Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
Great in theory, impossible in practice. The problem is that it's unenforcible. The only way to get this to work is if there is some penalty for challenging without permission. The only penalty we can enforce is lynching, and if we have to lynch people based exclusively on challenging without permission, we have to ignore all other reasons for lynching. This kind of control was attempted in Midgard II and failed for that very reason.
I don't quite understand your reasoning. If our Lord decrees that uncontrolled duels are prohibited, then those who challenge without permission are clearly disloyal towards our Lord and should be forced to commit seppuku. The goal of everyone here is to survive, even for the traitors among us and challenging without permission of our Lord is in conflict with that goal as it would bring a lot of suspicion on the challenger, so if we do enforce it with lynching the culprit, uncontrolled duels will end very quickly.