D&D Court: Bonus Cases - The Sharkey Sidebar
Dungeon Court is STILL in session! Join Justices Murphy, Axford and Tanner, as well the Shire's Own Bailiff Hurwitz, as they continue to pass judgement on your trials at the table!
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Sound Mixing and Editing by Trevor Lyon
Dungeon Court Theme Song by Sam Weiller
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As a long islander, hearing Jake say "in long Island" makes my eye twitch lmfao
Instead of on*
My last name is Sharkey and I didn’t know that .. also having a nickname as Sharkey has been great in high school but I feel triggered when an adult says my last name
Sharkey case: Kinda baffled why no one at the table even tried to clue in the cleric? I feel that so many of these could be solved by 5 minutes of normal human interaction 😅
Caldwell is correct, in the books Sauramon gets his ass kicked in the shire
My dm has the dumbest homebrew damage rule: if you take -10 damage past 0 then you instantly die, no death saves. I lost a character because of this rule at level 4 as a barbarian.
That's not too bad. In Pathfinder 1e (and maybe dnd 3.5, not sure) you die if your hit points hit negative your constitution score.
The only part Caldwell got wrong is that merry and popping do not kill saruman, everything else was right and there was a bit of a wrongful razz here
DM Jake when
Looks like your DM Jake dreams are coming true!
Oh my god I almost died laughing at that bbeg dragon chugging health potions
Shout-out to the Scouring of the Shire, one of the best chapters of the series. Also Caldwell was right about a lot! Merry and Pippin do drink the ent draught and get huge and while they don't kick Saruman's ass specifically, they kick his henchmen's asses and inspire all the hobbits to kick Saruman out.
It's one of my favourite epilogues ever! They went to war with evil itself, and now there's some bozos fucking up their home? Of course they'll just fold them like a cheap shirt!
this is why Adventurer's League exists, for people to drop in to adventures but with level tier caps so no one feels left out.
I live for Murphbot
Knowing the Sharkey lore now makes me want to one day ask Steven Colbert about it to see if I can stump him
There is no stumping Stephen Colbold when it comes to the deep lore of middle earth.
Y’all should also do like advice column style episodes!
DO I NEED TO READ LORD OF THE RINGS NOW?? HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?????
It's alot of reading to get to. It's the very last chapter in the book.
The comments trying to vilify the sandwich guy's DM are so wild to me. First of all, mixed level parties are exactly how Official Adventurer's League games work - yes, usually Tier 1 is only levels 1-5, but a good DM can make level 6 work. I've definitely done it when I've had low turnout at an event and the level 1 characters were able to play in a way that was balanced and felt important and ultimately led to massive XP. That definitely could have happened here if the healer decided to play instead of mocking the encounter. Secondly, and much more importantly, no one was complaining about how the DM ran the session - not the players who died and not the sandwich cleric who was eager to play again. I cannot believe that if literally anyone here had a player at their table that ROLLED TO EAT A SANDWICH instead of healing while the PCs were dying and the DM made the decision not to invite them back, their response would be anything other than, "Good riddance." 🙄🙄 Totally different scenario if he tried his best or even role played feeling too weak to fight and cowering...but sitting on a hill watching his compatriot dies and eating a sandwich is fucking sociopath behavior. I wouldn't want him at my table either.
Hey Landon! Thank you for letting me know! I admit, It was my first time playing and didn't know anybody there or the social norms in the game, but I learned and I'll do better next time! Next time I'll either die with honor or role play correctly 🫡
I know it would be bad but I would absolutely devour a Murphbot one shot
While you were partying I studied the key
Peregrine and MERRYWEATHER?! It’s Meriadoc! Merryweather is the blue fairy in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty 🤣🤣🤣
i assumed the dragon was going to get some allies lol. i think that's another way to handle something like this–have the boss summon a few minions. nothing crazy powerful but something else on the battlefield the player needs to deal with. actually it occurs to me bg3 has loads of creative ways to handle people potentially one shotting their guys. The orin fight is built to be impervious to one shots, and the second hag fight (in baldurs gate) she has loads of regenerative flowers...this dm should just play bg3 as "punishment" and get loads of potential ideas
The Gunks Gaming Guild in New Paltz, NY hosts big games like that (the case with the underleveled cleric) and they just have different days for different level groups ie; newbie group-all lvl 2s, aspiring adventurers-lvl 3-5, etc. It’s super fun!
Unfathomably bad calls on the level 1 cleric. Reserving judgment on the DM based on whether he would have killed the cleric for helping is deeply silly when we already know this is a DM who made a new player start at level 1 in a level 6 party and then didn't accommodate the session to the presence of an inexperienced player and low-level character.
I think everyone had their best intentions. If nothing else, I agreed to join the group knowing they were such high level. It was my first time and didn't really know how to play, but maybe I really just didn't read the room well enough in the moment. I'm still playing today and DM most the time, and am glad I got to learn the social component of the game! Anyway, I accept my punishment :)
I’m no expert, but “West marches” is the kind of style of dnd where a large amount of player characters engage with a world in this rotating way like with the lvl 1 cleric. My question is whether they’d even deserve any exp if the party had succeeded while the cleric walked the fine line between the right amount of mustard and too much mustard.
That was probably it! I don't know for sure though. I had fun though, and now know how to be a better player at the table!
All this kissing means we need another choose your own adventure book for romance
Isn’t the revolver with the names a direct copy of Vox Machina?
For sure, everything but a demon haunting it. I wonder what Taliesin Jaffe's inspiration was? I'm sure I've seen bullets inscribed with names in other media, but multi-barrel style weapons are uncommon.
I feel kinda bad for the cleric. It sounds like a new player not knowing the social norms of dnd and honestly being thrown into a kind of overwhelming situation. They deserve a second chance
Its all good! I had an opportunity to learn how to play a little more socially, and I still play today! In fact, I DM most the time. Long story short, I accept my punishment, have learned from it, and am happy :)
What about cooter? The cleric is a lot like cooter vs the tarrasque
can anyone remind me when did ryan urphy dm'ed, i need to relisten that ep.
I think Ryan urphy was mostly a short rest bit. If I recall correctly it started or at least returned in eldermourne when the party faced one of the high level enemies while still mid level. Sadly the only other details I can remember contain spoilers and I don’t have the time at the moment to search through episode summaries to give a better time line.
Honestly had a similar situation with the Black Dragon and I can't wait til next dungeon court cause maybe I can finally have my case heard
I think they were way off base with the level 1 cleric. It sounds like the DM gave them a completely unbalanced encounter. Healing in 5th edition isn’t that good, a healing word or cure wounds from a level one cleric isn’t gonna sway the fight in their favor.
Yeah I was stunned by how hard they went on this cleric without really bringing up how cruel it is to throw a new player to the wolves as a 1st-level character in a 6th-level party on deadly encounters. In what actual world does the cleric get to "save everybody" with spare the dying? He'd have been down in a single hit, dude had like 10 hp. If anyone was disengaged, it was the DM failing to facilitate the new player.
I love hearing the follow ups. Can we just get a whole episode of that?
The Conjuration Wizard was actually completely buttoned up, "Starting at 2nd level when you select this school, you can use your action to conjure up an inanimate object in your hand or on the ground in an unoccupied space that you can see within 10 feet of you. This object can be no larger than 3 feet on a side and weigh no more than 10 pounds, and its form must be that of a nonmagical object that you have seen. The object is visibly magical, radiating dim light out to 5 feet."
Honestly the black dragon wouldn't have been nearly as bad if it hadn't drank the potions
Not Another Door & Door Podcast
I love how Mr Bubbles's warforged went full De Rolo
That DOES happen in the books. It ends in the shire. It’s literally the best part of all of the books. And I excitedly waited for the last part of the last movie to cover the last part of the books…. I was SO disappointed as a teenager. I still turn off the Return of the King movie before it gets to the very end
From a cinematic standpoint having 2 massive climatic battles and the macguffin being destroyed... only to have to go do a whole other climatic end conflict just never would have worked
The Honerable Justices Brian Turkey, Emily Axbird, Ca Caldwell Tanner.
And the Bailiff Drake
Once the DM is done making those doors, if anyone can eat them in under 2 years...
Sharky was an unhinged choice of alias but it is canon
Pulling an all nighter to finish the last of my grad work for my masters degree tonight. Thank y’all for keeping me company! P. S. Come back to Medford!
I haven't seen Murph get this worked up since Emily got that bucket hat
Could the key situation have been solved by saying the door is locked from the outside? Maybe there’s just no keyhole from the inside
Yeah but this still feels (to me) like an unsatisfying "no" that doesn't reward the player
Just finished a relisten of hot boys of summer and this title makes me heart broken we never had a shark sidebar. Imagine Mac sidebarring with a shark is making me giggle edit: hearing now WHAT sharkey is about I’m now imagining Mac having a sidebar with THAT sharkey lmao
nah I'm team lvl1 cleric, bro has like 2 or 3 slots at best and like 10 hp at best. Hard pass on running with 5 lvl 6 guys
Just doin my best out there 😅 Thats ok. I had fun!
I feel like that first DM got the shaft. Like Emily said, conjuration doesn't equal replication. The wizard could certainly have conjured a convincing looking key but it's fully within the DMs purview to say it's not going to match the exact size and pin length to open this specific lock.
Agree they could have made the "no" more interesting. I think I'm just annoyed that the submittor thinks "you wouldn't be able to gauge the precise shape of a key by sight from half a room away" is the same as saying "you can't wild shape unless you as a player understand a crab's anatomy." Lol
Croissanting The Birdlesque: The Rise Of Cawcawldwell
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