Shattered Kingdoms

Mechanically, I agree that it would give rogues a huge upper hand and everyone else pretty much gets jipped. I'm not saying it'd be impossible for another class to benefit from this, but it is clearly more likely that a rogue would more commonly benefit.

Roleplay wise, it would fit in with the disorientation one receives upon returning to life. I've played characters who just completely forget everything that happened the day or so prior to their death, and it can be fun, if a bit inconvenient. Not everyone wants to roleplay like that, and that's understandable.

I'm on the fence. I'm not opposed to the idea, but I feel as if it's a little too op. Maybe if there were a counter for it, such as Achernar's faith spell allowing the recently returned to remember crimes along with the other effect it has (which I'm not sure if I'm allowed to clarify here, so safe > sorry). Or perhaps the victim's natural wisdom, if high enough, would negate that effect. Iunno.

It's just a terrible idea, mechanically and rpishly. Can you imagine the RP?

You could substitute some sort of darkie manipulating the law code for their own gain rp if you wanted.

Let's not suddenly decide to make death a completely different experience than it is. Dying has never been a huge deal in SK, just a fact of life for an adventurer. Maybe traumatic at times and hard on the body and soul (spirit disorientation) but definitely a fact of life.

Um, I picture it more like this, actually.

That's not very kind. I have ideas all the time and post stuff that would equally help or hurt me. This would benefit anyone who cleaned up their messes; it'd actually probably hurt rogues more than others because rogues typically end fights with lag on their end, allowing reporting NPCs and PCs to get a head start on them out of the room.

I am not suggesting that you forget what happened to you. Suchandsuch and "you" in your log would definitely have a great basis for hunting down Suchandsuch's murderer. However, RPishly, if they went to the judge and said "Hey! Soandso killed Suchandsuch!", then the judge would say "Prove it" and all they'd be able to say is "well, really, I mean it!".

MPT responded well to you.

I don't think my track record shows that I have any sort of history of trying to dodge crimes, manipulate the code, or otherwise get out of misdeeds. Also, I think that as shown with Wudan's N. Wastes banishment, even if a character "gets away with it" by the code if they're an obvious rampant criminal KDs may be prevailed upon to hand out banishment. I am not proposing a scenario in which murderers run rampant in every kingdom thumbing their noses at the law.

However, I do I think that if this were implemented it'd open up the possibility of having characters who commit very few crimes, but have a chance of getting away with them. Realistically this would require great RP (because even if you're not on the law list, you don't get away with it if everyone believes you did it and treats you accordingly, so you have to RPishly cast doubt on your victim's accusations against you) and good tactics (cleaning up yr mess). It'd also make it much easier to get away with a crime in the wilderness than in a city, which kinda makes sense to me.

The rare triple post. One thing you brought to mind, that I agree with, is that tribunal characters should be exempt from this code in the nation they patrol. Naturally they would have cachet with local Judges and their credibility wouldn't be questioned if they reported someone's attack on them or others, whether or not they'd died before reporting it.

I've always imagined judges as having access to true seeing and maybe some form of perfect lie detection magic.

I'm not suggesting that the current system somehow creates an inconsistent game world. With the system the way it is I agree that's a good way to interpret it. I am suggesting a change to that.

That change seems like a bad idea all around, especially when there are already so many ways to not be reported for crimes.

Not sure how abused this may become but what if a rogue that kills someone under a guise, when the person reports them the guise is reported. If that char uses that guise again, they are charged with the prior crime. If they change their guise and do x more crimes, within different time periods, not just one single stacking event, the authorities catch on and change the wanted poster to the rogue's.