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Dungeon Court is still in session! Join Justices Murphy, Tanner and Axford, along with Bailiff Jake, as they pass judgement on your trials at the table!

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Dungeon Court Theme Song by Sam Weiller

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Mnixon

Excellent

Ethan

Let’s goooo

Syf Sloane

i’ve only ever made npcs who are absolute buffoons

Doctor Ransom

Damn that’s twenty Nat 20’s??

rosebramblewolf

Sounds like the first LW was banished, which would end as soon as the party members still in the fight got the caster to drop concentration.

Jake de Medeiros

some of these submissions are pretty obviously fake at this point right? Is it just me? I feel like I’m going crazy hearing these obv formulaic submissions about an innocent player with a crazyyyy DM just trying to get on the show

Olivia S

I laughed so fucking hard when Murph said “get him” after the mean DM and therapist DM 😂

Myckeli

I'm listening to this in between relistening to campaign 1, and I just finished the short rest after the Gemma incident, in which they mention possibly starting Dungeon Court. What a whiplash

Kellyd

Nah I accepted long ago most of these are fake. I personally don't listen for the cases, I listen for the judges' banter - I don't play d&d though, can imagine it would be annoying if i was listening to get advice or something like that

Goodnight Burrito

Unfortunately no, I wasn’t banished, or at the very least my dm wasn’t following RAW because I did ask if there was anything that could be done to get me back and was told only plane shift. it was narrated in the next oneshot how my character had to find someone in the astral sea to teleport them back to meet up with the party 🙃

electric gnu

please let "dm who calls people stupid" become a recurring character in the vein of blasting grandma

Jake de Medeiros

You’re real for that. I just wish the people writing the fake cases would shake it up a little bit!

Stefan UrKILL (Figgy)

Definitely reads as embellishing events at the very least. Like what might’ve been a laugh between friends years ago turned into “THIS KA-RAZY PERSON WHO SHOULD NOT BE NEAR OTHERS DID A CRIME TO ME”

Santa Grinch Hugging HumBaba and two Fairies

The Dm trying to "stealth" therapy seems to be influenced by the Isekai that is basically Ryan Urfy putting negative points into appearance to gain godly powers except the anime character has more self awareness somehow

Existentialgrunt

I emphasize with the confessor. I ran a vampire boss fight for my group and it was the end of a really fun haunted house adventure. My vampire boss didn’t roll above a 6 until he was at 5 HP. Although I was tried, I kept my faith in Dice-Christ and was rewarded with a nat 20, dramatically downing the party sorcerer before being defeated before his next turn. The payoff was fun and dramatic without the party feeling like they were scraping by.

Alex H.

I think they were hit with a hostile Planeshift

Lamp

holy shit, the level of righteous fury for the excluded player was unreal, absolutely fuck that DM

Bryce Peterson

So proud of these wise elders (and Barf). 😌 Ya’ll do so well coming to the fairest conclusions, and Barf had the perfect advice/reasoning on every case in my opinion.

Brian McAree Murphy

Did they apologize? And no one freaked out when you left?

Brian McAree Murphy

Not on board with ruling with the fan the flames DM, they have so many times come down against real world logic being applied to DND and this is purely that. The only indication that gust of wind gives in terms of interaction with fire is extinguishing or not. The idiom fan the flames is not physics, lush plants are actually super hard to ignite due to water content. Chemical accelerants tend to burn out very quickly. Plenty of real world reasons why the fire wouldn't have actually become an issue also exist..... Say for example you lit a fire in a fully stone abbey, the odds that some alchemist fire and a fireball destroying it utterly in real life wouldn't make any sense at all. DND logic is completely different to real life. Which means the DM made the choice to fuck with the player rather than reward them, that's what needs to be judged upon I would think.

Goodnight Burrito

Everyone understood why I left lol for brevity I didn’t include it in the post, but I did talk to the dm and told her I didn’t want a one-shot for my character, I just wanted to narrate what she did after the campaign. Dm never apologized, but it’s fine, I still play with her, I’ve known her for nearly 20 years, this wasn’t enough to ruin the friendship lol

rosebramblewolf

Has she learned from the experience or do her games still focus on 23 Rian Urphys and how much cooler they are than you?

Goodnight Burrito

She’s improved I think. We recently started up a new campaign in that same homebrew world, and I was so relieved when she told me that it wouldn’t feature those npcs lol

William Blankenship

I don’t think it should have made it worse but it def does not work. Gust of wind is a breeze it is not strong enough to do more than maybe a latent per the rules. Also as an engineer I will say fan the flames also is physics. Increasing oxygen to the flames will make them burn hotter and grow. It’s why you use a blower in things like coal powered forges but I agree a small burst of wing wouldn’t affect green plants because the moisture would have to be overcome

William Blankenship

I completely agree that the DM should have told them point blank that’s not gonna help. I’ve run a pirate campaign before and the amount of times that players thought that would propel a full pirate ship was insane because they’re actually is other spells that are stronger wind Gale is a much stronger force of wind

William Blankenship

The 6 player issue should be brought to the PLAYERS and DM. I have had this question before if adding someone would make it a bit to crunchy so I asked my table if they are okay with it. Almost everytime they said yes we understand it will be slower combat but let’s go. So ask everyone as a group. DM is the leader of the table but should always get the input of the party. I will say as a DM that has had six players. I do understand the frustration and I’ve had a friend who was newer to DM scared to take on as many players as I’ve had because it does make balancing encounters very difficult and for my 2 1/2 to 3 hour sessions it makes combat extremely long. I’ve also had a campaign fizzle out because the DM tried to include everyone he could which was 13 players so of course that didn’t work. That said this is a crazy way to handle it. Honestly adding one more person isn’t that big of a deal also, I actually like running campaigns for larger groups because the statistical chance of someone not making the biweekly meeting becomes an inevitability so usually during combat I’m only running 4 to 5 players if I have six players. It’s scary at first but not to bad use swams of enemies don’t care about the balance level on DND beyond just throw the amount of enemies you feel is right.

Brian McAree Murphy

Fanning flames is a process, it is directional. You fan the base of a flame to increase heat, usually beneath or low to the side. Blowing down on a flame doesn't magically make it explode into a roaring blaze. No forge has a blower above the fire because it would be daft. My point is that this is taking "real world things that people don't actually know how it works" and justifying their DND around it. When in actuality they chose to punish an action that could reasonably goin many directions. Nothing happening was just as likely

wick

Man….i miss the boobs so bad wow. That 2 seconds of roleplaying the table flipping was so good wtf. Praying for C1/C3 overlapping canon mini-campaign!!

Shez

Something about hearing moonshine, hardwon, and beverly voices again makes me feel so nostalgic. I need that bahoomia pre time skip post campaign 1 mini arc lol lemme see these heroes in the astral plane please please please

YourAnimeDad

Astral Sea?.... Caldy siting lore? Jake being dialed into his Hardwon voice? Without warmup? Murph been referencing Band Of Boobs a lot? Emily has no tells.... They're planning something... I just can't prove it yet

Jose Mercado Ortiz

I was caught so off-guard when they said my name and started reading my case! But I’m glad they felt the same way I did about the unnecessary harshness of our forever DM. Thank you guys for reviewing my case!

Smiththebat

Usually I’m not for letting real world science creep in and define your fantasy world’s magical laws…. But the gust of wind DM choice is 100% what I would have done. I don’t think just because you cast a spell you should be rewarded. A big fire with a lot of wind will make it grow I don’t even think that’s really that arguable. I don’t think gust of wind is high enough of a spell level to put out a God sized birthday cake candle blow-out type gust… but maybe that’s just me.

Shane C

They have to colonize Ilus!

rosebramblewolf

I like to make PCs who are absolute buffoons!

Aidan Boyle

Overlooked element of the messy fighter case; the submitter mentioned "the other player" singular, which means this party is two exes and one other person

Lauryn

I just need to comment that my wife’s most embarrassing story is sneezing then farting in front of an entire classroom of kids. So that punishment sent me.

Nathan Wilson

Like, I fully get that sometimes the DM needs to make a DM PC so they can have a little more fun, but I'd never push it past one, and even then, they should be a little buffoonish, or fully focused on party support. 20 DM PC's is absolutely crazy.

Jonathan Larson

It took me a minute, but I realized the table flipping scenario played out already on Worlds Beyond Number with Lou and it was so damn funny.

Davybouy

Just an FYI, there is no Hostile Plane shift. It requires a willing creature (also the caster is sent to the location too). I have a feeling the DM didn't read the spell if this was the case

Hugo Wull

Um Actually, an unwilling creature must succeed a Charisma Saving after being hit with a Spell Attack from the caster. If the attack hits and the save fails, the target is shifted to a new plane per the rules described in the spell. This is per 2014 PHB

Charlie

Hey, just wanted to say I had to say goodbye to my 18 year old cat today and have been crying periodically all day, but this was able to get me cackling with laughter. Thank y'all for all you do

Luke Polito

The crew saying I seem like a funny and kind DM will fuel me for the next calendar month. Thank you for hearing my case and for affirming my long table beliefs, I am happy I stood strong.

Smiththebat

You could also argue that gust of wind isn’t nearly powerful enough to do ANYTHING… I’d also be on board for that.

22 Hilda Street

I do agree with forever DM since you burned 1/3 of your ki points and didn't get the other attack, although they were a little harsh

Jada

Saying “Are you fucking stupid?” to someone you consider your FRIEND is crazy work 🥴🥴🥴

Jamie Matthews

Hearing Hardwon, Moonshine, and Beverly's voices made me unreasonably emotional... Brb have to go relisten to the entirety of Campaign 1 immediately

Marc Bollinger

I feel your pain, I had the same thing 2 days prior to your post with my little buddy, Misty. What was their name?

munch lax

You guys really need to do a dnd court check up like ask all the most notorious or crazy cases and see what happened after they submitted

FiendishNoodles

I think one thing that the Court may be overlooking in the case of the Players v. Double-Ex boyfriend is that everyone still seems to want to be around this dude, ergo maybe he's just an absolute smokeshow beefcake.

riskutforthebriskut

what is with people getting involved with their game group lmao

riskutforthebriskut

or you could just make it fun because this is D&D and you can do what you want lmao

Smiththebat

There has to be some consequences and some actual levels of power to the spells… otherwise we’re just playing make believe or calvin ball. I don’t subscribe to RAW only but there has to be some kind of consistent framework.

Kaidan C

“Kick him out” Idk guys, being bad at communicating is a pretty common relationship problem, and breaking up is normal, and it sounds like he’s trying to keep things friendly The DM is the one in the story being a complete freak, maybe kick them?

Kaidan C

Some friends are like that though. Like how some siblings greet eachother by wrestling and maybe accidentally breaking a coffee table

Frogndog

It's fucked up that DnD 10 years ago was still 5th edition

AgedGouda

Have we considered that this dude might be an absolute smoke show beefcake?? Have we even considered that??

AgedGouda

The astral sea DM with tons of overpowered NPCs doesn’t sound great, but personally I don’t advise storming away from the table. As an emotional dude who overreacts to things at the table myself, it’s totally possible the DM had something planned to fix it, or could’ve improvised something. If you leave you’ll never know. And even if they don’t , it’s not a huge deal. Saying this as someone who got rly pissy over a tpk just to reflect on it later and realize it did not matter.