3PP Release New 3PP release: Thematic Toolkit: Judge, Jury, and Executioner!

[Timespike]

D&D Legal. You need a law enforcement side too though, if you want to go full CSI D&D.

That's the Guard from the Adventurer's Guide.

 

[Timespike]

Also, the theoretical party as a balanced tank/arcanist/healer/sneaky party..

Guard: Watchman fighter (MoAR Intrigue)
Lawyer: Adjudicator warlock (TT: JJ&E)
Judge: Judge cleric (MoAR Intrigue)
Hangman: Cutthroat rogue (Adventurer's Guide)

Alternate mix:
Guard: Sentinel adept (TT: Scrapper)
Lawyer: Mountebank bard (Adventurer's Guide)
Judge: Advisor wizard (MoAR Intrigue)
Hangman: Executioner berserker (TT: JJ&E)

 

[Faolyn]

D&D Legal. You need a law enforcement side too though, if you want to go full CSI D&D.

An Investigator rogue, Inquisitor herald, Watchman fighter, Judge cleric, Adjucator warlock... sounds like a pretty good party to me!

 

[Timespike]

I want to make this a thing now. They're all in a big city and tasked with dealing with magical crime.

 

[Pedantic]

There is the Zeitgeist: Gears of Revolution adventure path which explicitly has the PCs playing sort of FBI-equivalent law enforcement. You could very much lean in to that angle.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

There is the Zeitgeist: Gears of Revolution adventure path which explicitly has the PCs playing sort of FBI-equivalent law enforcement. You could very much lean in to that angle.

the RHC is honestly more of a mix of CIA and FBI given how liberally they perform operations in foreign nations. you literally

Spoiler: ok but like actual spoiler

kidnap the cousin of a foreign head of state

in an early adventure and get away with it. CIA to the max, baby.

 

[WarDriveWorley]

I want to make this a thing now. They're all in a big city and tasked with dealing with magical crime.

Did you ever read the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Comics from the 80's? I ask because it's set in Waterdeep (because of course it is) and there's significant portions showing the city watch in action (not always favorably, which is why adventurers are needed). Your idea kinda reminded me of that

 

[Timespike]

I never did, no. I'm old enough (44) to have consumed those, but thanks to some parental concerns around "occult themes" at the time, I really didn't have access to much fantasy/horror anything until I was in high school, and I didn't start playing TTRPGs until I was in my early 20s. To my parents' credit, they have mellowed tremendously over time, but back in the 80s, even He-Man was off limits.

 

[WarDriveWorley]

I never did, no. I'm old enough (44) to have consumed those, but thanks to some parental concerns around "occult themes" at the time, I really didn't have access to much fantasy/horror anything until I was in high school, and I didn't start playing TTRPGs until I was in my early 20s. To my parents' credit, they have mellowed tremendously over time, but back in the 80s, even He-Man was off limits.

I feel you. My parents were fine with D&D and comics, but some family members weren't and were vociferous about my hobbies. And this was during the satanic panic (I'm 46).

That said if you can find copies you may want to check them out. They're in no ways high art comics, but they're interesting and have some good ideas to mine.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I feel you. My parents were fine with D&D and comics, but some family members weren't and were vociferous about my hobbies. And this was during the satanic panic (I'm 46).

That said if you can find copies you may want to check them out. They're in no ways high art comics, but they're interesting and have some good ideas to mine.

I am also 46. I consider myself lucky that none of that stuff was an issue for me, although it was for a few of my friends at the time.