Cases Please
Added 2024-04-16 20:38:21 +0000 UTCHeya! Bailiff Jake here to let you know that a very special panel of Supreme Crit justices will be convening this week! Please submit your brief (I beg!) case on this thread and we will bring you very special justice.
Update! - If you've got any cases related to Magic and YuGiOh we will try those as well!
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Honorable Justices: I would like to present the case of the Deer/Ent. The party and myself are relatively new players, currently lvl 2 characters, and have somehow found ourselves in an overrun elven town. Survivors have collected into one of the tree-like buildings and we have been tasked with protecting them. A hoard of undead are on the attack lead by this cannibalistic deer creature out DM came up with. As we're defending the Survivors, the Deer charges at the tree in attempts to knock it down. As we're dealing with hoard, and deer, suddenly there were rat assassins coming from the tree tops? Anyways, we manage to kill the deer and the majority of the hoard, as our DM suddenly shapeshifts this deer into a tree ent and successfully knocks the tree over as a second hoard comes rushing out. I'm not super familiar with D&D, but I know each DM runs things a bit differently. Is this unfair to newbies or is this something I should come to expect? Ps: I'm not the only player who thinks the DM is on a power trip...
Sara Morello
2024-05-10 17:16:13 +0000 UTCTo the Honorable Court Justices along with the handsome and capable bailiff Jake: May it please the court, I present the The 2nd Case of Forced Multiclass. I DM a 5e homebrew scifi game that's been running for over two years. My running policy is that I heavily reward player engagement with their characters, the party, and the setting. One player in particular, the bard, had gone above and beyond many times. They had drawn fanart of her own characters and those of the other players, written a detailed and heartfelt backstory, and we're generally a pleasure to DM for. When it came time for the gang to level up, I decreed that the bard would gain TWO levels, as reward for their service. One level would be of their choosing. (Bard) and one would be in Warlock, with their patron being the ghost of their deceased and estranged mother, who's soul had been trapped in a crystal and then shoved into the character's eye for plot reasons. The player, and the table in general, seemed pleased with this turn of events. I only began to feel unsure about my choice when the Honorable Justices ruled against a DM some time ago who had forced a paladin level on a druid during their deliberations on a previous case. Did I give my bard a fun treat that explored their backstory, or have I taken away a key part of player agency? I thow myself on the mercy of the court, and await your judgement. P.S. Just kidding about the bailiff being handsome and capable. You're a little worm. Also I don't play DnD and hate this show.
Dirt Person
2024-05-03 13:12:22 +0000 UTCTo The Hono(u)rable Justices Murphy, Axford, Tanner and the low-priority bailiff/friend Jake (I'm a big fan, please chill), I'm from Australia and once a fortnight I play with my coworkers in the office after work (which is legit fine, you can trust me). I play an insecure smartass perfectionist Paladin named Atlas Poosey, who fled from the convent at a young age when he caught his girlfriend Fiona cheating on him. Anyway we're about half a dozen sessions in, and we ran into Atlas' now ex Fiona praying at the Shrine of Luck in Phandalin. Because my character is a vengeful piece of shit (think comic relief Joffrey but smarter and a bit more pathetic), he cast the Command spell at his ex girlfriend, with the command being "Shit!". I was unseen by Fiona and the shrine was mostly empty. I explained to my DM that my character would yell "Shit!" as he pretended to trip on the uneven ground - so I'd be happy to make a performance check on top of the Command spell to avoid being noticed by any townspeople. I rolled a nat 20 on the Command and passed the performance check - so naturally, Fiona indeed shat herself. But my DM said that her god whispered a punishment in my ear and gave me disadvantage on all skills and ability checks for 3 days (basically 3 sessions - 6 weeks in the real world). This seems a little harsh because of the nat20 and this interaction being mostly flavour. Am I wrong for poking the bear or is my DM salty that I told my ex to shit herself and she did it? Our people need to know.
Mario
2024-04-21 16:51:03 +0000 UTCTo the ardent, argent arbiters of RPG justice, and to the abiding, awesome, admirable Jake (sometimes you need a win and I got your back brother), may it please the court, I present to you the case of the Dungeon Dress code. I have been playing with a group that I met online for about two years now. We started in a Stars Without Numbers game, where I played a character that I would describe as a shredded himbo LA yoga bro who talked to the universe and tried to shepherd people into their best possible future. He had a unique appearance that included color and shape changing tattoos, which were a tradition of a recording his journey. In cyberpunk fashion he mostly played shirtless with a bomber jacket as his tattoos were supposed to be proudly put on display. Space Himbo ended up being a table favorite as he was everyone's spiritual advisor. He died in that campaign, which ended the game when the GM proudly admitted he bent the rules to kill him as a punishment for the party foiling too many of his combats. When we found a Star Wars game (different GM), everyone encouraged me to reprise him. I played him pretty much the same, trading his jacket for a hooded Jedi poncho. But the second I brought up that he was also tattooed and not wearing a shirt underneath, the players began telling me it was weird because Jedi were not 'shirtless himbo bros'. I admit that there's very little himbo-dom in Star Wars , but the era we were playing was the High Republic, which was thousands of years prior to the movies countless cultures intersected over the Jedi. I thought it was just harmless flavor, but my friends think I should just put a shirt on him and just be a normal. The GM has had no problems with my character's appearance. I throw myself upon your mercy, beknighted and beshirted in the most professional looking suit you can imagine in defense of Space Himbo and his right to bare arms, but I shall abide by your decision: should I put my character in normal Jedi robes, or is it a case of suns out guns out as in space there's always a sunrise around the next planetary system?
tarvis frogfriend
2024-04-21 08:17:12 +0000 UTC
