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Just started running a Judge's campaign in this game, the 3 rookies (2 minor-psi judges doing their basic street judge training and a street judge) by the end of their Final Street Test (a one day supervised expedition to the streets to see how they fare), managed to rack up this impressive count:

5000 Credit fine
417 Years of assorted sentences
19 Life sentences
1 Multiple life sentence

And 3 kills (a civvie with a pistol who got hit by Lawmaster bike cannons and 2 mutants who got into HtH with the judges).

There was also one execution of a mutant, but this was done by Dredd once the Mutie was in custody.

I can't wait for the groups first day as ACTUAL judges.

I am the LAW!!!

didn't know said game existed, the last time I saw a Dredd RPG it was from Games Workshop....

which leads to the questions what would happen if they started policing necromunda...

Me thinks given how easily they rolled through that game that I'm also going to have to through some harder opponents at them. It might be time to pull some ABCs out of storage...

Sounds about par for the course, for MC-1 Judges.

weemadando wrote:Just started running a Judge's campaign in this game, the 3 rookies (2 minor-psi judges doing their basic street judge training and a street judge) by the end of their Final Street Test (a one day supervised expedition to the streets to see how they fare), managed to rack up this impressive count:

5000 Credit fine
417 Years of assorted sentences
19 Life sentences
1 Multiple life sentence

From first read, I thought this was what the rookies got for themselves. But this is what they wound up handing out, right?

I was about to start wondering about the quality (or lack) of the new judges being trained.

That's what they ended up handing out. Though I was close to having Dredd (their supervising officer) bust them at one point for misuse of power.

weemadando wrote:That's what they ended up handing out. Though I was close to having Dredd (their supervising officer) bust them at one point for misuse of power.

Might you elaborate?
If it's for taking advantage of their position (Corruptiuon, bribery such as Rico did), then Dredd would bust them faster than he would blink (If he could blink).
If it's for being authorative/abusing the citizens then it's nonsical, Judge's can pretty much do anything to a citizen for disobeying the law (Within the law and without death or permanent injury), They can effectively bust someone for walking quickly, slowly or not at all.

yes and with previous training classes, he's actually busted class members for overzelousness.

The Yosemite Bear wrote:yes and with previous training classes, he's actually busted class members for overzelousness.

Eh?
I know that it hasn't happened on Hot dog runs, Can you explain where one might found an overstrict Judge? (Saving Judhe Cal of course ).

Actually that was the case where the result was Megacity one's future sport team losing to Megacity two's team. Because the trainee's fined/imprisoned all of MC1's players the night of the championship....

Another notable, when Dredd was training a rookie in one of the comics, the rookie arrests a perp who had been antagonising him about being a rookie and after he's arrested him, slaps him upsides the head and delivers a smart alec remark.

Dredd promptly arrests the rookie for assault of a prisoner and sentences him to 3 months.

have Anderson walk in and bend over to pick something up....

then see which recruits have to pay fines for sexually harrassing thoughts.

weemadando wrote:Another notable, when Dredd was training a rookie in one of the comics, the rookie arrests a perp who had been antagonising him about being a rookie and after he's arrested him, slaps him upsides the head and delivers a smart alec remark.

Dredd promptly arrests the rookie for assault of a prisoner and sentences him to 3 months.

I thought any infraction by a Judge means a one-way trip to Titan? Or is my memory up to shit again?

(And of course, it's Titan, not Aspen, you Hollywood dumbfucks.)

WyrdNyrd wrote:

weemadando wrote:Another notable, when Dredd was training a rookie in one of the comics, the rookie arrests a perp who had been antagonising him about being a rookie and after he's arrested him, slaps him upsides the head and delivers a smart alec remark.

Dredd promptly arrests the rookie for assault of a prisoner and sentences him to 3 months.

I thought any infraction by a Judge means a one-way trip to Titan? Or is my memory up to shit again?

(And of course, it's Titan, not Aspen, you Hollywood dumbfucks.)

You're correct, Any infraction by a Judge leads to them being shipped to Titan for 20 years.
Even Dredd was sent there a few times, (He escaped), as was Rico and the ex-security/SJS head (Who lead a revolt, It wasn't Cal though)

It could be the Dredd only gave him something like 3 months probationary duties or something like that...

actually there was once a mention of judges having certain discretionary powers, as it's physically impossible to go through a day in megacity and not break one of the laws.

to be exact there's a law mandating that citizens must work.
unemployment in megacity is currently at 95%, with everybody on the dole (robots do all the work), The 5% that are self employed are also breaking the law, since MC1 transfers the welfare money into everyone's account anyways, they are committing welfare fraud. the metered amount of air and caloric intake is broken by everyone (which is a good thing because people would start suffering brain damage if they only took as many breaths as MC's laws allow)