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The beginning of a new Intelligence Check series of articles!
The laws of a given town, society, or country are usually part of the implicit background of a setting; understood to be there but rarely dealt with. That's a shame, since oftentimes the laws of a place can greatly showcase its nature and tone in the game world. In this series, we set out to provide a framework to help bring the vague and ill-defined laws of a place into sharper focus.
Part 1 focuses on how different alignments view the role of laws in society, who enforces and arbitrates the laws, the role of religion on the laws of this series, and a framework of categories for determining the severity of crimes.
Check it out here: Law of the Land, Part 1 - Lexicon of Legal Loquacity