D&D Court: Unfair Immunities, Passive Plunders and the Prone Dino Dilemma

I wish I could have a dnd group that is more loose like naddpod or as if we were doing it for entertainment. Because sometimes irl dnd is so boring. Theater of the mind dnd is way more fun.

listening to this at work and fucking CRYING at the huey dewey and louie segment 😭😭

Emily being consistently baffled by all of pop culture is the gift that keeps on giving

Sorry sir i dont speak cheese bricks with extra tomato sauce and crossant tea party

Chipp n dale brunch energy is off the charts

*sudden jarring hell duck noise* ... (normal, abashed) ... kinda

They should have called Ben Schwartz as their phone a friend to straighten out the Duck Tales mess.

strongly disagree with the initial take on the stolen map under the clothes. if you don't allow players to do something that isn't possible why are you letting NPCs do it? sometimes a thing can't be done. in the same way that even a 35 on persuasion isn't enough to convince a king to give you their kingdom that a 35 on sleight of hand isn't going to let you steal something on the other side of a wall

On the drink theft question: having worked at DD in HS which yes is not Starbucks but has essentially the same drink pickup set up and level of personal accountability & ease of theft, I was genuinely shocked by how uncommon drink theft was. I worked abt 12-15 hrs a week for roughly two years and in the entire time I was there, there was truly only one instance where a drink that I was 100% had been made and set out went missing and there was no unaccounted drink or or yet made drink order left in its stead. The most common “drink theft” we dealt w/ was customers accidentally grabbing the wrong drink, and then realizing as much upon sipping it. Some of them were genuinely mortified by their mistake and super apologetic but sadly most such situation were entitled assholes who IMMEDIATELY after ordering, grabbed someone else’s drink and then complained that we’d gotten their drink wrong. Occasionally, drinks that we were certain we’d made and set out did go missing but save for the one time I mentioned above, there was always either an unaccounted for drink or a drink order that upon its creation,went unclaimed, left in the missing drinks wake. All that said, I will say that occasionally a Larger sized speciality latte or some other one of our pricier drinks that we’d def made&set out, went missing and the drink left in its wake would be a notably smaller, simpler and cheaper drink— ya know like something ranging b/w a a small black hot coffee and “a regular coffee”(Med hot coffee w 2 cream, 2 sugar) which is kinda innately sus. And I mean ok, I will say; when the order was a med or large hot drink and a med coffee was left unaccounted for, that while the notable price dif was enough to make me question how unintentional the mixup truly was, the drinks looked similiar enough externally that it def coulda been an innocent mistake HOWEVER, there were like idk prolly 3, maaaybe 4(?) instances where I’m damn near positive that the person intentionally took someone else’s better/much pricier order bc the missing drink was either (A) A large or XL and the ordered drink was a small. Honestly a 2+ size dif from a medium was also incredibly sus but w a small it was imo, damning bc how dif the small hot cups and their lids were From all the other sizes: OR(and this was def the main giveaway) (B) cold and thus anotably dif temperature, in an entirely different cup, and generally speaking was visibly, obviously and fundamentally v much not drip coffee, iced or otherwise

Skwaiter. That is all.

I’m not gonna lie I don’t follow

Duckcourt

I’m so late. But fuck I love when Murph the one to get off the rails. This man and his duck 🤣🤣🤣

I’d rather drink dip spit then ever listen to Caldwell make duck voice while while wearing headphones

Duck Tales one shot when?

The pathetic slug who wishes he could be someone's worm wife, Bailiff Flake

Where are they using the Pyromancer option from Kaladesh

I’m currently a law student, and two weeks ago I ordered Starbucks mobile order at 8:25 to pick up while walking to my 9:20 class. When I got there at 8:45, my food was ready but drink was not and Starbucks staff told me it was coming. I waited until 9:10, and staff then told me someone had probably stolen it. They did make me another, but it does ruin a morning, for sure.

I haven’t stolen from Starbucks - but I do make a mobile order at Dunkin every morning. I’ve had my coffee stolen once and the Dunkies people replaced it. It’s pretty safe overall I think.

dont you mean sweet blue nephew?

I'm hoping for a Dragonbane all Mallard One Shot now

I need to speak on that T-Rex case. Does that DM think that T-Rexes DON'T SLEEP??! DO THEY THINK THESE SHREDDED LIZARDS JUST LIVE A CURSED EXISTENCE, WHERE GOING TO SLEEP MEANS CERTAIN DOOM?!?! WOULDN'T THAT SHIT HAVE EVOLVED ITSELF OUT OF EXISTENCE WITHIN A SINGLE GENERATION?!?!?!

I love Richard Scarry books...they're the most useful to read with kids when you're teaching them stuff

Emily, I'm sorry. What is a "nine of cat tails?"

I love the short rest energy of this episode

Starbucks barista here. People steal the drinks at handoff all the time and then we have to remake them for free. It is the bane of my existence

So many good quotes during the “duck tales” section. Jake: “I’m editing a document.” Murph: “Louie’s my guy.”

I think science has proven that a t-rex prone. How many fossils of t-rex's are found standing? Seems like they all died while prone to me. 👀

this is the most frustrating episode of dnd court, i’ve worked with flintstones but this was unbearable

The best cover!

Humble bailiff Jake, they keep you lowly not because you are weak but because you are TOO strong.

Emily, I'm not gay, but I will be stealing and marrying your husband. It's nothing personal.

Caldwell you're delulu thinking you could swallow dirt to make mouth room, you wouldn't be able to even move your jaw

Beautiful picture :)

the “Childhood Louie” took me out

I love these podcasts but I swear they do fewer and fewer every episode. What they got through three cases this episode lol

As a dinosaur guy, the T-Rex case was *infuriating*

The Murph and Louie pic is so freaking cute. Murph looks so happy. :)

Why am I not surprised that Caldwell has a (incredibly cursed) Donald/Heroic Huey/ Lazy Louie/ Blue Nephew impression

I think the Crit got the case of the stolen map wrong. The fundamental rule of skill checks is that you only roll one if success is possible. The PC in this situation had created a scenario where it would be impossible for someone to remove the map from their person without them noticing, so the NPC should not have been able to make a roll. The PC should have simply automatically noticed them making the attempt.

as a starbucks barista people surprisingly don't steal drinks that much! and the thefts that do happen are mostly done by the oldest people imaginable, so i assume they're just confused

I died when Emily said nine o' cattails.

The Duck/McDuck family tree is really something, Scrooge was born in 1867, making him 156 years old, and not only that, his parents are alive and well, living in Scotland

I don't know that I've ever laughed so hard during a Court episode. Truly gutbusting!

Life is like a hurricane here in Duckberg. Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes, it's a duck-blur! Might solve a mystery, or REWRITE HISTORY! DUCKTALES, WOO-OO!

What a great way to start the day

So fun fact about dinosaurs: We DO know a little something about their musculature. Certain bone structures are usually muscle attachment sites, so based on the size of those structures, comparison to living species, and evolutionary relationships, paleontologists have worked out a lot of information about dinosaur muscles.

Beetle bailiff didn't come up?

Literally so insane to suggest that a T Rex never LAID DOWN?! How did they sleep? What is that DM even talking about??

T-Rexes in theory would have used their tails to stand back up, since their tails were like super strong extra limbs for balance, and a majority of their body length. -Dino Lover 🦖

I think maybe for the Witch Coven DM, they could've looked at some Hags abilities, there might have been something there for the DM to use as an excuse to get his Hag out of there? idk though (regardless naturally I agree w the ruling!) And for the Map-Perception case, I assume they might not have wanted to raise suspicion/"metagaming" by asking for an active perception check, so is there a world where they just ask that player for a "luck check" and add their perception stuff in secret? I'm not sure if DMs usually have a copy of their players character sheets, but I've heard some do, so maybe that could've worked (?). All in all great episode no notes (Duckberg One-Shot pls)

I did not believe there was going to be an actual duck and was so happily suprised

Sweet blue nephew

I don’t understand them sometimes. It says right in the rules that they read that constant actions like constantly rolling active perception is just folded into passive perception. They contradicted themselves in the next sentence and spent the rest of that case reinforcing why it would be passive, but came to the conclusion that it is active constantly. They are so difficult to follow sometimes.

Jesus Christ the ducktales case is just unlistenable

This is the cutest picture of Murph ever taken

absolutely off the rails, we love to see it folks

Here for the duck family tree

Despite the fact they had no real discernible personalities or differences in the original Ducktales, I too am a Louie stan. Truly the superior duck. Of course Murph would see the obviousness of this irrefutable fact.

Duckburg one shot?

So ready for Anduckstry.com!

Week 2 of waiting for the Sweet Blue Hole cut

We will need a better picture of that bookcase and it’s contents 👀

The short rest energy is strong in this one 😂

hear ye hear ye SHUT UP

I haven’t listen to this episode yet but it’s so good to see Murph’s face in the thumbnail.

Love the description, absolutely incomprehensible

Am I having a stroke reading the description?

I can’t wait to find out wtf is up with that super cute picture 😂

Also on my 4th play thought of the pod, on C2E3!!!

Yay was looking for something to listen to while stuck sick at home!

Fuckin quack quack!!!

Dam!! 1130 here in Ontario, now I have someone to listen to while I travel the stars tonight.

LATE NIGHT SURPRISE (West Coast) ❤️❤️❤️❤️