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Cases Please! (Patreon)

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2024-06-13 15:16:11
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Hello citizens! Big Bailiff Jake here to let you know that the Supreme Crit is convening this very afternoon. Please submit your brief (I beg!) case on this thread and we will bring you sweet justice.

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thesorceress

To our most honorable justices and Jakes, I present to you the case of the murdered barkeeper. I, two party members, and our DM, have been having a friendly disagreement about a situation that occurred several years ago that we just call ‘The Bar Incident.’ Our party members at the time were a sorcerer, a Barbarian, and a bard and we were just stopping at an inn in the middle of nowhere. As we were leaving, our sorcerer thought it would be funny to scare the barkeep by illusioning the money we paid into spiders, in a country where most magic is illegal. This freaked the bartender out and he ran outside into our barbarian. Now the barbarian had something the player rolled for himself called confusion dice. It was basically a self imposed rule by this player where he rolled a dice which had question marks on it and if he rolled a question mark on it he didn’t understand the situation. So when he rolled the dice and got a question mark, he decided that running away meant he was a bad guy and murdered the bartender. After this my bard decided I needed to clean up this mess so I went around and Geased the patrons at the bar to walk away and not tell anyone what happened or die to the Geas I put on them. We wish the court to settle this dispute: which of our characters committed the worst crime? We await your punishment.

Alien butt puppet

To the Omniscient justices, and the human doormat Jake. During my first campaign I played a Ranger. Due to some unfortunate rolls during an encounter, one of the other players fell off a cliff into a lake of lava. The dm said we have 1 round to save him before he takes lethal damage. Acting quickly I attached a rope to an arrow with the idea to shoot it down next to him to let him climb up. I rolled a nat 1. The dm narrated how the arrow stuck into the top of his head and killed him. We laughed it off and he rolled a new character. Years later after DMing myself, that call bothers me. I ask the court, is a nat 1 justification enough to ignore a players AC and kill them, or was it a bad call? I lay myself at the foot of the court.

Hannah

With thy bless, I must confess. Dear holy trinity plus 1 (you can figure out who is the plus one). My heroic partner did me the birthday deed of organising his first DM session and our 4th dnd session. One would think that snacking and slurping on multiple dnd podcasts and eating a variety of dnd shows I would not commit the sin I have. In a moment of utter brain farts I thought my dungeon cutie had said, if you have proficiency you can roll with advantage. Which I happily did, nothing huge came out of it, and I have confessed to my lore lover, but I felt like I should have known better. Please absolve me of my stupidness.

Taylor

To the most Honorable Justices and that guy who rode Amir's coattails to a decent living. I present the case of the Urgent Sending Spell. I am currently playing a Life Cleric in a Curse of Strahd campaign. I will avoid spoilers as much as I can for anyone who might be planning to play. My party is in a town and we got word that a woman we've befriended has been kidnapped by the head of the town's guard and been brought back to the mayor's home where he resides. We have to figure out how to get into the home and get her out without just rushing in because we are already at odds with the mayor. I decide because we have befriended the mayor's son and he's expressed the want for the head guard to be killed due to his cruelty, that I would get him to let us in. So at the start of the day I cast Sending to message him in his mind that we need his help, it will involve taking care of the guard he hates and to meet us at the church. Once I send that the DM says you wait two hours and nothing happens. He has me roll an insight check and tells me "you feel maybe your message wasn't urgent enough to convey he needed to come right this moment." I just stare at the DM and say "I think someone using magic to directly send a message into your mind shows quite an accurate amount of urgency." and the DM responds "not to an absent minded wizard who mostly spends time in his room." We are only lvl 5 so I have two third level spells slots a day....but I use my second to send "GET HERE NOW!" Fast forward and because our wizard cast mage armor "loudly" my negotiations turned into an all out fight. Int his fight our Barbarian's head was "smashed in" We won, but because I had to use both 3rd level spells just to get the son to us to have a way into the home, I now couldn't Revivify (I had the components) our party member. I ask for your judgement, am I wrong for thinking the first message was enough to have someone come see what is going on right away? Or was my DM correct in basically tricking me to waste my final highest spell slot right before we got into a fight that he even deemed "the boss fight of this arc"?

AaronG

To the honorable justices Axford, Murphy, and Tanner and the lowly but lovable bailiff Jake, I humbly ask for your judgement in this case involving a clever teenager PC and an NPC Berbalang. I run a DND campaign for my son and 3 of his friends, which started 2 1/2 years ago when he was in 7th grade. I only played a few times as a teen myself, so I am not an experienced player, but thankfully my son has just about memorized the PHB and there's always the internet. The encounter that is the subject of this case happened well over a year ago, but since I've started listening to the DND Court episodes recently, I realized you may have some wisdom to bring to bear on this issue. The adventurers were working their way through a spelltower that was overrun with aberrations and fiends. I chose a Berbalang as one of the creatures they would encounter in the tower, because I thought its 1/day Mirror Image ability was really cool and would present them a bit of a challenge combined with its ability to fly. At first the combat went as expected - the dwarf fighter charged in and, with a few lucky dice rolls, did nothing more than dispel some of the imposter mirror images. However, the wizard in the group came up with an idea and simply blasted the area where the Berbalang was flying with a Fireball. At first I did the Mirror Image roll to see if the real creature was affected, but he argued that since it was area of effect and the images were all in the same space - easily within the radius of his Fireball - the Berbalang should do the normal Dex save, effectively nullifying the Mirror Image spell for this attack. I saw his logic, and plus it was hard to say no since he had only recently leveled up and learned 3rd level spells, so I didn't want to throw a wet blanket on his excitement in casting the spell. So the Fireball dealt massive damage to the Berbalang and that particular encounter was over pretty quickly. What say you? Did I buckle too easily and let him cheese his way past my interesting baddie? Or was it right to allow this wizard a cool moment where he cleverly employed one of the coolest spells in the game?