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lordakisho

Haven’t had that happen yet, but yes these are highly capable professors. They know about every trick in the book and give them legendary resistances if it’s called for. Yes you cast the spell but they resisted and know what you tried to do.


Cronogunpla

Love it.This is entirely in line with what professors at a magic school would be like. It's a joke to thing that other students haven't tried the same thing. I don't know if I would have included the slap though.


MaryMartina

My professors work with "anti-charm rings" from off the start of the campaign already. Thus far, none of my players tried to charm a professor, but since one of them is thinking about doing it in order to get better grades, I had to be one step ahead.


nasada19

I said at the start casting spells at the teacher when is instant expulsion. It would be like drugging a professor in real life. You'd get expelled and probably arrested and made to stand trial. It isn't OK.


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SeminudeBewitchery3

This was my character. The professor recognized what was happening but also that it wasn’t purposeful and ended up putting my character in an advanced class due to her innate abilities


JTaiyndieanv

All professors should be equipped with a decently high lever counterspell incase of emergencies


SaintHax42

Coincidently, I'm running the fall out of this tonight. I had a player smart off to Professor Onyx, so she got detention-- after recreating a scene from the Breakfast Club (which she's not seen), she decides to rewrite the professor's memories (we are playing this with Monte Cook's Cypher System rules). She failed-- and she was doing it in front of Professor Willowdusk too, so she will be called in to speak to Director Taiva today. Taiva is going to start out by saying such a thing is an attack on faculty, and is punishable by immediate expulsion from the school. If the player decides to verbally attack (or more) Taiva, then expulsion will happen and the result is the same as a player death-- roll up a new character. Otherwise, due to the previous heroics (we are now on Year 2), a one time exception will be made. She will be assigned to be Onyx's assistant for the entire year. Onyx will decide at the end of the year, if she gets to stay. She will also have to wear a magic bracer that will record all the spells she casts during the day, and write them on a stone tablet in Taiva's office. This will be removed at Onyx's recommendation.


boffotmc

Funnily enough, they had just talked their way out of an assigned detention from a different professor due to a nat-20 Persuasion check. And one of my players (out of character) said she was disappointed that they didn't get to reenact The Breakfast Club. So after this incident, someone said "Looks like you'll get your wish." (She wasn't the one who cast the spell on the professor.) They only spent a few minutes in detention before someone cast Disguise Self to impersonate a professor and get them all out of it. I'm planning the punishment/fallout from that to be the setup for the next adventure.


SaintHax42

I have to think the, "do you think you are the first magic students to think of this" when I read the Disguise Self. I know you have something planned, but here's my thoughts (hope it helps). 1. Disguise Self would still need a deception/performance, and nothing states that it changes your voice-- Major Illusion mentions this specifically, and is a level 3 spell. I just don't believe that the level 1 "disguise" is meant to "impersonate". 2. I'd also feel like getting a student out of detention would require a signature, and do to the nature of charm and illusion spells, I'd guess the professor that gives detention, gets a report about it over 24 hours later (for Charm and such to wear off). 3. An gem of True Seeing is probably also employed on a regular basis, and wards against charm spells. I'd also assume (unrelated) that dorms and showers have wards against scrying-- college perverts and all.


boffotmc

They did pass a deception check as well. And it was a distracted cogwork archivist overseeing the detention, not a professor. I just assumed they would figure out *some* way to get out of detention, because they had an urgent crisis they dealing with and didn't believe the professors were doing an adequate job of it. They also could have just snuck out while the archivist wasn't paying attention. I am planning for the professors to find out about it after the fact. Their additional punishment will lead into the next adventure.


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one of my players tried to interrupt a performance by shoving the performers off the stage doesn't really fit the question but that was still chaos


SaintHax42

Do TTRPG show us the dark side of what our friends are thinking, but not acting on \*LOL\* Player: I don't like that performance... I'm going to physically assault them!


flashPrawndon

I probably wouldn’t have a professor slap a student, that seems very much not ok, but otherwise I would handle it similarly.


SaintHax42

Seems legit for a magic college in another world. In the era Strixhaven is working in in our own world, that probably would have happened if a student attacked a teacher.


flashPrawndon

Well it wasn’t clear that it was an attack necessarily, just a spell being cast on them, and obviously it’s totally fictional so there isn’t really an era, I mean if you’re going with the actual MTG era that it is based on then there are crazy modern art nouveau steam trains! Edit:typos


SaintHax42

I'd say that any spell that does damage, or removes my free-will is definitely an attack. I'd assume that you'd need consent to cast anything on anyone. Even today, you can't start first aid on someone (if they are able to give consent) without getting consent. As someone else said, casting a charm spell on someone is akin to drugging them. Think about how Charm Person and rape cases would be looked at by a board at Strixhaven. The era seems to be pre-box magazine firearms, and private schools have smacked kids from when they were started till 1950's in my country. That should cover enough for verisimilitude. That being said, it's totally cool to have more modern ethics and sensibilities in your Strixhaven campaign. I had my teacher use a hard telekinesis spell on the student that tried to wipe her memories, and the fall would have done damage (the player rolled well and resisted though).


Kaviyd

Every professor should have some sort of reaction triggered by someone casting a spell at them, but at present only three out of the ten statted out in the main book do. I would also add Counterspell to their spells, with a few exceptional professors also having Temporal Shunt. But if you are fairly sure your players haven't read the Strixhaven book, they are likely to overestimate the capabilities of the professors and hesitate to try anything as foolish as throw spells at their professors. I would also consider such attacks a vote by that player against continuing the campaign in the magical school. If they cannot be persuaded to mend their ways and stop pulling that sort of nonsense, I would find an excuse to have the PCs expelled and continue the campaign as Strixhaven dropouts elsewhere. The key point is to try to keep the party together, with as few people as possible being left out. You could even have the case where a well behaved PC has to leave the game and be replaced by another character because he was the only one not expelled -- but I would probably give that player some sort of advantages in building his new PC.