[DitV] Non-pathetic Stewards
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There's so many ways to play this. A competent steward and a group of Dogs have so many, many places where they might disagree. I know the game doesn't place any judgement above the Dogs. But, let's face it, they tend to do some pretty brutal shit. A competent Steward can give voice to all the doubts the players themselves have about the rightness of the Dog's choices. Things like "Did you really need to shoot her to save her soul? Doesn't the King dispense mercy as well as justice?" or "Brother Jacob may have turned to alchohol and lost his way. But it was only because his wife and baby girl took sick and died." Oh, and he can quote scripture right back at the Dogs, accusing them of all sorts of prideful behavior by alluding to the Good Book.
Neil the Wimp:
Thanks for the replies, and the comments on what a Steward can do.
I'd like to follow up the latter. What can/should a Steward do, if he knows one of his parishioners is about to commit a crime/sin? For instance, the father in one of his town's families regularly severely beats his children: it's only a matter of time before he ends up killing one of them. Or another person is openly engaging in false worship and sorcery. In both cases, no-one outside the family concerned is involved, so it's not a matter for the Dogs, and the Steward has tried to make the sinner change his ways, to no avail.
In these cases, what should the Steward do? Tolerating it means turning a blind eye to sin. Persuasion hasn't worked. What's next?
Neil.
Paul T:
What's next? Calling in some Dogs comes to mind...
Neil the Wimp:
Yes, but assuming, for the sake of argument, that the problems are restricted to one family. As the problems don't spill over into the congregation as a whole, the Dogs have no stewardship over the problem. Dealing with the problem is purely down to the Branch Steward. I'm interested in what he can do, beyond words and understanding, to either head off a sin/crime being committed, or to make a sinner change their ways.
Shawn I.:
The Steward is a moral authority figure. "Brother Jeb, the King of Life has told me, as your steward, that you are sinning." That's got some weight behind it. Someone can ignore it, though - "Nope, King of Life told me that I'm doing just fine." There's probably some Pride there.
The Steward is a social authority figure. "Brothers and Sisters of the Branch, Brother Jeb here has chosen to continue to sin. We should hold him in our hearts, and pray for him that he sees the error of his ways." The Steward can command tremendous social pressure on someone in the community. Imagine everyone in town stopping to loudly pray over you as you pass in the street, and every sermon is on your personal failings. Pretty heavy handed. If it works, then the Steward got everything working again using the judgmental pressure cooker of small-town dynamics. If it fails... then you've got a town that is tearing itself apart because a Steward was using every tool he had to force someone to stop sinning.
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