Make the same deed legal in one province and a crime in the next

Carrying a certain herb is fine in the hills, taxed in the valley and punished at the capital, and the player should be able to learn that by travelling. Here is a tidy way to set the laws once per land, let provinces inherit them, and check what the guards take at a border.

Why this works

People expect rules to belong to a place and to be inherited from the larger one. Writing each rule once at the right level, and letting a smaller area override it on purpose, keeps the world consistent and the lookup the same everywhere.

When not to use it

Skip it when the law is about the person, not the place, such as a wanted poster or a sworn oath that follows the hero everywhere. Keep that on the character, and use places only for what changes by location.

In the full entry

• What to build, step by step
• Starting values and the reason for each
• 4 common mistakes and the fix
• A diagram of every state
• 23 lines of example code with 3 checks that pass
• How your AI shows you that it works

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Use the Spielerando entry "Make the same deed legal in one province and a crime in the next" (read_entry same-deed-different-law-by-region) in my game. Build it step by step, and show me how you checked that it works.

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