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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6778273" data-attributes="member: 29398">Yes, unfortunately a precedent had already been set in that campaign that there was a court system...several, in fact; the Dwarves had their version, the Romans had theirs, and so on. (and I think I lost in every one of them; I'm 0-for-lifetime in these bloody court cases!)Ha!  Nobody ever thought of that...and probably just as well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  The courts in-game seemed to be more for rich people (like us adventuring types) to sue each other, and were also used for regular local justice; very much like our current system IRL.Side tangent: one of the funniest sessions I've ever DMed was a few years ago when a party wanted to put a captive on trial...they were weeks away from civilization so they did it themselves, appointing roles by drawing party-member names out of a hat (so one was randomly appointed as the judge, one was the prosecutor, one was the defense counsel, etc.) and taking it from there.  What a wonderful disaster!  The end result was the judge sentenced the captive to a year's community service...but as the party was the only community around she'd (without realizing it until it was pointed out later) in effect just sentenced the captive - who was a competent Mage - to join the party for a year.  This didn't sit well with some of the party, a round of murderous infighting ensued leading to the deaths of the captive and two party members, and the in-game fallout went on for months.  The players, meanwhile, were laughing their heads off the whole time; and I-as-DM got to sit back and enjoy the show! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lanefan</blockquote>

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