roleplay-geek: Judge Dredd Random Crime Drop Table

Friday, 19 February 2021

Judge Dredd Random Crime Drop Table

I wouldn't be much of a fan of the Old School Rennaisance (OSR) of Roleplaying if I didn't love making a drop table every now and then.

How To Use the Judge Dredd Random Crime Drop Table

Download it and print it out.
Grab some dice
Roll up some Crimes

SAMPLE CRIMES & SENTENCES

Armed Robbery - As the Judges pass by the Bank / Shop / Truck an alarm sounds and a group of balaclava wearing perps start blazing away with their spit guns. SENTENCE: 18 to 30 years.

Arson - An eagle eyed judge spots a perp running away from a smoking building / vehicle / vending machine - SENTENCE: Life

Assault - A fight breaks out between some citizens and the PCs need to break it up. SENTENCE: 1 to 5 years for brawling, 3 to 10 years if anyone is seriously injured. 10 years if someone injurs a Judge or a public figure.

Boinging in Public - The tranquility is broken by screams as a giant bouncing ball careens through the crowd. SENTENCE: 20 years.

Coercion to Suicide - A Judge spots a citizen about to take a dive and a crowd is urging them to jump. SENTENCE: 10 to 15 years.

Comic Book Smuggling - A comic book smuggler is peddling his filth to you impressionable juves. SENTENCE: 6 months for possession, 5 to 18 years for trading. 10 to 25 years for manufacture or smuggling.

Criminal Damage - Venting your spleen against a Building / Car / Vending Machine / Robot / Street Furniture is no way for a citizen to behave. SENTENCE: 2 to 6 years.

Disorderly Conduct - Covers a wide range of minor public order crimes including queue jumping, being drunk or homeless, begging. SENTENCE: 1 to 5 years.

Dunking - An alert Judge spots a dunker with their hand in someone else's pocket. SENTENCE: 2 to 7 years.

Forgery - Despite advances in modern crypto technology there is still a brisk trade in illegal documents and counterfeit cred sticks. Your Judges might stop someone for a minor traffic violation and their Drivers License doesn't pass the sniff test. SENTENCE: Posession 2 to 8 years, Forgery 8 to 15 years.

Illegal Gambling - There are plenty of sanctioned venues such as Robo-Fighting, Slot Parlours and Bingo Halls but that doesn't stop citizens from indulging in this most destructive of vices.
Be it a pedwalk game of 3 Shells or a friendly side bet at the Shuggy table your average citizen will bet on just about anything, anywhere, anywhen. SENTENCE: Attendance at an illegal event 2 to 6 years, organising 10 to 15 years.

Illegal Trading - Many citizens turn entrepreneur to make a few extra credits on top of their welfare checks. Trading without a license or trading in a proscribed location is illegal. SENTENCE: 2 to 5 years.

Jay Walking - Walking on a highway (or in a designated running zone, or running in a walking zone) is an offence. Better to nip it in the bud Judge. SENTENCE: 3 to 12 months.

Jimping - There's something funny about those Judges over there. Their uniforms aren't regulation spec. Judge Impersonation (or known perp impersonation) is no joke, especially at halloween, comic-cons (because comics are illegal remember) and dinner parties. SENTENCE: 1-5 years for defamation. 10 years if committing another crime.

Littering (and Spitting) - Statistically speaking one of the most common gateway crimes. Despite a zero tolerance policy and stiff sentencing millions of citizens every year start out on the long downward slope into progressively more serious criminality. Criminologists have suggested that once a perp enters into the Justice System that it is the system itself which brutalises and criminalises citizens. Needless to say those criminologists are behind bars. SENTENCE: 3 to 6 months.

Parking Violation - There's no excuse for bad parking especially when the cars can do it for you. SENTENCE: 1000 C Fine or 1 Year.

Rioting - Mega City One is a powderkeg and it doesn't take much disruption to a citizen's life for them to go nuts and start rioting. Thankfully the Justice Department has an arsenal full of non-lethal weaponry to quell even the most peacefull protests including stumm gas, riot foam and sonic cannon. SENTENCE: 2 to 10 years

Robot Tampering - Robots are an everyday thing in Mega City One. They serve you breakfast, clean your apartment, vend your food and many other mundane every day tasks leaving you plenty of time to enjoy your unemployment. Some Citizens however take to robot tampering either as some form of political statement or as a means to make money. Sometimes this tampering can have deadly consequences. SENTENCE: 10 years to Life depending on the severity.

Robbery - Be it burglary or theft from a vehicle or person, robbery is one crime which never goes out of style. Usually the preserve of street punks or gentlemen thieves its all the same to the Law. SENTENCE: 5 to 12 years.

Scrawling - The modern form of grafitti, it is usually the preserve of the young bored juve, scrawling offers a degree of notoriety or infamy for those who can get their tag in the most outrageous or prominent location. However, it is also a popular way for gangs to mark their territory. Judges should always be vigilant for gang signs whenever they encounter the work of scrawlers. SENTENCE: 3 months to 3 years.

Shoplifting - Low level criminality needs to be treated with a short sharp shock or a day stick to the face. SENTENCE: 2 to 7 years.

Smoking in Public - Despite tobbacco being a heavily regulated substance and nicotine having long been removed from cigars and cigarettes smoking or vaping is a popular passtime among citizens. The Justice Department outlawed public smoking many years ago and regulated smokatoriums sprang up in every sector. SENTENCE: 10 minutes in a smokatorium without a helmet.

Sponting - Spontaneous Confessors aren't really criminals they just like to waste Judges time and resources by confessing to crimes they haven't committed. The Justice Department being the caring and considerate organisation that it is made Sponting a crime. Now everyone is happy. SENTENCE: 3 to 6 months

Tapping - Street mugging or tapping is an all two common crime of violence. SENTENCE: 5 to 15 years.

Unlicensed Miming - Whilst clowning around is perfectly legal miming is not. Unless of course you are carrying a permit and operating with the designated miming zone outside Mitterand Maisons in Sector 55. SENTENCE: 5 years.