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Right! A lot of people here seem to think this is about the jerk DM punishing a bad player or something like that. It is nothing like...

I'd argue that if the paladin character doesn't get near oathbreaker status at a few points, why did they bother playing a paladin in...

Sure. There are always a few bad actors or just entirely clueless players. One of the benefits of being in my late 40s is that I've...

So because some folks might not want to play a warlock, cleric, paladin, or druid as written, the classes should be eliminated for...

I mean, that's just false when it comes to 5e. The paladin can be forced to become an oathbreaker, which gives different abilities, so...

So if the GM wants of course the gods can take away the cleric's powers and the patrons the warlock's powers. Though it probably would...

It's a failure of design (IMO) with little to no input from the designers with regards to clerics, paladins and warlocks. However, the...

The best way is to write up the pact at level 1. The patron(you) and the PC(player) negotiate out a contract for the power. Then the...

I've had trouble with warlocks all through 5e, and I could use some insights from other folk. Maybe I just need the discussion. I've...

Sure. But it also is a rather common form of railroading.

To me, if that's true it represents a failure in worldbuilding on the GM's part.

Usually that absolutely nothing interesting will happen outside of the path.

And that's ok. You do you. But how I view it as a DM, the PC nonchalantly swimming against a riptide or upstream in rapids because they...

Well, there are still "very hard" and "nearly impossible" that are unreachable by unskilled. But one certainly can argue that a thing...

Yes/no, depending on how you look at it. To me, it's more about "what threats would the party be nudged towards" rather than "adjust...