He found out what the laws were, and the legal system, and then went to town on the accusers.
In that case, I'd say you were most definitely the dumbest guy at the table. (Laughing heartily)
(Doing Therapy)
What is the anonymous e-mail you're talking about?
A1nut, no, I am not the criminal.
Though I do have a record, and I'm not shy about mentioning it.
Oh, indeed.
But part of it is if you give the player a well-rounded and fair world, then you're giving him opportunities. And some players are very good at exploiting those, or at least some of them.
I was good at being scarily intimidating. MJ at legal beagle issues.
I'm reminded of the time that our high school chorus was singing at a community location--maybe Christmas carols at a nursing home, not entirely sure--but we were introduced, as the Ramsey High School Chorus under the direction of Doctor Cargate. Mister Cargill turned, and hesitated, and said, "I don't know whether to correct you or not."
My degree is from the Widener University School of Law, formerly the Delaware Law School. In the time that I was there I understand it went from a highly respected small school in the field of commercial law to the largest law school in the country. I don't know whether I could have gone to Harvard in the sense people usually mean, but I could not have gone to Harvard because it was just simply too long a daily commute from South Jersey.
John--it strikes me that your comment displays a failure to understand law as a subject. That is, I spent several years in law school studying law, but I didn't really learn the laws, because that's not the point and not really very useful. In fact, I took Criminal Law my first year, and three years later when I was reading a Bar Prep book I realized that there were several questions based on a Supreme Court decision that had not been made when I took Criminal Law.
Suppose you had graduated from law school in 1965. In 1966, the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision declared that Arizona had failed to protect the guaranteed rights of a defendant named Miranda, and so Miranda's conviction was overturned because he did not know his rights. In 1968, that same court decided that police officers in the State of Ohio had not conducted an illegal search when they stopped a man named Terry on the street, asked him a few questions, patted him down for weapons, and found a concealed weapon which was used against him to obtain a conviction in a criminal conspiracy. You didn't read about either of those cases before you graduated, but they are both major points in the law since then--Miranda Rights and Terry Stops.
What you learn in law school is not all the law that is or every was. You learn how to find out what the law is on any particular point, and how to apply it. Appeals cases are almost always about the question of whether the law means this, or that, and appellate courts including the Supreme Court in the United States and the Queens Court in England are quite commonly declaring that these statutes or ordinances or administrative provisions validly do or do not give certain powers to government or make certain activities legal or illegal.
It's been a while, but as I recall Starsong, I had not even figured out what was happening around me when I was attacked on the street by men with futuristic swords, and I responded in self defense with my kau sin ke and killed them. As it happens, they did not stay dead, because their medical systems restored them to life--which is what they thought would have happened to me, but that I didn't have such medical systems installed in my body. But they took me to court, claiming that I used a ranged weapon in violation of interstellar law. I had to do some research, but I proved that the weapon I used was not properly a ranged weapon and thus was legal, and that I had acted in self defense without notice of the law in question.
And that's what they teach in law school.
--M. J. Young
*looks around the "table" at all the players while exagerratedly singing the baseline to Smooth Criminal*
That song was the reason to play Michael Jackson's Moonwalker :P
Agreed, at least it's on the first stage. =P