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* Plenty of players in a wide range of RPG games will take for granted that they can carry their swords/bows/guns/staffs of power anywhere without hindrance, including bars, temples and audiences with the king. Just have an NPC ask them to leave their weapons behind, and they'll react with fear, suspicion and outrage. Then they'll usually try to conceal the weapons somehow, or develop elaborate tactics to reach their weapons just in case the pacifistic church where no one is allowed to carry a weapon happens to be full of armed soldiers.
* [[Dungeons and Dragons]] traditionally doesn't even bother. In most settings you'll see palaces and places with [[Truce Zone]] rules having "check on entry" rule, but that's all. It doesn't help that few authors remember that there are differences between poleaxes and sidearms.
** [[Forgotten Realms]] has many political entities, from minor city-states to Cormyr, that exercise "peace bonding" tradition: carrying sidearms is allowed almost anywhere, but one must check each weapon on entry and have it tied to stay in the sheath (or wherever it's carried) with a ribbon using an elaborate knot. This doesn't hinder self-defense much, but gives the hot-headed a chance to remember where they are, or at least helps the local enforcement to see who had steel out and who didn't later (accurately tying a non-trivial knot
*** Of course, ''practically'' both peace-bonding and "check at the door" rule are mostly about demonstration of peaceful intent and preventing violent escalations, so "[http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3684&whichpage=72#107621 everyone hands over their largest, most awkward weapon, and openly goes on carrying other weaponry]". Full "no steel" policy only appears in few small high-security areas or as a temporary measure if there were too many brawls gone too bad. In part because there's magic anyway, in part because if things like belt knives count, [[Everyone Is Armed]], so it's too much of bother for everybody involved.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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