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D&D Court: Alignment Issues, Strict Spell Components and a Bad Case of Trap Amnesia (Patreon)

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2023-07-07 06:54:25
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2023-07-07 06:56:10
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Dungeon Court is back in session, and so is the PATRONLY BAILIFF HURWITZ! Join Justices Murphy, Tanner and Axford as they convene to welcome Jim back from Paternity and then pass judgement on your trials at the table!

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Jess Mosher

Truly a buzzer beater lol

Jess Mosher

Thank you for all the lovely content you provide to us, oh bountiful dungeon judgeons 🙏

boundspyral

Haha, that was a surprise, seeing 500+ entries pop up in my naddpod feed- guess something happened and marked all my played short rest/mixed bags as unplayed. Anyway, can't wait to listen to the episode! Welcome back Jake!

Miranda B, Crick DVM

Welcome back, Jake! We missed you lots. Also, please go to bed, Murph.

Alvina Ophiuchus

I'm so proud I actually knew the unseen servant one. I knew it from A Court Of Fey And Flowers, when Binx was giving the spell to one of her patrons. For some reason that but stuck with me, which is especially interesting cause Emily was on ACOFAF

Jack Parsons

Murph is Nat Pagle! Nat Pagle is the most legendary fisherman in all of Azeroth, but canonically doesn't enjoy fishing and has almost no interest in it.

Ambivalent Vagabond

I thought that was just me! I'm relieved to see I'm not alone

StickyLemonDupree

Honestly Jan's DM going "why would you do that" and immediately demanding justification for what is a mundane action, as trying to pick picket someone, is a big red flag.

Sahara

A note on spell components - spellcasting foci, like wands and staffs, replace material components without a gold piece cost. So if the wizard had a wand, the DM was wrong.

MEL Keith

The same!! Was so proud to actually know something!

Cianistarle

" I like this, it's fun!!, see it's fun!"...Murph: I'm just getting frustrated. LoLOlolol hahaha

Z-borb

I love Spell Check, as someone who is playing a campaign where we use spell components it's fun to listen to and it's a nice learning experience

Itamar

CONGRATS ON BABY GEMMA

Citron

go to bed, murph. please just sleep

Chris Skipper

I love this Spell Check. Contestants should be able to ask school of magic (like origin of word) Maybe spell level if they need to narrow it down further.

goddammi

I LOVE SPELL CHECK!

anneon

this might be wrong since someone else said they also had this issue, but i've found for myself that if i log in on desktop browser it unmarks everything as unplayed on my app ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ dunno if that helps lol

anneon

spell check should Absolutely continue lol; the old bahumia trivia game (w/ connor and the twins lol) is a hilarious comfort relisten and honestly would love a splash of that game show energy in 2023

Stacie

Spell check should deffo be a thing!!

Evelyn Carsten

So much this - was pulling my hair out that no one knew of that rule lmao

Sahara

If it's any consolation, the submission didn't include any information about whether the person used a focus or a component pouch so, had they known the rule, they would probably have just mentioned it off-hand and continued along the same line that they went down.

Evelyn Carsten

Big fan of Spell Check! I'm also torn between telling Murph to go to bed and questioning whether or not it's like, parasocially healthy to tell a man in his thirties, who I don't know, that he should go to bed .....but do go to bed, Murph

Magma River

I had this too, and what it's done is that on Podcast Addict there are suddenly two copies of every episode from my Patreon RSS feeds, but not from my *non* Patreon feeds I'm in the middle of a relisten so now there's an Unplayed copy of every episode that was marked as Played, and two copies of all the Unplayed episodes ha!

Magma River

Spell Check was super fun! Not sure if it would sustain for a full episode, but I also didn't think the Personality Quiz mixed bags would either and those ended up being incredible, so I've been wrong before. In fact, not to brag, but I'm wrong about a lot of things.

Nebula Omega

I was going to say the same thing! Maybe if no one guesses it in the first round reveal school? 🤔

Thomas Hegarty

I just wanted to throw it out there that the arcane focus raw replaces all material components that don’t have a specific cost. Brennan and Murph are following the rules

m. white

What is a dad if not the bailiff of the family?

T. Gideon P.

It's been said already, but the druid/wizard would've most likely had a spellcasting focus (because it's part of both classes' starting equipment), which explicitly replaces all material components that aren't consumed by the spell and don't list a price. If the player had lost this spellcasting focus they would've had to scrounge around for materials, but in that case it would've been mentioned. Most likely everyone just forgot that that's how it works RAW.

thiswayjose

GOLD RIGHT OFF THE BAT “alignment is like wine: everyone is pretending that they get it”

thiswayjose

Also, Jan Itor is a Scrubs reference, right? Like, that’s the Janitor’s Doctor Persona

Hymntastic

Welcome back Jim I hope Tucker's baby is doing good!

Lorelei and Kyra Newly Weds

I understand alignments quite well. Case one player is Chaotic evil or borderline lawful evil if they start killing guards instead of trying to run away.

Giemja

Love Spell Check!

Proopypants

My fave spell component is the one for gust of wind, may I recommend it? :D detect thoughts is very cute too

thiswayjose

The spell component question was so timely given how Emily had to find a spell component a few weeks ago in Critical Role for a good reason/high level spell which made combat a lot more interesting and had an impact on the strategy for the fight.

Kal and her cats Portland, Star, and Berlin

Can I just say that I’m so unbelievably proud of myself for guessing Unseen Servant for the spell component question but had no clue about the Darkness 😂 (only knew Unseen Servant because of ACOFAF)

Jamjam

I love Spell Check! Please bring it to the short rest! May I also suggest a fun minigame for it? You are given three random spell components and try to come up with the best original spell for it!

Diz

Definitely here for more spell check 😆

Mr. Dude Sky

The spell component question was so frustrating. A component pouch that spellcasters can start just has all those non gold components in it already. A spell casting focus like a staff or a wand or a crystal ball also replaces those non gold components. That player totally had what they needed for the spell.

tacticalgrandma

Aside from the thousand other red flags w Jan Itor—describing your character as “bored” with the scene the dm’s setting up? Yikes.

Katy Tacik

We simply must see a picture of Lord Franklin.

PastaCortez

Do the mixed bag of components you coward

Joe Lenton

The wither and bloom one is driving me crazy. If the player had a focus, it shouldn’t have even been a problem. You don’t need the vine if you have a focus!! You only need material components that specify a monetary value or are consumed by the spell.

Joe Lenton

(Not crazy at the justices, of course, but the DM who is just a freakin’ knob)

Katy Tacik

Also, how would a lv 4 fighter have thunderstep? Even if they were an eldritch knight, they'd only have 1st level spells. J'accuse!

Grant Wallace

More spell check please! ❤️❤️❤️

Science

Spell Check is a silly game, more please

Q

Spell Check is obviously the superior name, but I can’t get Spelling Tree out of my head. The title screen would involve an anthropomorphic apple tree, only instead of apples it’s scraps of web and copper wires.

K. La

Spell Check is top tier content! Definitely need more!!

Joshua the Safoshua

Same thing here on podcast addict. But the new ones have any custom episode art that was used. The old ones always just showed the pink "Patreon exclusive" Pawpaw art.

Kade

No one knows how spell components works and it really shows when DMs are sticklers about it. Spellcasters start with an arcane focus or component pouch which replaces any spell components that don't have a cost or are used up in spellcasting like revivify. Hands down the the wizard should have been able to use wither and bloom.

Natalie

More spell check !!

stevie

Same! I was like “oh! I remember this conversation from acofaf!”

Jmp098

Spell Check 5e is my favorite game

Juiced

I would LOVE so much more of Spell Check! I was just re-listening to the Jeopardy episode and would love the occasional game showish mixed bags

Evan Davis

Spell check is incredibly entertaining to listen to

Andy

My favorite spell component is beans for stinking cloud

Ashley P

Love spell check!

Tom J

Big fan of the New Hit Game Show, SPELL CHECK! Also "Guy Who Is Great At A Game He Hates With Pure Rage" feels like a Tim Robinson sketch.

Luke Collister

A withered vine would be in a spell component pouch. Jake nailed it. Only components with a gold cost matter. Everything else exists in the pouch or could be replaced by an arcane focus

Mellzs

Spellchecks pretty dope definitely would love more a that!

Crangar’s Little Helper

I really thought Jake said, “thanks for the worm welcome”. Jake is the new worm wife.

Luke Collister

Not really. It was an insane thing to do in the moment. The DM fucked up with how he then handled it but that question is fine.

Gearbox

Unpopular opinion, Alignment is a good tool to use if you do want to restrict yourself and force yourself to rp a character with decisions you yourself wouldn't usually make. Using "it's what my character would do" in a healthy way, I mean. I.e., whereas you the player may not be opposed to torturing an evil prisoner for information, your lawful good character would be. That being said, chaotic neutral rogue isn't doing it that way and is just causing a ruckus.

emery board

absolutely would LOVE listening to more Spell Check

Darkrisky

I enjoyed spell check!

Sam Francis

Spell Check is a fantastic little segment

Ramsey

LOVE Spell Check

Nick Johnson

Big fan of Spell Check! My humble suggestion is maybe include the school of magic? This is evocation then components maybe makes it WAY easier but thought it could help narrow the options

Robidou

More Spell check!!

Ryan Gaudet

Brennan Lee Mulligan vs Matt Mercer vs Murph on Spell Check!

Tork

I love love love spell check

Grace Bee

Holy shit is Jake's kid named Gemma????

Maia

I love spell check!! It was very funny and interesting

Jack

I Love spell check

Jack

Plz make this! It could even be on DropOut

happylinlin00

i love Spell Check! it's fun to try and puzzle it out as a listener. i think it also has the energy of when you and your friends are having a discussion about something you could just factcheck on google, bc the fun of it is the discussion and hypothesizing itself rather than just getting the answer

Bryony

Exactly my reaction!

Katie P.

In solidarity with Emily, my mom got me a dehydrated piranha which I think was eaten by my dog at the time

Kati

Absolutely do Spell Check!!

Dorothy Cooper

Jake did tentatively mention it being part of the wizard's starting kit at one point

Kailey Langer

I LOVE spell check and I would LOVE if spell check were featured on the $5 tier!!!

E Green (edited)

Comment edits

2026-09-05 07:00 I disagree with the first ruling despite normal alignment with the justices. Thunderstep does 3d10 thunder damage to those around you on a failed con save, or half as much on a success. In the middle of a crowd, knowing commoners have 4hp, that's not just thievery: it's potentially mass murder.
2023-07-07 17:21

Sy Delta Parkertron

RAW a component pouch automatically contains all the spell components you need except those that you have a cost associated with them

Cheddar Whizard

Thank you! The person who submitted the case definitely downplayed their nonsense.

Cheddar Whizard

Randomly pickpocketing is 100% a "that guy" move and I at least want to hear what the player's motivation is. The following Thunder Step is also killing a bunch of commoners. 3d10 or half on save. Commoners in the crowd have 4 HP.

JigMink

I like the spell components game but it's making me hate spell components.

Cicely Hodges

I think it's a fun game, and it might help with memorizing certain components for colorful descriptions of magic

Jack M

SUCH AN AMAZING EP missed ya Jake! Very funny very insightful all around. Energy was so high! That YOUTH OF THE NATION felt extra special and loud this Episode

alli

spell check is a great game (and shoutout to arcane foci for making many components unnecessary)

Alana Ochoa

i looove the spell components game, do it!

Brady Young

Spell check is very entertaining. I'd like to see more of it!

M Scotter

Awe, I lost :( well I have DMed for them so sentence served. Thank you Justices. I guess I'll start trusting Jake now. Also Spell Check is fun.

StickyLemonDupree

The thunderstep is was absolutely out of line but a person pickpocketing in a crowd hardly is, especially if they hadn't done anything before and "why would you do that?" Is not the same as an "are you sure?", It was adversarial and definitely would get a player to dig in their heels.

Ian juarez

This has probably already been said but, mechanically speaking any spell components that aren’t explicitly stated to be consumed on cast, or have a gold cost… are automatically covered via either a component pouch or a spellcasting focus…. So if the withered vine isn’t either of those things, the dm is in the wrong RAW

Cats

SPELL CHECK SPELL CHECK SPELL CHECK

Victoria Notme

Love Spell Check! Thinking about the components and how they relate to the "science" of the magic makes it all feel more flavorful

anneon

:D yea!! i believe someone said that it's actually a family name on jill's side so it's not just jake naming their kid after a d&d character lol

Elizabeth Lees

I came to the comments just to see if someone mentioned this. It doesn’t seem like the Two Crew know the function of a spellcasting focus.

CJ Rhodes

I cannot tell you how much I relate to the case of too many NPCs. I pitched a low magic campaign to a group of players and everyone was on board. I made the rules very clear. This was a dishonored styled campaign where very limited magic was still available and the whole hook was going to be The players searching for magic items and finding ways to open up communication with the gods and ancient magic, giving them the options to open up to other classes and things in the future. As I said, I made the rules very clear on what would and would not be allowed and made sure everyone was on board before doing this experimental campaign. One player pitched that he grew up in an orphanage with a cleric that had all these different spells that he learned from them and did everything he could in his build to get access to as much magic as possible without even asking me what would be available to him in the world they lived in. I got so much pushback from this one player that I eventually scrapped the entire campaign idea and just ran a slightly modified story from the essentials kit. Planning to build up from there. This same players backstory was that he was a wizard who went to a college for adventurers so he knew every single monster and all their stats and what would be available to every player when it came to their spells and without even slightly trying to role play, he metagamed his way through every situation. Eventually, I just told him he needed to DM since he clearly wanted to set all the rules for the world and the story himself anyway, and disbanded my campaign.

some loser

Spell Check is actually kind of the perfect radio show because you get to think about the question on your own, then hear the reasoning of people who interpreted the question from a different angle than you. I found it really engaging!

M Scotter

Good news. This has resulted in a very good conversation between all three of us about about how we can communicate better as DMs and players.

Sand Panda

More Spell Check. Yes please.

Morgan E. McCaw

I like SpellCheck, it's a fun game. Playing along at home I knew the amber and fur was going to be for something electrostatic and actually guessed lightning bolt!

Dijonna Terry

Would love more Spell Check, pretty please!

Stephen Fike

Cannot wait for more Spell Check! Hopefully they make it weekly and replace the main campaign am I right?

Anthony Morgan

YES YES YES, I love spell check! Everyone downplays components but i think they’re so cool!!

Robert

I listened to this ep while walking around New York City and I found a withered vine before they finished ruling. That wizard could definitely get one.

Rowan Sauer

I would also like more Spell Check

Martian

Love the spell check idea!

Martian

Can't decide if I want Murph to be forced to host or participate

Johncarllos

Spell check is sick. Having a few guests on for a Mixed bag would be great!

Katy Howells

I work in an office, and I give out stickers to people when they do a good job... Maybe I need a good-job bell 🤣😈

Libbi Longworth

Ahhhh Emily read Sabriel!! I named my cat after Sabriel 😭 it's a fantastic book series.

kosmic

more spell check please

vrtx

Omg people so often misunderstand spell components. If your character has a spell casting focus (a magic staff, hat, wand, etc) you dont need to use components. EXCEPT if it has a gold cost or says explicitly it consumes the material. Wither and Bloom doesn’t say either. Some occasions the character might get thrown in jail and have their focus taken from them. In that case, be a stickler, make them look in the cell for materials. A spiderweb, some sand, rat fur…Make it actually fun….

vrtx

Hard agree, the dm is either the dm is inexperienced or just being a control freak, trying to make some epic rescue moment.

Ash

I was actually lost in the courthouse earlier and found a side door entering onto the stage for Spell Check! the Gameshow

Melissa

More spell check!!!! Please

mandie lee

maybe spell check would be fun with some multiple choice options !

Yusuf Qureshi

Bring SPELL CHECK TO THE MAIN FEEEEEED

Hamish

Oh shit yeah I loved the old kingdom series. Garth Nix has a wonderful imagination.

josie murph

would love a spell check mixed bag!

Manuel Berringhaus

Spellcheck was very cool to play/hear/guess guys. Please sprinkle some in whenever you feel like it 🥰👏

Manuel Berringhaus

Rotating hosts, all of em who DM'd before take turns per episode/show and the other 3 are candidates 👏👍

Manuel Berringhaus

You boss. For some reason I guessed scry but after revealing the correct answer I felt foolish 🙈

Grimma Lynx

What is it about tomb of annihilation that brings out the dumb antics in players? Every time Ive run the module, at least one of my players tries to do crimes and gets caught

SpillboBaggins

Exactly this. I was going crazy the whole time. The game gives you a way to completely ignore them (except for the gold cost ones)

Kelley

OK it's really great to have Jake back!

Teo Tamashiro-Harris

To be fair, a couple weeks ago I woke up and was like "Do I remember my phone passcode?" So I locked my phone and tried to open it and got it wrong so many times that I completely locked myself out and had to format my phone entirely...

King Rob

This is a good idea

Wit & Whimsy

[ DMG’s Chapter 10: Spellcasting ] “Material (M): Casting some spells requires particular objects, specified in parentheses in the component entry. A character can use a component pouch or a spellcasting focus (found in chapter 5, “Equipment”) in place of the components specified for a spell. But if a cost is indicated for a component, a character must have that specific component before he or she can cast the spell. If a spell states that a material component is consumed by the spell, the caster must provide this component for each casting of the spell. A spellcaster must have a hand free to access a spell’s material components — or to hold a spellcasting focus — but it can be the same hand that he or she uses to perform somatic components.”

Wit & Whimsy

Ps. Spellcheck is hilarious. Mixed Bag, s’il vous plaît!

Queue

1-2 spellchecks per episode would be a perfect amount.

Banana

I would listen to literal hours of spell check

evan deas

Need more spell check content.

Adam Greenough

The Cardinals of Dice Christ have gotten weak, forgiveness for such sins is an affront in RNGesus's name. I want hellfire and punishment for these abominations and transgressions.

Eric Keller

More Spell Check so much fun

Guilherme Farias

I know they joked about it not being fun to listen to but I absolutely loved Spell check and I think they stumbled into the next big thing like DnD court

Evan

We definitely need more Spell Check in some capacity

maya

spell check is sweeping my nation

Gabriel Wykle

Am I off-base or did y'all forget what a spellcasting focus is for awhile there

Adam Baker

Spell check belongs on ‘Um Actually’

Allen W.

Love Spell Check!

jawnster

Haven't listened to the council of elders list in a while. Did not disappoint this round lol

Rebecca S

I LOVE Spell Check game btw

Summer, Autumn Eladrin

Spell components also are not consumed unless the spell says so, so once you have an ingredient you can keep using it unless the spell says it's consumed.

Dylan Jackson

I would listen to Spell check for days on end! Spell Check, the only game show that's a stickler for spells!

shay b.

so happy to hear the garth nix love!!!

Argonautica

I'm so good at Spell Check, I got all of these.

Argonautica

I'll say for spell components. The rules of 5e cover them pretty well. Any sort of spellcasting focus, replaces the need for any non priced component. Also the actual component pouch item assumes it has any needed non priced component in it. Every spellcasting class starts with one of these things, focus or pouch. So you're pretty much always covered on this unless the component has a listed price. Gathering components for your pouch *can* be a fun little bit of roleplaying, flavor for how you do magic, but you have that shit.

SneakyTweaky

I just love Murph. Emily, watch out. (/s)

Baron Trousers

The other exception is spell components that specify they are "consumed" by the casting of the spell. Much like components that have a cost, they are required for every casting of the spell.

Ethan Barker

I love the spell check! Need more of this please, for my education!!!

aanhalt12000

I truly need more of the spellcheck game in my life lol

HorsesAreGodsHimbos

Aggghhh I LOVE The Old Kingdom series!!! Also yes, more Spell Check!!

Gabby Johnson

Was looking for this! This is my understanding as well! I was explained by my Granddaddy DM (and my Daddy DM also actually) (who are my buds Justin and Micah the former who DMs for my DM) (omg this doesn’t matter)…that for spell components that have no GP next to them and are free the player can be like “My gnome Draing Plu uses her orb and from it comes a grasshopper to the glass as she casts Mold Earth” or whatever (I’m sure I got that spell wrong, I’m still learning casters). So, the only ones then that are gameified to “hunt” is the spell components with a price of GP IF that’s a game you’re interested in! Please correct me if I’m wrong.

Gabby Johnson

By this do you mean components that are like “5 arrowheads” or something? Like you should have X amount of arrowheads to be able to cast Y spell and when you run out, do a search game or a shopping game to re-up?

Mooncrest

Without NADDPOD I would not be "ready for the clay," I love DMing!

Jack Farley

I’d definitely watch a mix bagged of this spell component game show

Argonautica

Almost every spell that consumes a component also lists the cost of the component, but you have to find another one of the consumed item. Some of them don't list a cost, but the thing that is consumed is an item that has a cost associated with it. Like protection from evil and good need holy water or powdered silver/iron, which all has a cost, and is listed as consumed. There are some spells that just consume something with no cost associated, and those components you'll need to replenish. This is a very small list, only three spells in official materials, and I would argue the stuff consumed in two of them are things you can just hand wave having multiple of or easy access to. Those two are Globe of Invulnerability which takes a glass or crystal bead that shatters when the spell ends, and Dark Star which needs a shard of onyx and a drop of the casters blood, both of which are consumed. Easy to get a bunch of, or easy to say you prick your finger The last one is Druid Grove which uses a component so specific and niche that it makes RP sense you need to get it, but it also lists that it's consumed. Druid Grove needs mistletoe harvested with a golden sickle under a full moon, and that mistletoe is consumed.

Reece Brogden

Spellcheck sounds pretty good for a mixed bag. Def not main feed tho

Moonlit Ghost

I just finished "Terror on Toy Island" for D20 so all the donkey talk was even funnier for me thinking back to that episode

Jess D.

Pls keep the spell component game forever

Sorrell Oberon

I love the spell component game please please please I need it.

Misguided Kraken

I love Spell Check, though I think you should add it into Court episodes not a whole episode on it's own.

Amy Bergeron

I just had a chance to listen and I LOVE SPELL CHECK VERY MUCH 😭 but I am not subscribed at the mixed bag level so I hope you just keep it in the D&D Court episodes hahahahaha

Rou [like roo]

I am so proud of myself, I got both spell guesses right 🥹❤️

Theo Englund

PLEASE DO SPELL CHECK I THINK IT SHOUKD BE ITS OWN THING

hannah

I think that there is a way to do a lot of people in your backstory, but I agree that the player in that particular case should be the one who is punished because of how he thought he was “helping” his DM. In Critical Role for example, Taliesin has had characters with a lot of people in his backstory, but it only worked for certain reasons. One, there was already a lot of trust between Matt and the players. Two, in Percy’s case his large family was mostly deceased so Matt didn’t have to be every NPC in his backstory. In Cad’s case, all of his family was found in one place. And lastly, with Ashton, we haven’t met any of his original group except Milo and who knows if we will ever meet them. So I think it can work, but only if there is a lot of trust between DM and player already in place, and clearly the player in the case was kind of arrogant in his opinion.

Noah James Perito

Spell components are the most fun when using them heavily in your description - it really makes spellcasting even more epic

Sunshine Shenanigans

Has anyone told Emily that Tim Curry narrates "Sabriel" and the other two books in the original trilogy??? Emily! I beg you! Listen to the audiobooks as well!

Garga Lenoir

There has been some confusion about what railroading is in this show, well the spell components case seems like a textbook case. The GM had a "cool" resolution in mind for the problem, so they blocked/punished any attempt by the players to do their own thing and "ruin" the story.

Jorjudge

I love the joke of the show needing to find a villain and be cartoonishly punitive. Just gonna ruin that for a sec. No one needs new friends. The person with the crazy backstory is probably just trying to follow Brennan Lee Mulligans advice on creating characters who care about doing things in the world and getting carried away. Having eight people I kind of know from a city I spent some time in isn't crazy in real life. Story wonks like Brennan, our illustrious bailiffs and the seasoned Jonk, whatever their name is seem to have knowledge about what is a large or small amount of characters for a given thing. If that's true that knowledge is not intuitive to everyone I'm only guessing at its existence from Context Clues like how people with Arts degrees criticized Avengers endgame in video essays back in the day. Teach this person they might actually think their DM is looking for lone wolves. Their DM might actually just be looking for lone wolves. I'm pretty sure hand waving Spell components is standard and maybe even rules is written when they are no specified price. Everyone likes smooth gameplay. A lot of us really want the smooth gameplay to not break immersion too badly so a components pouch is not understood to be a trash bag full of random crap, but a small pouch that is prepared with the things you need as you are preparing your spells. In a circumstance like this ruling that you might not have the right thing isn't that wild. If I wanted to be a stickler I would probably have only gone as far as "I'm allowing it, but you watch yourself counselor." I'd say that no heroic PC would ever prepare a spell they didn't have the ingredients for so they should at least have been allowed to retcon their spell list. Submissions are supposed to be short, I see no reason to believe there wasn't a combat for the chase or the Velociraptor guy's death. As to alignment it's not that hard guys, it's vague Notions. We can handle vague Notions. Assuming that this is a truly fantastic world and the cops are not particularly evil, I shrug at the pickpocketing but when it went awry and the player was going to use a third level damaging spell on some presumably commoner ish guards, I'd maybe point out that the player was about to go from petty theft to a public killing spree and ask if they wanted to rethink that

Iwantweeklyreleases

In the case of the Level 4 fighter, Jan Itor, he alleges that he cast thunder step, a 3rd level spell. How did a level 4 fighter cast a a 3rd level spell, he deserved the death by Raptor he received.

Mr. Toast

I actually loved the Spell check game! To possibly keep it as a recurring event and because there are only so many spells with interesting and clever components, I could see the game being expanded to cover other things in the game like class features, cover mechanics, etc.

David Lipscomb

My Grandma has 5 donkeys. They can't be trusted

David Lipscomb

My Grandma has 5 donkeys. They can't be trusted

William beachus

Nobody mentioning the fact that thunderstrp deals like. 3d10 damage to everyone in an area, while in a crowd killing probably a bunch of npcs

Kamakshi J R

More spell check pleaaaaase!!!!

NemoKeine

More spell check please

Andrew Kruck

I think an underrated component of the alignment case is that these were new players joining an established campaign, and the relationship between the player and the established group is kind of nebulous. I’ve had players I’ve DMed for who were new and who I knew, but who weren’t really close enough for me to feel comfortable with a confrontation about alignment 30 minutes into their first time playing. I don’t wanna drive them off the hobby by being a stickler, and I think the DM was being a little bit over the top by killing them, but coming in with the aggressive That Guy energy and not taking the hint (plus this being presented from the players perspective) really makes me feel the written record is hard to trust.

Andrew Kruck
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(Continuing to comment as I go) with the backstory case, the attitude is far and away the biggest problem. If the DMs felt the need to talk about it, that’s absolutely something where the player wants their many characters to be brought in. Especially the whole “I left these guys missing so you can use them as plot hooks” is imo way less a gift than a demand. The DM can write “your sister went missing”, but if you start them out missing that leaves a huge question that you’re basically demanding the DM answer and include. Hard agree with the justices coming down on it because even with the person slanting things towards their side, they come off really jaded and aggressive.

Greg Cook

Love spell check

Mya

There is actually a website that has Icelandic Horses respond to work emails while you’re on vacation. They trained the horses to type on a giant keyboard and they do type. Not words but they type. https://www.visiticeland.com/outhorse-your-email/

Kayleigh Z

I like spell check and would def listen to more of it!

Ben Young

Spell Check is very fun to play along with! Would love it if you play'd it everyone so often!

Brianna M

My favorite part of Spell Check is y'all figuring out justifications for the component choices

Roger medina

Spellcheck!!! And Justice Jake ftw!

Cameron Knight

Spell check was great, reminded me of wait wait don't tell me but dnd spell category lol. Maybe for audio format multiple choice? Or true false questions. Could even branch out to be other things like describe a feature and guess the subclass.

CommodoreBlue

Can’t believe that one DM doubled the damage because the player got a Nat 1 on the save. That’s not a crit, and shouldn’t double the dice. Must be a house rule, but still

Nick Lerche

Please do more spell check thrown in the middle of DND Court

Jackson Roth

100% the funniest bit, carrots for darkvision

Jackson Roth

Remember kids, eat carrots for darkvision

Kozai

Going back to listen to this, and when Murph says, “I hate this game, but god I’m decent at it,” is so, so freaking funny. 😭

WitchKnightRen

Really can't go wrong with a fucked up library

WitchKnightRen

The Old Kingdom books forever altered my brain chemistry when I read them twenty years ago

Max Herzog

You didn't instantly recognize the reference to the famous Dr Jan Itor?? Inventor of the Knife-Wrench (For kids)???

Doctor Ransom

MORE SPELLCHECK PLEASE!! This could be its own bi-weekly series

Driftwood747

Chaotic problem for the first one.

Kellyd

Hey 2 years later, I think they did do a spellcheck mini game on Um Actually this past season!

Please Dont Look at Me

Coming back to this two years later to let you know a writer I follow has two pet pigs and has had a rescue pig in his backyard for a while and he semi recently went on vacation and his pig sitters fell through so he had to order pizza and convince the delivery person to just throw it over the back fence. And then he had to get them and various other delivery people to do that like 8 more times.

Ryan Mazurkiewicz

He didn’t just steal. He killed guards with thunder step in my interpretation

pain938

Also, spell component pouch essentially works the same way. If you have one, you are assumed to have any non-priced spell component.

AmitaiB

“That’s what my character/alignment would do” is a red flag because it shuts down the conversation, rather than opening one up like “I think it’d be fun” does. It preempts any pushback as railroading, or a violation of player autonomy. I think “ah, at this table we don’t have alignment, so what do *you* want to do?” might be an off ramp, or “that’s a spicy character choice there, nice… you’ve got a backup character ready, right?”

Hunter Payne

I'm surprised Emily doesn't remember how devastating thunder step is especially in a crow full of commoners. Went from petty theft to mass murder real quick. Definitely deserved the Dino death.

Goggalor

Re listening to this 3 years later and truly mind blown that they think the DM should've derailed the whole session to try and reel this obnoxious player in "by the book". They came to the table as a new player to join an existing game and showed they were a problem player immediately. I'd cutscene kill them, too.

Mark Helmer

Also it is a sex panther level reference (scrubs)