Reminds me of a story (3.5 D&D).
My rogue (actually a ninja/assassin, but close enough, it’s just a rogue with some magic basically), was picking pockets in the town square when a guard noticed me and hauled me off. No contested checks, no grappling, no chance to run, just “guard saw you, now you’re in jail” with the clear intent of “and now I’m going to ignore your character for the rest of this scene”
So I’m sitting in my cell, cuffed, nothing in the hallway outside except for a few barrels, and a whole bunch of time to burn (as the party was busy preparing for a megadungeon). So I make escape artist checks until I’m free, then lock picking checks until I get the door open. That’s when a guard comes by and, when I say I hide, the DM very smugly asks “behind what?” to which I reply “barrels”. The guard realizes my cell is empty and goes to set off an alert, at which point I use invisibility to tail him, then use alter self to impersonate him so I can get my stuff out of the evidence lockers (failing to notice that the secretary was flirting with me (which was completely in character honestly)), then walk out of the cell and back to the party’s house. At which point one of the party members turns me in because they’re lawful and think it’s funny (as did my character, who took none of this seriously and viewed it more like a fun game or challenge (this character had once spent a night nailing tables to the ceiling of a cafe and planned to infiltrate a bakery’s workforce for no reason other than to see if he could) and this time the DM, apparently having enough of my shit, threw me into a “high security” cell the town just so happened to have that was warded with a prismatic wall and all this other high level magical stuff. He also refused to allow me any more attempts to escape.
It was actually one of the most fun sequences I’d ever had in D&D and only much later realized how unfair my DM was being (and probably how annoying my character was for him) and how much he had been trying to railroad my character into spending the day (and thus missing out on the dungeon prepping) in jail because I had wanted to spend some time pickpocketing alongside the other rogue (who was not caught). This was also a DM who once increased the AC of a monster *because* I caught it flatfooted.
Yeah, I have had my share of dealing with judges that were both quite a few times.
This was before the RPGA and Gen Con actually started vetting judges though that never did work all that well due to cliquishness in those organizations.
Reminds me of a story (3.5 D&D).
My rogue (actually a ninja/assassin, but close enough, it’s just a rogue with some magic basically), was picking pockets in the town square when a guard noticed me and hauled me off. No contested checks, no grappling, no chance to run, just “guard saw you, now you’re in jail” with the clear intent of “and now I’m going to ignore your character for the rest of this scene”
So I’m sitting in my cell, cuffed, nothing in the hallway outside except for a few barrels, and a whole bunch of time to burn (as the party was busy preparing for a megadungeon). So I make escape artist checks until I’m free, then lock picking checks until I get the door open. That’s when a guard comes by and, when I say I hide, the DM very smugly asks “behind what?” to which I reply “barrels”. The guard realizes my cell is empty and goes to set off an alert, at which point I use invisibility to tail him, then use alter self to impersonate him so I can get my stuff out of the evidence lockers (failing to notice that the secretary was flirting with me (which was completely in character honestly)), then walk out of the cell and back to the party’s house. At which point one of the party members turns me in because they’re lawful and think it’s funny (as did my character, who took none of this seriously and viewed it more like a fun game or challenge (this character had once spent a night nailing tables to the ceiling of a cafe and planned to infiltrate a bakery’s workforce for no reason other than to see if he could) and this time the DM, apparently having enough of my shit, threw me into a “high security” cell the town just so happened to have that was warded with a prismatic wall and all this other high level magical stuff. He also refused to allow me any more attempts to escape.
It was actually one of the most fun sequences I’d ever had in D&D and only much later realized how unfair my DM was being (and probably how annoying my character was for him) and how much he had been trying to railroad my character into spending the day (and thus missing out on the dungeon prepping) in jail because I had wanted to spend some time pickpocketing alongside the other rogue (who was not caught). This was also a DM who once increased the AC of a monster *because* I caught it flatfooted.
Not to be rude… but your DM sounds like a total jackass. Or at least like he has a grudge against you.
Why not both?
Yeah, I have had my share of dealing with judges that were both quite a few times.
This was before the RPGA and Gen Con actually started vetting judges though that never did work all that well due to cliquishness in those organizations.
Getting out of D&D jail is easy, all you have to do is roll doubles on 2d6 or pay 50 cp three turns after getting put in jail.
“Yeah but… you know… we REALLY need a cleric.”
“I’ll steal one for us.”
“Deal!”
Well played 😀
It’s funny, you say “thief”, you say “compromising positions”, and I start expecting a “rogues do it from behind” joke.