D&D Court: Bonus Cases - Duck Family Tree
Added 2023-09-29 17:24:53 +0000 UTCDungeon Court is STILL in session! Join hot brunch entrepreneurs Murphy, Tanner, Axford and the skater waiter Bailiff Jake as they continue to pass judgement on your trials at the table!
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Be aware this episode does not appear in the D&D court collection.
JMuskratArts
2024-01-19 16:26:01 +0000 UTCJust a heads up - this one isn't in the D&D Court collection currently.
Matt Davis
2024-01-03 20:23:33 +0000 UTCOh my gosh as a KC Cheifs fan and a Swifty hereing Caldwell shout out Taylor watching you throw the football is so exciting.
Parker Doole
2023-10-23 19:40:31 +0000 UTCTo the Cursed Foundry player, while you can't pitch cursed digital dice across the room, you can go into the Foundry settings and change your dice outline, text, texture, color, etc and do a symbolic pitch. It's worked for me before
Smitty
2023-10-11 00:03:08 +0000 UTCI completely agree with this, it wasn’t mentioned here but every game i’ve ever played in has had risk of being made to fall as a result of taking damage while holding on to something. By the same logic if you can get hurt enough to have to let go couldn’t you just stop actively putting that effort in (concentrating) and fall down? The argument for “not a written reaction so it becomes a slippery slope” is completely true and understandable but if i were dming in a way where i could shoot my players off a cliff i would also allow them to just let go if not as a free action (like ending concentration) as a reaction at least
hey
2023-10-09 22:54:15 +0000 UTCIf you listened to the argument - no because its a slippery slope of "unless you have a mechanic for a reaction to do so, you cant do it". You can tell your dm all day that you can kill someone in one hit with a headshot (and in reality you could), but thats not dnd. You gotta roll to hit and do damage. Its just the rules
Mason Hogle
2023-10-09 13:28:30 +0000 UTCokay about the letting go not being allowed off your turn, isn’t concentration allowed to be done any time not on your turn so if you’re concentrating on holding on couldn’t you just stop? especially if being shot would cause you to fall anyway, a la being hurt would cause you to lose concentration???
Max!
2023-10-07 19:09:41 +0000 UTC“Taylor’s watching” god I love caldwell 😂😂 the energy in this is wild
Kenzi Perkins
2023-10-06 03:58:06 +0000 UTCAbout the Anchorman one shot: I think a fun compromise would have been for Brian Fontaine to die. Then as his character is dying, Brian's twin brother Ryan ( having been left a note that Brian would be late for drinks and where he woul be instead) shows up to the location in time to cradle his brother for his last words and inherits Sex Panther. Player then plays the game as Ryan to avenger his brother with the same character sheet. Feels like something that would happen in the Anchorman movies but still have character death without having to make a new character sheet.
Matthew Cagle
2023-10-05 18:03:33 +0000 UTCI'll say in the last case/confession that digital dice are not truly random. Digitizing randomness is really difficult so there are only best approximation of randomness. It's possible however foundry was having some sort of error that wasn't allowing it to consider numbers over 5. I motion that digital dice are inherently not true dice, only approximations and in times of doubt a real physical dice should be used for transparency.
tonytheoneandonly
2023-10-05 03:00:53 +0000 UTCI have to say, Brennan is pretty woke and that movie is very much not...
Dr. Bearkele
2023-10-04 05:07:22 +0000 UTCYou have my sword, my bow, and my axe in this battle. Funny in 2004, pretty awful by today's standards
Dr. Bearkele
2023-10-04 05:03:54 +0000 UTCI feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
Dr. Bearkele
2023-10-04 05:02:22 +0000 UTCHow do all dice hate me then, digital and IRL? - the Dice Christ apostate 😅 (seriously, I play Strahd with a friend who is also cursed and I think we both hit once in a 7-round combat, this is my life and it is hell)
Dr. Bearkele
2023-10-04 05:00:31 +0000 UTCThis is amazing =D
Dr. Bearkele
2023-10-04 04:58:24 +0000 UTCRunning that was my first experience as a GM! Very fun and easy for people to get into character. I had one player who rolled a toad whose spell was cleaning, so they had a good time spending the session complaining about their sentience and how awakened life sucks when all you can do is clean x)
Dr. Bearkele
2023-10-04 04:56:49 +0000 UTCI am fully with you. I tried to do a rewarch recently and I was just like... wow this moving hinges all its hilarity on sexism, randomness, and making fun of a disabled guy. 100% does not hold up (though it was funny to be like..."oh shit, that's where that line got famous" about two thousand times, haha)
Dr. Bearkele
2023-10-04 04:54:52 +0000 UTCI recently rewatched anchorman bc it keeps coming up on the short rest and all i can say is Murph is right. Shit just doesn't hit like it did 19 years ago. And yes, anchorman is 19 year old now. I feel old too lol.
Morgan Croft
2023-10-03 12:29:15 +0000 UTCWhat Emily suggested is a saw trap for character sheets. Hello players, I want to play a game. In the past, you have treated the matters of life and death, as though they were a children’s plaything, ignoring them when they no longer seem fun to you. But I guarantee you the rules of life and death are very very serious. You’ll notice your character sheets are hooked up to fishing wire. If you drop down to zero, HP, your character sheet will be hung by the ceiling. If you fail your three death saves, your character sheet will be dropped into a flaming pit below. Make your choice.
Pagos, Self-Proclaimed Fae King, asking you to watch The Disruptors. Starring Ally Beardsley and Grant O’Brien
2023-10-02 17:34:27 +0000 UTCI have nm embarrassing confession that I was confused about emily's confusion about the duck tales brothers because I remember her many episodes talking fondly of the mighty ducks movie and in my mind I thought mighty ducks was a duck tales spin off movie and I have thought that my whole life
Egg
2023-10-02 16:59:30 +0000 UTCForgive me, honorable Justices and sub-honorable bailiff, but I think you're wrong. I've never fully disagreed with a unanimous ruling before. The player just wanted to *let go* of the cliff. No movement, no pushing off, no object interaction. Just release their grip. I think this is just a more physical version of maintaining concentration on a spell. RAW, you can drop concentration anytime, no action required. So just "drop concentration" on your grip. This was just a unique 1 in 1000 situation where simply releasing your grip is actually useful to avoid getting wrecked. Whether it ends up helping the player depends on whether or not they were surprised and how close the attackers were when they started their turns.
Candelario -Candyman- Ramirez III
2023-10-02 15:40:38 +0000 UTCAh, D&D court. The only show where a pc can steal someone's entire crossbow from their back with a free sleight of hand check but a monster can't slash off someone's clothes with two whole attacks.
Gearbox
2023-10-02 14:29:47 +0000 UTCI just need everyone to know I really was obsessed with the mcduck family tree when I was a kid and this was one of the moments where I really wished I could be on this show
Noah James Perito
2023-10-02 09:36:23 +0000 UTCHow DARE YOU say that you hate the Anchorman movies, Brian. How dare you...
Sean
2023-10-01 20:23:07 +0000 UTCPhew, caught up just in time for the New York show on Saturday. Coming over from England to see it, looking forward to it!
Brokennoodles
2023-10-01 16:33:39 +0000 UTCI was looking for this comment, lowest level spell for real sunlight is 5th and that’s if you’re using xanathar’s
mumbo
2023-10-01 16:29:59 +0000 UTCMurph’s HATRED of one of the greatest films of our time (Anchorman) truly knows no bounds
Rickety Cricket
2023-10-01 13:30:03 +0000 UTCThere's no oil in Scotland? *looks at the North Sea oil reserves*
Lovecraftian
2023-10-01 09:40:51 +0000 UTCthat rule is clearly to indicate you can't talk to humans, not that you can't talk to each other
EmperorGreed
2023-10-01 00:46:43 +0000 UTCI was curious about that game "The witch is dead" they were playing and I found a PDF of it. It is a one page small game a la Honey Heist. The language barrier thing is the very last sentence. Definitely a weird rule though.
Alexander Gillis
2023-09-30 20:13:21 +0000 UTCNevermind being able to rip pants off, Daylight doesn't actually count as 'Day' light. It should just be called Bright Light.
Allen S
2023-09-30 19:17:13 +0000 UTCFor the dice Christ confessional, I want to say that my group also uses foundry, and there was a session where our rougue ould only crit. Both failures and successes. After about an hour into the session our DM had her role 20 times in a row. And she only rolled ones and 20s, but definitely way more ones than twenties. We ended up having her refresh her page. And we all loved out and loved back in. And then everything worked fine. I just wanted to let you know that there ARE glitches in "randomized" computer rolls.
MaryKathryn Overstreet
2023-09-30 16:21:29 +0000 UTCThis episode left me in a glass cage of emotion, you guys missed the mark here😓
Mitchell Kilgour
2023-09-30 15:03:59 +0000 UTCMaybe this is desperate terrible roller conspiracy theorizing but I also rolled 5 nat 1s in a row on Foundry!! It’s during my character’s arc too. Using this as evidence to my dm
tacticalgrandma
2023-09-30 14:50:45 +0000 UTCWhen my oldest was 8 he made my wife a salad to eat. When my wife took a bite it was hot. My son heated it up in the microwave. Said "I wanted the cheese to melt."
Eric Keller
2023-09-30 13:28:53 +0000 UTCYeah they literally read the spell description out loud and miss that xD
Ian juarez
2023-09-30 11:46:07 +0000 UTCTo the last writer with the cursed dice on Foundry - computers can't do perfectly random. They can get close, but if you analyze random rolls long enough, there will be a pattern. The only real way to get random is to roll your shiny math rocks. I'm waiting for a kickstarter developing physical dice that can send your rolls via Bluetooth to your computer, and they're even working on Foundry integration. It won't be open for pre-orders til December, but I suggest you check them out at least: https://gamewithpixels.com
Nathan Wilson
2023-09-30 04:56:58 +0000 UTCThe Daylight should never have been allowed to have been cast in the pants at all, it specifies you can't use it on things being worn or carried, only an object you are holding in your hands, so you don't run into this exact situation
Verdigree
2023-09-30 04:44:15 +0000 UTCAnchorman 🫲🏾👈🏾 (4 life) They are the 🖐🏾 (4 horsemen) or you can 🙅🏾♂️ suck it Murph. JK more wrestling knowledge please.
Canid
2023-09-30 04:25:42 +0000 UTCDon’t let big anchor man and their legion of trolls intimidate you Murph! Stay strong brother!
Natural Dragon
2023-09-30 03:08:20 +0000 UTCI love lamp and I don't love Murph's anti-anchorman prejudice
Cameron A
2023-09-30 02:46:14 +0000 UTCThis is a mixed bag lol
Justin Cockrell
2023-09-30 02:29:00 +0000 UTCDaylight :" object that isn't worn or carried" y'all missed it!
Nick Lerche
2023-09-30 02:17:06 +0000 UTCI was expecting this duck hole to go way deeper. I'm surprised they didn't go into swamphole mcduck, or the duck that married a goose (I googled a picture I didn't know this off the dome, I'm not that cool)
Ilana Galpert
2023-09-30 01:03:45 +0000 UTCIn defense of the GM from The Witch is Dead: the rules say " you can talk to animals of the same or similar species." Still a dumb rule, but the first time GM may have been trying to play by the book and took it too literally.
Maureen Tuohey
2023-09-30 00:39:32 +0000 UTCSparking the controversy, anchor man wasn't funny, over quoted, and doesn't deserve the respect it gets. come at me!
preston packer
2023-09-29 23:53:03 +0000 UTCKept getting Good Will Hunting vibes on the first case deliberations: "it's not your turn. It's not your turn! ITS NOT YOUR TURN."
Nick Lerche
2023-09-29 23:28:17 +0000 UTCEmily asking the same question about "that escalated quickly" was so gosh darn psychedelic
Heavy Harry
2023-09-29 22:54:35 +0000 UTCMy face when they are talking about the daylight pants and just Glossing over the part where daylight says it cannot be cast on a worn item
William beachus
2023-09-29 22:27:13 +0000 UTCMurph I would like to personally thank you for once again standing up against the most annoying kind of white guy known to man
Crits
2023-09-29 22:07:52 +0000 UTCStupid fact: Scrooge McDuck was based off of Andrew Carnegie
jbyrd
2023-09-29 20:52:45 +0000 UTCNooo I wanted a full duck deep dive! Give it to us in the mixed bag!
Jack
2023-09-29 20:44:19 +0000 UTCScotland actually does have oil reserves! Most of Britain's North sea claims would go to them if they went independent.
ACK
2023-09-29 19:39:10 +0000 UTCYou can also drop prone at anytime, no action required, which I think could also be invoked here.
Pankkeli
2023-09-29 19:37:14 +0000 UTCAs a European who practically grew up on Donald Duck magazines, I am astonished at the ignorance on ducklore they have. Scrooge is a self-made man!
Pankkeli
2023-09-29 19:28:22 +0000 UTCWith the cliff fight, I’d compare it to grapple rules (you can release something you’re holding whenever, no action required). So unless the climber is under the surprised condition, or the bandits’ attacks were all readied action, I’d let the climber let go of the wall and drop
Anthony Spyropoulos
2023-09-29 19:00:27 +0000 UTCThe one shot the witch is dead specifies you can only talk to animals that are the same or similar species.
Sean Thompson
2023-09-29 18:50:31 +0000 UTCMurph you calling Anchorman just fine is insane. It is a great, funny movie and deserves to be quoted. Of course, someone who doesn't like fun in D&D would not find anchorman funny. Brennan the fun D&D dad would find that movie funny.
Andrew Yeager
2023-09-29 18:49:56 +0000 UTCPaul Rudd has eaten a burger king in a sauna so he may be good with hot brunch https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxXAiWu5weH-K8eUSAdlEiHqL2oTBKO04b?si=vg2e_2vvVD2V7QZY
Schafe
2023-09-29 18:29:57 +0000 UTCBut the D&D logic is that all the hits happen at the same time technically, so all of the hits land at basically the same time and then you fall. I think is the argument against
k.allen
2023-09-29 18:16:52 +0000 UTCBrian Fantana is probably a sorcerer lets be real
Colin Kilzer
2023-09-29 18:16:30 +0000 UTCI'm with Caldwell on the cliff fight, no way in hell are you clinging to a rockface after taking a hit
J E
2023-09-29 18:01:40 +0000 UTCIt all makes sense now... ~Caldwell
Not Another D&D Podcast
2023-09-29 17:52:43 +0000 UTCCaldwell: I don't think there's much oil in Scotland... Me, in Aberdeen: *blinks in North Sea Oil Field* (by which i mean, Uncle Scrooge could def be a Scottish oil baron. And also potentially an absentee highland landlord but that's a whole other canl of Scottish anti-capitalist worm-wives)
A Brain In A Bucket
2023-09-29 17:50:59 +0000 UTCQuack, quack, quack Mr. Ducksworth.
Canid
2023-09-29 17:42:35 +0000 UTCSweet blue duck
Charles Leon
2023-09-29 17:36:11 +0000 UTC
