So my setting has a few fundamental laws which help govern the universe. The Law of Mortality is basically the law that dictates that living beings get a certain allotment of time and must expire when that time is up. Things such as undead, creation of undead, and the unnatural extension of life are violations of this Law. There IS an allowance for resurrection magic in the law (Basically non-revivify rez spells involve a skill challenge); The law has a specific allowance for a number of Revivifys before it's considered a violation.
The help I'd love to get is writing up the law using vaguely legal language. Anyone got any ideas?
I will offer a warning. If you're going to codify the primordial laws that govern your universe into actual written laws the players can read? You are begging for those players to start playing semantics games with those laws. If modrons have written an OS for the universe, the players will try to hack it, and if you just make arbitrary judgment calls to shoot them down, you're sabotaging your own stated, codified worldbuilding.
So be heckin' careful before writing laws for the universe that you-as-the-DM will be as bound by as the players are. If you do, make sure those rules state exactly what you want them to state and be prepared for the inevitable end-runs.
Something that is key to this is “how is this enforced?” (Since it’s Modrons, is recommend a marut ). And show your players this before they try to break the law.
Some sort of flexibility is required. Mordons do not follow the spirit of the law, and I guarantee that players won't. You should insert some sort of third party to monitor the spirit of the law.
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So my setting has a few fundamental laws which help govern the universe. The Law of Mortality is basically the law that dictates that living beings get a certain allotment of time and must expire when that time is up. Things such as undead, creation of undead, and the unnatural extension of life are violations of this Law. There IS an allowance for resurrection magic in the law (Basically non-revivify rez spells involve a skill challenge); The law has a specific allowance for a number of Revivifys before it's considered a violation.
The help I'd love to get is writing up the law using vaguely legal language. Anyone got any ideas?
What you're going to want is either a lawyer or a contract negotiator who also happens to play D&D. Hopefully you'll get lucky and one will stop by.
Do you want it written in legalese, or in something like poetry?
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Legalese, it was written by Modrons.
OK can't help ya with that. Poetry I might've been able to take a stab at.
WOTC lies. We know that WOTC lies. WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. We know that WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. And still they lie.
Because of the above (a paraphrase from Orwell) I no longer post to the forums -- PM me if you need help or anything.
Look up "awful legalese terms," and you'll get stuff like "aforementioned, wherein, heretofore, shall, wherefore, and assorted latin phrases."
Examples (with explanations)
https://learn.asialawnetwork.com/2017/10/03/common-confusing-legal-words-legalese-explained-simply/
Thanks anyways!
You could do the "resolution" type jargon: a bunch of "Whereas" and then a "therefore be it resolved."
Whereas, life is mortal and finite, and
Whereas the creation of the infinite from the finite is an abomination, and
Whereas.... and
Whereas...
Be it therefore resolved, that no mortal shall ever.... etc.
WOTC lies. We know that WOTC lies. WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. We know that WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. And still they lie.
Because of the above (a paraphrase from Orwell) I no longer post to the forums -- PM me if you need help or anything.
I will offer a warning. If you're going to codify the primordial laws that govern your universe into actual written laws the players can read? You are begging for those players to start playing semantics games with those laws. If modrons have written an OS for the universe, the players will try to hack it, and if you just make arbitrary judgment calls to shoot them down, you're sabotaging your own stated, codified worldbuilding.
So be heckin' careful before writing laws for the universe that you-as-the-DM will be as bound by as the players are. If you do, make sure those rules state exactly what you want them to state and be prepared for the inevitable end-runs.
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Something that is key to this is “how is this enforced?” (Since it’s Modrons, is recommend a marut ). And show your players this before they try to break the law.
Some sort of flexibility is required. Mordons do not follow the spirit of the law, and I guarantee that players won't. You should insert some sort of third party to monitor the spirit of the law.
Well I can kill the dragon, but I don't want to. -my friends last words as he gets burnt to a crisp by an adult red dragon