Our DM just passed us the list of penalties for breaking the law in Waterdeep, an image of the book, and noticed the following:
Penalization for Assaulting a Noble: Flogging, imprisonment for a Tenday, fine up to 500GP.
Penalization for Assaulting a regular citizen: the exact same thing but the fine is up to 1000GP.
Please don't get me wrong, I'm not a classist person IRL, just that ingame it seems odd that it's not the other way around, why is the penalization for assaulting a noble less than the penalization for assaulting a regular citizen?
Buying modules on Roll20 and/or DnDBeyond really helps with this major shortcoming with the hardcover books, but then you’re looking at potentially buying three similar or identical products to run one module which is its own problem.
My personal example: I’m running ToA right now on Roll20. I love the book and wanted the hardcover. $30 on sale. It’s much easier to learn the material and prep for a session with the hardcover. The Roll20 module was $50. So helpful to have hyperlinks and all the maps and statted tokens done already. However, when we’re playing and I still can’t quickly find what I need, I search the module on DnDBeyond. $25. That’s about $100 for one module. I’m lucky that my https://100001****/ group chipped in for Roll20 and our completionist player buys and shares everything on DnDBeyond so it isn’t all on me, but that’s a lot. Even if we could play in person, I’d still want to supplement the book with the DnDBeyond copy because the book doesn’t have a simple index.
Our DM just passed us the list of penalties for breaking the law in Waterdeep, an image of the book, and noticed the following:
Penalization for Assaulting a Noble: Flogging, imprisonment for a Tenday, fine up to 500GP.
Penalization for Assaulting a regular citizen: the exact same thing but the fine is up to 1000GP.
Please don't get me wrong, I'm not a classist person IRL, just that ingame it seems odd that it's not the other way around, why is the penalization for assaulting a noble less than the penalization for assaulting a regular citizen?
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Nobles have bodyguards that will happily assault you back, regular citizens don’t so the fines are steeper
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Our DM just passed us the list of penalties for breaking the law in Waterdeep, an image of the book, and noticed the following:
Penalization for Assaulting a Noble: Flogging, imprisonment for a Tenday, fine up to 500GP.
Penalization for Assaulting a regular citizen: the exact same thing but the fine is up to 1000GP.
Please don't get me wrong, I'm not a classist person IRL, just that ingame it seems odd that it's not the other way around, why is the penalization for assaulting a noble less than the penalization for assaulting a regular citizen?
Buying modules on Roll20 and/or DnDBeyond really helps with this major shortcoming with the hardcover books, but then you’re looking at potentially buying three similar or identical products to run one module which is its own problem.
My personal example: I’m running ToA right now on Roll20. I love the book and wanted the hardcover. $30 on sale. It’s much easier to learn the material and prep for a session with the hardcover. The Roll20 module was $50. So helpful to have hyperlinks and all the maps and statted tokens done already. However, when we’re playing and I still can’t quickly find what I need, I search the module on DnDBeyond. $25. That’s about $100 for one module. I’m lucky that my https://100001****/ group chipped in for Roll20 and our completionist player buys and shares everything on DnDBeyond so it isn’t all on me, but that’s a lot. Even if we could play in person, I’d still want to supplement the book with the DnDBeyond copy because the book doesn’t have a simple index.
Nobles have bodyguards that will happily assault you back, regular citizens don’t so the fines are steeper
Wisea$$ DM and Player since 1979.