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Hey there folks! Your Lowly Bailiff Jake here. The Supreme Crit is convening this week LIVE in Fort Lauderdale AKA COURT LAW-DERDALE! Will you be at the show? If you will be in attendance then we would love to try your case. Please submit your brief (1-2 paragraphs, I do beg) cases on this thread and we will try you in open court.

Don't forget to let us know your name and the general area you will be sitting in.

Also, there are a few tickets still available for this upcoming tour if you wanna catch a show!

Humbly,

Jake

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Anonymous

Flavourful court judges and bland bailiff, may it please the court to present the Curse of the Musical Shoes. I am a dungeon master and in one session the plot took the party to a haunted house to extract a magic Token. It was a real Cave of Wonders situation, as I had a whole bunch of magical items, weapons, art, etc all over the house. But if any of it left the property, the item would become cursed! The ghost who owned the home said he would only "uncurse" one object for the party, which I assumed would be the Token. One party member, "Fred," was a fashionable Drow. Fred also happens to be "that player" at my table, often derailing the party's plans by being chaotic and obstinate. He went into the master bedroom closet and found a pair of magic shoes he just couldn't live without. So of course, when the party found the Token, Fred wanted the host to uncurse the shoes and not the plot-furthering McGuffin. Fred the PC left the scene and his player decided to take a potty break. Two other PCs asked the ghost if he could uncurse the token and just pretend to uncurse the shoes. The ghost shrugged and agreed, uncursing the token. When Fred returned, the ghost waggled his fingers and told Fred he was all set. After leaving the house, at sunrise, the shoes turned into a cursed custom item. They now played theme music whenever he walked in them. I made a custom playlist that everyone contributed to that I would play at (in)opportune times. Everyone had a laugh whenever the music came on and the player didn't seem to mind, since he wasn't a sneaky character. But after a few more sessions, he had his PC leave the group and brought in another character. Was I wrong to give the PC cursed shoes, possibly causing the character to retire earlier than he wanted? Or was it okay in order to move the bigger story along, while also being kinda funny, and another PC's idea entirely? -Tim & Jackie H. from Delaware ((looking forward to Court Lauderdale! We'll be in the Orchestra seats Row B, Seat 13 & 15!))

Anonymous

The case of The Joke that Went Too Far? Dear honorable judges and __?__, I present to you a case from the first campaign our group played together roughly 5 years ago and it’s still a bit of a sore subject to this day. The quick backstory is that during our campaign, our DM would start every session by asking us some in character questions to get us into the mind set of our characters before we began the session. They were usually harmless, fun world developing questions until one day he asked us, “What is one secret your character knows about someone else in the party that they don’t know themselves?” And this is where we all come to you to resolve this issue once and for all. Most of the responses didn’t have serious implications, except for our human fighter, who’s entire reasoning for adventuring is to make money to send home to his mother and sister back home. He had stepped out of the room, and I made the joke to another player saying wouldn’t it be funny if his family was dead this whole time and he’s sending money to nobody. We laughed and looking to our dm for approval. When the fighter came back, the DM generically asked if he was okay with a MAJOR change to his character’s backstory, and the fighter said “yeah that sounds fun,” so at that point the deceased family became cannon. Months went by and at about 80% through the campaign the secret came to light and the news was devastating…. to him, in character and irl. Emotions got really intense that night. So I humbly ask, were we wrong for ruining a grown man’s night in his own home or is he wrong because technically we did ask before hand? He also goes out of his way to make sure all of his characters since this event, never have any loved ones or family members in his backstory. P.s. It did result in a fun side quest based around the whole situation and the whole party will be at the show so all perspectives can be interrogated. We’re sitting in section ORCHR, Row D, seats 8-18

Anonymous

TLDR - The one player two pets incident! To the esteemed Justices Axford, Murphy, and Tanner and that other guy Jeremiah or something. All D&D players know that the only true and real goal of a D&D game is to find and adopt pet companions and other fun friends along the way. The rest of D&D battle mechanics is just window dressing on this all important over arching goal. At this point in our game only one of our four adventures had managed to find and befriend an adorable companion. Our fighter, Brawny Wod, had an enchanted blue bird he saved from the Twinkle Tavern’s resident cat, Sparkles. The rest of us were naturally insanely jealous. Despite our DMs captivating story line and creative battle encounters she knew 3/4 of her players were despondent and sad that we had not yet successfully founded and adopted adorable companions. But our DM aims to please! After winning our next big battle our proceeded to offer up three Faewild woodland creatures as a reward. One for each of us, right? (Hold that thought) Our bard immediately claimed the Fae Chipmunk and then our Wizard, Riven Indigo, aggresively claimed BOTH of the Faewild foxes. (Imagine my dismay) Riven made a medium animal handling check and the DM allowed him to keep BOTH of the Faewild foxes. Leaving me the only pet less player in our adventuring party. Justices, should my DM have allowed Riven to claim BOTH of the Faewild foxes? Or should the DM have interfered to make sure I received one of the pets (as clearly intended). I await your ruling oh wise and brilliant Justices. - Heather in Orchestra, Row C, Seat 10

Anonymous

Emily and Tony of Enter the Fungeon fame here in Row B seats 5 and 7! To the beloved justices and bailiff uh… um… anyways! I humbly ask for your judgment on a case that has resurfaced on a number of occasions to mock me over the past several years. Do not worry, no spoilers ahead for our podcast. At the time I was playing my sweet, older sister type, paladin named Janice. For some ungodly reason, the other players as well as NPCs had an innate drive to hate her no matter how loving and caring she is. Like overly rude when she is trying to help them. This is an important note. We were at a random pawn shop which is when our DM tends to throw out the most random items that we as players will then find creative ways to exploit (as players do). The item being offered to me this time was a ring of random keys, like a hundred random keys. Not entirely sure why, but our DM started at his initial price then haggled himself down to free very quickly without me being able to get a word in edgewise. I took a half a second to think and responded with “how about I take these keys off your hands and find what each one goes to. For each one I find where it goes, you pay me 5 gold.” Without hesitation, the shopkeep snatched the keys and said “the keys are off the table.” No opportunity for a persuasion roll or anything! To this day, “the keys are off the table” is said by all those who were at the table that day when I am pushing my DM too far. So I ask you justices, can you really call yourself a D&D player character if you have not challenged your DM to find where the line is? Is it not the players job to fuck around and often narrowly escape finding out? Or are the keys really off the table? I anxiously await your fair ruling. Ps I have never played D&D and I hate the show PPS I bought my DM/husband these tickets as his birthday present in the hopes that he is wrong and he can be shamed publicly for it. Fingers crossed!

Anonymous

The Case of the Entrepreneur Barbarian Hello from Bubba and Javi in Row G May it please the court and the lowly to the fifth power Bailiff Frank. I would like to present The Case of the Entrepreneur Barbarian. In our online campaign, our Barbarian Krognar has decided to open up a “Fast Food Restaurant” that serves chicken hence KFC. It takes time away from the game and he tries to make it the focus for his character. When the Barbarian isn’t frying chicken, he butts into other players time. The Barbarian can be in a different part of the city while we are doing something completely different and he (the player) will interrupt or take the spotlight from other players. This has become a problem that multiple people have expressed to the DM and including other games that we play in. How can we silence this mother clucking Barbarian who wants the limelight?

Anonymous

Amazing show tonight, you guys are incredible and I’m equally terrified of the admittedly justified punishment you sentenced our party to for killing off our friends family.