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In my games, the Cleric is not actively channeling a God's power. The cleric is tapping into the Divine power source. A god acts as...

And to clarify, when you say consequence, you mean that you expect the GM to measure your actions and enforce a consequence on your...

So just to be clear, in your games, the presence or absence of class and levels is something that can be determined by PCs and NPCs in...

So much of this game was built on DMs and players engaging in "good natured antagonism" that it really paints the Hickman Revolution as...

Are you asserting things like levels and classes actually exist in the fiction outside of a LitRPG style of play?

Strangely, the rules were instead written to assume the players will be jerks who min-max and meta-game every last possible advantage if...

And the Stanford Prison Experiment is extremely relevant with respect to older versions of D&D because BT being TOLD to strip the class...

I'm getting a weird feeling of déja vu here. Like this thread combines a few recently epic debate threads into one. Is this another...

And not every piece of guidance is equally good. One of my common critiques of D&D in general and both sandbox and adventure path play...

1st level is a game construct, not part of the world. There is no reason to suppose a 3rd level character was ever 1st. It doesn't...

The think about most jerk DMs is they believe they are not jerk DMs.

But it can not enable them. If the DM wants to set up the paladin in the Kobayashi Maru to strip him of his paladinhood, he can do so...

I have noted, repeatedly, that I'm talking about 5e's version of a warlock- which is different from the 3e version which was that some...

So we should thus roll out the red carpet and bend over backwards to help them be jerks, rather than lift a finger to do better? No...

That you keep bringing up how much the books empower the GM to be a jerk "if [they are] that kind of person" does not bespeak of such a...