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| ParanoidObsessive 02/22/18 8:52:14 AM #216: | Oh, and on the topic of RPish stuff, here's a general throwaway question: If you were designing a character for a game who was basically a sort of judge who is empowered to travel the land dispensing justice and legal pronouncements that are completely binding, what would you call that person? I'm trying to think of an actual historical version of that - and I can't shake the feeling that there absolutely is one and I'm just not remembering it - but the only thing that's coming to mind at all are the Magistrates in Legend of the Five Rings. But "Magistrate", while a cool term in itself, is historically almost always applied to judges, lawgivers, and administrators who are linked to a specific locality, similar to a modern judge, and not wandering purveyors of justice who are essentially police, judge, jury, and executioner rolled into one. (The Judges in FFXII are also sort of flitting to mind, but I'm blocking them out because FFXII is terrible.) --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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