D&D story time.
I was running the first sesson of a new campaign. Everyone starting at level 1. We had an Elf Druid, a Half Elf ranger, a Dragonborn Sorcerer, and a Tiefling Rouge. As the party was going through introductions,
5’2 90 lb. Tiefling “I don’t like to be touched.”
6’3 250 lb. Dragonborn “I pat her on the head.”
Tiefling “I bite his hand”
Ok so you bite his hand… roll to hit
Rolls NAT20.
Roll 1d4 damage…?
Rolls 4 doubles to 8
Dragonborn sorcerer only has 8 hp.
Ok so you bite his hand off and he is now bleeding out.
No one has any healing pots or magic. All level 1 charactors.
Dragonborn rolls 3 on death save.
Next save Nat 1.
-she actually let her owners touch her without feeding her. even queen fattyfats doesn’t let me touch her even if I’ve got a handful of food directly in front of her face. I doubt Hanako liked being pet much, but she still let them do it, which is pretty impressive.
-she recognized her owners’ faces and footsteps, and apparently would rush over when they called her name. once again, without food, although I can’t imagine that she wasn’t assuming it was food time.
-everyone who owned her was convinced that she’d die for them, and at least her last owner felt that it was a mutual thing.
-I cry about her a lot. she was just a good fish who loved people and I get very emotional ;_;
Imagine if other crimes had the same fine gradations of culpability as murder does? Like, going to court and arguing that you didn’t commit tax evasion per se, you merely acted with reckless disregard for the possibility that tax evasion might occur, and should thus receive a lesser penalty.
Premeditated illegal parking vs illegal parking as a crime of passion.
Overdressed & Underappreciated 