I took a sacred oath, sir! I can’t serve you Mr 40 year old Drow or I become an oathbreaker. Sorry, not sorry.
Meanwhile, "Let’s see… anthropomorphic mosquito… Let me see that ID. You’re 2 hours old? That checks out, here’s your bourbon.
I know a lot of people homebrew this to be different in their games and that’s fine, but just to clarify to anyone curious, if we’re talking D&D 5e, elves mature at the same rate as humans, and the reason they only consider themselves adults at 100 is purely cultural.
You broke your oath with the last sentence.
How does sarcasm break my oath? As a lawful paladin I don’t care if they’re mad about being blocked from doing something illegal.
Now I’m just imagining the
veganpaladin police “oh yea”-ing through the tavern wall and giving you paladin oath tickets.“What do you stealing that healing potion is against my oath? No one caught me!”
I’m confused. In what way does sarcasm break paladin oaths? Not even devotion paladins would break their oaths via sarcasm. Here are the tenets of a devotion paladin:
Tenets of Devotion
Though the exact words and strictures of the Oath of Devotion vary, paladins of this oath share these tenets.
Honesty. Don’t lie or cheat. Let your word be your promise.
Courage. Never fear to act, though caution is wise.
Compassion. Aid others, protect the weak, and punish those who threaten them. Show mercy to your foes, but temper it with wisdom.
Honor. Treat others with fairness, and let your honorable deeds be an example to them. Do as much good as possible while causing the least amount of harm.
Duty. Be responsible for your actions and their consequences, protect those entrusted to your care, and obey those who have just authority over you.
As you can see sarcasm isn’t mentioned.
Kelek’s breath, I was mostly being facetious!
In all honestly, I don’t believe it would be, but I’m sure it’s a trait viewed as less than appropriate as it could be viewed as rubbing against the ideals of honor and honesty.
sarcasm is lying with a tone that is supposed to indicate irony. it IS lying tho
Well, the way Oath is worded, I would say that nothing was promised and in that way sarcasm is not a lie. But maybe that’s more about rules as written against as intended.
so it says here cyborg elvish catboomer
hmm…I can only offer a dragon’s vegan tonic with 2 Karmotrine or a pearl of shapeshifting water
if you aren’t satisfied with our current selection please come back in 2 cycles, I’ll make sure my successor will be able to better serve you with an expanded menu
Ah yes “optional” karmotrine. Which to me means fill the rest of the drink with it.
lol😂
it’s time to mix drinks and change lives
I feel like it would be the same as countries outside the US: If you can reach over the bar to order, you’re allowed to drink.
So it must really suck to be a gnome or halfling.
I live in the UK and you still get ID checks for many places. It’s not as lax as you make out, although it definitely depends on the specific establishment you are talking about.
Legal drinking ages are such a modern invention though. It’s kind of funny but a weird fit for sure.
This concept goes so well in a spelljammer like setting. Imagine the Laughing Beholder with large Luigi doing this. “Okay, what sphere are you from again? Okay, next I need your planet, then your species, then your age.”
EDIT:
Noncombat or low combat adventure idea that just came to me based on this. A group of grifters has conned Large Luigi or your version of this bar owner by posing as an interplanetary or interplanes alcohol enforcement agency. They pulled a fake sting and made off with something precious of the innkeepers as a fine. The party either hears this from the barkeep when they order or from the other patrons who are fed-up with the arcane ID system and long waits on drinks. Only recovering the fine or capturing the grifters can the situation be set right.
“…Unless you’re dextro like me. Then it’ll kill ya.”
Not fantasy, but in the SciFi book the Draco Tavern is about the only alien bar on earth wherein the owner has to be careful not to feed his guests any poison that would be delicacies on Earth.
So we are ignoring jurisdiction? … Well… even if we ignore the possibility of an infinite universe, tracking hundreds of thousands of legal systems and species biology (what is intoxicating to whom, the cognitive self-development thresholds, how much of a substance one may serve to whom) and being able authenticate/verify an ID (we have photo-ids, but maybe others are different)… like a slime-species that identifies each other by smell… or taste… I’m confident that for any interesting set size, this would actually be an unsolvable problem.
A universal biometric verifier checking against approved ID cards could be interesting in a setting like that
What are like characters ? characters that are similar ? alike ?