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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1491141" data-attributes="member: 5171">That's why your characters need to carry small bags of marijuana with them, so that they can plant them on the bodies of captured bad guys.  "Okay, so that's assault, battery, resisting arrest, AND HEY, several ounces of the Devil's Weed!  All that other stuff was like 8 months, tops, but that's 10 years, mandatory!" <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=":)" />Well, there's reality, and there's reality.  I'd be inclined to go with "rich white guys can always get charges reduced" as a rule of thumb.  The big bad guy might spend two months in a minimum-security prison for illegal weapons charges, the only stuff that actually sticks with him despite everything that might have happened in the adventure.So yes.  Agree.However, a Rich White Guy (according to movie rules, not any real-life political rules) can still make your life miserable.1) The "bank robber" was a mentally distressed man with a wife and children, and the PCs killed him when that level of force was not necessary.2) In the shooting, bystanders were injured, and the BBEG is funding group charges against the PCs for inciting violence when the bank robber hadn't fired yet.3) The PCs are charged with carrying weapons illegally, as noted by others.4) The PCs are charged with endangering children, since there were children nearby when they started shooting.I'm not saying that I believe this would happen in real life, although I believe that each of these legal countermeasures have been used individually by defendants.  This is in no way related to real-life politics.But in the movies, when the heroes take out the bad guy's henchman, the rich white old bad guy can always put some kind of legal hurt on the PCs.  Those are just the "sort of legal" methods.  In movie-methods, the bad guy can make the henchman's gun disappear from evidence and have it replaced with a squirt gun or cap gun (if the bad guy got a chance to shoot) painted black, and then claim that, as gun afficianados themselves, the PCs would obviously have known that the gun was fake and chose to fire anyway.  The villain can even pay the medical bills of an injured witness, provided said witness comes forward and says, "Yes, it was clearly a fake gun, I was there nearby, and when he fired, it sounded no louder than a starter's pistol, but those maniacs just started shooting..."</blockquote>

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