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What are some unusual local laws you or your players came up with.
My players declared all Will-O-Wisps illegal. Being a will-o-wisp is a crime that caries the death sentence. Harboring a will-o-wisp earn you the death penalty.
How about you and your group?
Well at the moment, the only written laws are in our constitution, and can be found in this thread. But an interesting interpretation of those rules is that use of enchantment spells is considered a violation of the Second Right (the right to speak your mind) and thus carries the same penalties as treason.
My group has instituted a justice system that avoids imprisonment, and instead focuses on restitution for damages done (or restitution x2, x3 or x5 for more severe and repeat offenders). If funds aren't available for restitution, labor is owed to the injured party or the state. The jail is only used to hold people until trial. For the most severe crimes, banishment and execution are called for. No lengthy jail sentences to turn amateur criminals into professional criminals.
As indicated in another thread, they have also instituted harsh anti-slavery laws, to the point where slave-owners (even those just passing through) have their slaves freed, a second offense brings banishment, and a third offense execution.
My players declared all Will-O-Wisps illegal. Being a will-o-wisp is a crime that caries the death sentence. Harboring a will-o-wisp earn you the death penalty.
My group has a very similar law to this one, except replace the word "will-o-wisp" with "radish" - seriously.
I believe they have plans on cornering the market and driving up prices by making them illegal.
My players declared all Will-O-Wisps illegal. Being a will-o-wisp is a crime that caries the death sentence. Harboring a will-o-wisp earn you the death penalty.
My group has a very similar law to this one, except replace the word "will-o-wisp" with "radish" - seriously.
I believe they have plans on cornering the market and driving up prices by making them illegal.
Just how viable is a radish based black market?
Just how viable is a radish based black market?My players declared all Will-O-Wisps illegal. Being a will-o-wisp is a crime that caries the death sentence. Harboring a will-o-wisp earn you the death penalty.
My group has a very similar law to this one, except replace the word "will-o-wisp" with "radish" - seriously.
I believe they have plans on cornering the market and driving up prices by making them illegal.
In my game I basically made the moon radishes the equivalent of Viagra for humans and crack for kobolds. Check out the profit figures for Pfizer since they introduced Viagra to see how valuable it could be if they cornered the market. And that's not even considering the crack angle if you have a decent kobold population nearby.
Wow! will-o-wisp haters! :)
not so much "haters" as not liking tough battles. They have Good defense and offense against everything... Except will-o-wisps. Their first encounter with a will-o-wisp did more damage than anything prior. A WOW brought the fighter down to negative hp (almost single-handedly). Then there was the island of WOW that they ran from and have yet to return. Oh and I gave the trolls their own kind of WOW, a troll-o-wisp. Hence why they are illegal.
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Wow! will-o-wisp haters! :)not so much "haters" as not liking tough battles. They have Good defense and offense against everything... Except will-o-wisps. Their first encounter with a will-o-wisp did more damage than anything prior. A WOW brought the fighter down to negative hp (almost single-handedly). Then there was the island of WOW that they ran from and have yet to return. Oh and I gave the trolls their own kind of WOW, a troll-o-wisp. Hence why they are illegal.
A glowing smiley face constantly repeating "U Mad?" in Aklo would probably get my players to ban them too.
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A glowing smiley face constantly repeating "U Mad?" in Aklo would probably get my players to ban them too.Wow! will-o-wisp haters! :)not so much "haters" as not liking tough battles. They have Good defense and offense against everything... Except will-o-wisps. Their first encounter with a will-o-wisp did more damage than anything prior. A WOW brought the fighter down to negative hp (almost single-handedly). Then there was the island of WOW that they ran from and have yet to return. Oh and I gave the trolls their own kind of WOW, a troll-o-wisp. Hence why they are illegal.
Holy crap! Your peeps love you huh?! :)
Any disputes that couldn't be settled amicably, were resolved by a dance off.
Them's the breaks of GMing Kingmaker for 5th graders. :-)
Wolves are highly protected within the kingdom by law. Blame having a Worg on the council.
Beyond that, most of the things my players enforce are due to social custom and expectation rather than stated law. Things like having no allowance for kill-on-sight for nearly any species or creature short of undead and evil outsiders; any other creature can and has been allowed to make itself at home as long as it doesn't make trouble.