GURPS: Church and State Society and Status

Status in Church and State

To be entrusted with missions, responsibility, or just to be allowed to keep the loot you get, you need status, as well as the right to bear arms outside of warfare. Status is limited to 2 max as there are only a small handful of Status 3 people in the Barony, like maybe 12, but maybe a thousand status 2. Of those with the same status, the higher listed position outranks the lower. To get status, one must have a social obligation to a person or institution.

• 8 Emperor Imperial Majesty
• 7 Imperial Consort or Heir, or King
• 6 Prince/Princess
• 6 Duke/Duchess
• 5 Marquess/Marchioness
• 5 Earl or Count/Countess
• 4 Viscount/Viscountess
• 4 Senior Baron/Baroness
• 3 Lesser Baron/Baroness
• 3 Landed Knight/Dame
• 3 Governor/Mayor (varies between 2-4 depending on the town, Rotbrueck's burgermeister is 3, while Chalouth's is a 4)
• 3 Guildmaster/Guildmistress Master/Mistress
• 2 Unlanded Knight/ Dame
• 2 Captain
• 2 Men at Arms
• 2 Craftsman (master)
• 1 Squire
• 1 sergeant at arms, and lower men-at-arms
• 1 Craftsman (journeyman), Merchant –
• 0 Villein, Townsman, common soldier
• -1 Serf, Urban Rogue (by reputation only), mustered peasant militia
• -2 Beggar, Slave, known criminal

Persons of Status

• (4)The Baron, His Lordship, Paul "The Hammer" Raudidge, the Baron of Rotbrueck, and the Baron of Whiterock.
• (3)The Baroness Iris (deceased)
• (3)Bishop of Rotbrueck and Lord Chaplain to Rotbrueck, The Right Reverend Bishop, His Excellency, Garth Raudidge, younger brother of Rotbrueck
• The Abbess of St Livian's, The Right Mother Superior, Reverend Mother Charlotte Raudidge, an aunt of Rotbrueck
• Bishop of Whiterock, The Right Reverend Bishop, His Excellency Francis of Gwyndal, a non-Maguirian
• The Abbot of St Adolphus, The Right Reverend Father, Reverend Father Marcus Taulburg, a non-Maguirian
• Sir Lazcus Weisfeld (of House Raudidge), lord of Stone Dale and a great uncle to Rotbrueck.

Money

Money is rated throughout the Central Kingdoms as: Copper Farthing (1) Silver Penny (4) Gold Crown (200) Silver Pound (1000)

Imperial Lands use similar denominations, but different: Copper Penny (1) Silver Shilling (4) Gold Mark (150) Talent (1000)

Coins of the Canton of the Grey Watch are very pure, reliable, and often physically large. They include the small copper khenn ($1), the copper dann ($12), the silver ffo ($144), and the gold tohn ($5,184). However, Grey Watch coins are extremely rare outside of the Canton; a Cantonite who pays a non-Cantonite in danns, let alone ffo, is showing great respect.

GURPS: Church and State