>While traveling in a foreign land, you find yourselves caught in the midst of a battle between peasants and knights.
>The knights are overwhelmed by the numbers of peasants and are defeated.
>You soon learn these aren't just angry peasants, but a small group of ragtag militia who claim to be part of a larger rebellion
>They say they are tired of the monarchy, and want to start a new system in which the people collectively decide who their leader will be, not by birthright.
How do you handle these radical anarchists?
Ask them their reasons for being tired of the monarchy
>>46766093
What any person in their right mind would do.
Join them.
>>46766133
>Taxes
>Don't want to be told what to do by someone they don't even know.
>>46766167
Ask them if they understand what taxes are for and what a monarch does. Also what their future plan is.
>>46766167
"Uh, yeah, about that...
...you know what, have fun with it. I'm sure it'll all work out juuust fine."
>>46766093
I break out the togas and start shouting about republicanism.
>>46766201
>>46766213
>The crowd goes quiet, with the occasional mumbling of "muh...muh freedoms."
Present them my latest invention: Madame Guillotine.
>>46766239
But what is freedom?
>>46766093
>foreign politics
Not my concern.
So long as they leave me alone, I fail to care.
>>46766269
When we are slaves only to our own whims.
>>46766285
That's the thing. They won't leave you alone forever. They'll eventually come to you with their steel ships and point steel barrels at your castle and say they'll blow it down if you don't agree to allow trade.
I introduce them to the concept of the group fund whereby we pool resources in order to be able to afford things better than any one of us could on our own. Also I hold onto the group fund. Also to get into the group fund you have to pay the entry fee. Also interest is charged for holding onto the group fund.
>>46766336
Being a jew doesn't solve anything.
>>46766093
Keep walking, I don't have a dog in this fight.
There's probably a young prince/princess in this kingdom who is really upset that the people don't like them. They need comforting.
>>46766351
Who said I'm trying to solve anything? I'm just trying to be a jew.
>>46766093
LONG LIVE THE KING, MOTHERFUCKERS
>>46766364
Use your powers for good.
>>46766405
My powers are for good.
The good of God's chosen people.
Everyone should hold the key to their own destiny, but the land will not be safe in the hands of uneducated and unqualified mob rule.
I tell the peasants to stand down or get ran down.
Start looting on the sly and make my way out of the country while picking the battlegrounds over for choice loot.
Sell it all abroad and live in quiet isolation while I plan my next move.
>>46766459
>Everyone should hold the key to their own destiny, but the land will not be safe in the hands of uneducated and unqualified mob rule.
You're going to need to expand on this.
>>46766518
"On some level I realize democracy is dumb, but I'm too brainwashed to admit this."
>>46766601
But how do you get the influence to even begin any of that?
>>46766601
Shhhhh!! Do you want the goyim to know about our plans?!
>>46766093
I don't, I just leave the land as fast as I can.
I do nothing since it's not my country, I would gain nothing from that struggle, and I don't hvae all the data necessary to make a choice.
>>46766258
Technically, the guillotine was invented by Mr. Louis, refined by Mr. Schmidt (dat curved blade).
Mr. Guillotin is unrelated, he just wanted identical capital punishment for the nobles and the common men (before that, some were beheaded by sword, some hanged, depending on their social class).
>>46766641
You're a fucking murderhobo anon. Strong-arm, seduce rolls, charisma, spells, stealing, blackmail
Be creativegoyim
>>46766093
Kill them all with extreme prejudice.
Peasant scum should know their place.
>>46766357
This guy gets it.
There are lots of young girl and women who need comforting in a time such as this.
>>46766718
Peasants did nothing wrong, they just want to live a comfy life by themselves.
Go full on ISIS with them except instead of Islam it's literally just peasant farming life. Release tapestries to the public depicting us executing royals in creatively horrible ways. Destroy buildings and physical representations of the monarchy.
>>46766518
Essentially: democracy is great but it would be a terrible idea to let a mob of unruly peasants run the country. Elections from within the noble blooded elite would be a better first step.
>>46766741
If god had wanted them to live comfy lives then he wouldn't have made them peasants in the first place.
>>46766743
The Peasant Farming Life book is much less harsh than what ISIS read though. It's simple and straight forward and doesn't generally involve other people.
>>46766791
No that's the point. We make it as harsh as ISIS doctrine.
>>46766782
God didn't do anything. The peasants decided they wanted to be peasants themselves. They could just as easily become something else if they wanted, except they have no desire to do so.
>>46766843
And why do you think they have no desire for anything else?
Because god has not given them this desire since they are meant to be peasants.
>>46766093
Wish them luck with all the sincerity I can muster even thought they're all going to die.
No sense in causing a fight though so I'll just slip away and leave the idiots to it.
>>46766093
Well, I use them to get me the throne and than betray them. Because that is how royal dynasties are made.
>>46766239
DON'T TREAD ON ME MOTHERFUCKER
>>46766865
Why has God given them such a fate?
>>46766918
>God
>Giving fate
That smells like some kind of heterodoxy
>>46766918
Because men suffer through their mortals lives in order to achieve happiness in paradise after death.
>>46766952
Therefore it's okay for the King and Nobles to do whatever they want to the peasants and they have no choice but to take it because the suffering will allow them to achieve happiness in paradise after death? Is the amount of suffering in mortal life proportional to the happiness in paradise?
>>46767018
Well, not really. Kings and Nobles have their own divine responsibilities.
>>46766093
WHAT!? Rebelling against your divinely mandated autarch is tantamount to heresy! An insult to the divine law! It's like trying to rebel against the change of seasons or the moon cycle. Go back to your hovels, repent and maybe you will be spared.
>>46766093
Work to bring an end to the rebellion. Doing this will ingratiate us (I assume an adventuring party,) and from this, we will push for a less autocratic system.
>>46766310
not him, but my response would be
"Fine, let's start by trading bullets. FIRE!"
>>46766582
>democracy is dumb
So you'd rather bow down to some power-tripping monarch like a subservient little bitch? Democracy is the best system we've come up with, and it's a shame that no country's government actually uses it.
>Pro-tip, Murica is not a democracy
>>46766269
Its what plants crave
>>46767348
>Pro-tip, true democracy in an nation scale is as much of an utopia at this point as communism.
Every citizens should know and talk about each laws and decision for days, and have basic or extended knowledge of the legal system.
And they should own slaves in order to do the manual labors ; after all, these sessions takes times, no ?
Fail to see the problem ?
>HURR DURR NOBLES ARE ASSHOLES 100% OF THE TIME JUST LIKE IN MY GoT BOOKS
>HERP DERP THEY JUST WANT TO TAKE MUH FREEDUMBS
I want these memes to die slow, agonizing death. Actually fucking read a history book if you want to discuss the merits of different systems.
>>46767018
>Therefore it's okay for the King and Nobles to do whatever they want to the peasants
NO, YOU ABSOLUTE NIGGER. YOU KNOW THAT NOBLES ACTUALLY HAD ACTUAL RESPONSIBILITIES, LIKE PROTECTING PEOPLE, OR MAKING SURE THEY DON'T STARVE, BECAUSE, SURPRISE SURPRISE, IF YOUR PEASANTS STARVE YOU STARVE TOO, YOU DONT JUST EXIST IN ASSHOLE VACCUUM LIKE SOME SHITTY ASOIAF CHARACTER? DID A THOUGHT CROSS YOUR PEA-SIZED BRAIN THAT MONARCHY EXISTED FOR SO LONG BECAUSE IT WORKED? SURE, IT WASN'T PERFECT, BUT IT WORKED, AND NOBLES WEREN'T MUSTACHE-TWIRLING RETARDS LOUDLY FANTACIZING ABOUT HOW THEY'RE GONNA SHIT ON -ALL THE PEASANTS-.
LIKE, OKAY, I KNOW THAT DEMOCRACY IS THE BEST WE'VE CURRENTLY GOT, BUT DON"T YOU CUNTMUNCHERS SAY THAT EVERYTHING BEFORE WAS COMPLETELY AND IRREVOCABLY TERRIBLE BECAUSE YOU ONLY READ SOME SMUG LIBERTARIAN'S SHITTY FANTASY NOVEL.
>>46767348
>So you'd rather bow down to some power-tripping monarch like a subservient little bitch?
>Implying thats not what you're doing in democracy anyway, just after a sham election where your votes don't actually matter, only lobbyist groups.
>>46768482
>I want these memes to die slow, agonizing death.
They're not though.
Everybody who wasn't a dirty inbred peasant is automatically worse than Satan according to modern perception.
>>46768482
Shhhh, calm down.
It's just memes.
>>46766093
Run them down.
Then berate their broken bodies for muddying my palfrey's hooves.
>>46766093
i dont negotiate with terrorists
>>46768394
They should, but they don't.
>>46766517
>Mount & Blade intensifies
>>46772320
Ah yes, dat armour, I too am a Swadiafag
>>46766093
sure
as long as i get a piece of the action
>>46766093
So they're forming an anarcho-syndical commune?
>>46766093
Kill them, collect loot, reward and glory.
>>46766093
I dunno, leave them to it?
Nothing about my Good alignment says I gotta get invoked in local political disputes about what type of government is best.
>>46766093
>>46766167
>>46766239
Tell them I'm a stranger in their country but I may be able to help them by giving the monarchy and their army false information regarding locations of the peasants and the number of their forces.
Then I head to the monarchy and sell out the peasants for a price
