>In this setting, all contracts are sealed with magic >If

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Nah OP, sounds boring. Lets play pirates instead!

That sounds fucking boring op.

Boring. Let's play mutants and Masterminds instead.

>>48680669
This is stupid

>>48680669
>Always wear my helmet
>Claim it's part of a contract
Blam! Done. I also have an excuse not to not be wearing armor to avoid dickass GM's.

>>48680669
Honor is for nitwits and idiots.

>>48680669
I don't really like this idea. So you use this magic for contracts - how large an agreement does it have to be? Do I have to call the paladin if I want to borrow stablehand Joe's horse for a couple weeks to take a journey into town? And if I come back late because of flooding, is it fair to get automatically branded - I am breaking the contract knowingly, but it's because of something outside of my control.

On top of this, if a paladin is supposed to judge all contracts, who the hell judges a paladin? Because to be marked, the paladin would have had to have been under a contract. So you set up paladins as some super law man, and then you gotta put a super duper law man to explain how come my super law man isn't above the rules.

>>48681418
OP didn't say paladins cast the contract magic, just that they settle disputes, such as when the brand hasn't activated on either party (because no one knowingly broke the deal) but at least one says the contract was fucked over.

Signing a contract could be as easy as writing it down and both of you putting your blood on it.

>>48681481
But the paladins judge the contracts, and the circumstances and intent of why they were broken. Why waste expensive magic on a contract that a paladin won't be there to judge for the making of, if it's a contract that's definitely unfair and any marking would have to be annulled?

>>48681593
>assuming the magic is more expensive than a lawyer
>assuming the unfairness of the contract was apparent when it was made

You know what they say about assuming, don't you?

If you see a "problem" why are you making something bad out of it, rather than something interesting?

>>48681641

Because it's still fucking stupid. If the spell is smart enough to adjudicate the contract, the paladins are unnecessary. If the paladins are necessary then the spell isn't doing its job.

There is something fucking wrong with you if you look at a turd and think "but how can I make this delicious" instead of just eating something else.

>>48680669
>All the paladins are bought off by wealthy landlords
>Or killed by armies of mercenaries hired by said landlords
>Or the paladins are corrupted naturally by the power they hold over society
>And start running a protection racket, get rich, and become wealthy landlords themselves
>Feudalism ensues
>Was your contract unfair?
>Too bad, no-one cares
>Enjoy your mark, you honourless peasant

>>48684669
I agree with you anon.

Should be only contracts overseen by the pallys. Another Pally (pally 2) adjudicates any contract between pally 1 and another party.

Paladins therefore are called on to adjudicate the contracts that they preside over.

If a paladin is knowingly unfair (judged by said god of justice or whatever) then they get marked - this is how said op paladin was marked he knowingly ruled against another party to save some Bullshit chick from being sold into slavery or something.

>>48681418
>And if I come back late because of flooding, is it fair to get automatically branded - I am breaking the contract knowingly, but it's because of something outside of my control.

Yes, you get branded. A true capitalist ubermensch would've known beforehand that their road might be blocked by flooding, and would have planned ahead to avoid the delay. This goes for any possible setback that could ever possibly happen - you should've foreseen it and planned around it, no matter how unexpected the setback or how limited your resources.

And now because of this one mistake, the rest of your life will now be infinitely harder, if not ruined entirely. And it's all your fault (even if it proveably isn't).

>Why yes, this system is fucking retarded - that's anarcho-capitalism in a nutshell.

>>48680669
Go away

>>48684742
>If a paladin is knowingly unfair (judged by said god of justice or whatever) then they get marked

Then this isn't anarcho-capitalism. Anarcho-capitalism demands that there be no overarching authority regulating business transactions. But this whole paladin system is a divinely-mandated regulatory body.

This is just regular old capitalism, held in check by an all-powerful police force. A police force which, by virtue of holding a monopoly on legitimate usage of force, make up a de facto government.

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>>48680669

>A large group of honorless mass together wearing body-concealing outfits to prevent themselves from being pre-judged, eventually forming their own civilizations. They are known as thieves and treated with constant suspicion.