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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Warlocks' patrons vs. Paladin Oaths and Cleric Deities.I apologize for contributing to it moving in that direction. I do think it's...going to be pretty hard to avoid having it come up in... -
EzekielRaiden reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General Warlocks' patrons vs. Paladin Oaths and Cleric Deities with
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Most questions about RPGs, especially trad-leaning ones, are ultimately questions about the division of authority between GMs and... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Warlocks' patrons vs. Paladin Oaths and Cleric Deities.I guess there aren't very many good 5e GMs, then, given how many folks around here champion the idea that prioritizing player desires is...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Warlocks' patrons vs. Paladin Oaths and Cleric Deities.It makes exactly as much sense as eliminating the Warlock solely because folks are not champing at the bit to get screwed over. Meaning...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Warlocks' patrons vs. Paladin Oaths and Cleric Deities.Personally, I think it's even simpler than that. People are stuck on an idea of "temptation" and "contract" which forces the patron to...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General Warlocks' patrons vs. Paladin Oaths and Cleric Deities with
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I think the question is simple. Deities are typically way more powerful than patrons and have more access to their magical followers... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Warlocks' patrons vs. Paladin Oaths and Cleric Deities.By that logic, we should also just eliminate the Cleric, Paladin, and Druid. Just play a Sorcerer if you don't want to be constantly...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General AI Art for D&D: Experiments.Oh yeah, tell me about it--getting consistent faces for dragonborn is like pulling friggin' teeth, I swear to God. They always want to...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Warlocks' patrons vs. Paladin Oaths and Cleric Deities.Think of it like this: Do you forbid your employees from learning new skills and becoming more effective employees, simply because they...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Do Artificers Break The Game at 10th Level?.I find it so humorous how eager you are to find brokenness in literally any other part of the game than regular full-casters.
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Do you use D&D style list of gods in your games?.Would have liked an "It's complicated, about equal mix of YES and NO." There are certain D&D gods I quite like, particularly the 4e...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to see's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with Love.
Yep. What happened is simple enough. People read Moorcock's Law-versus-Chaos cosmology, where "Maintain the Balance" makes sense. They...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash.So...it...won't result in the end of reality? Because if that's so, then the Neutral is either Evil With Good Publicity, or Evil In...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash.But all that's doing is saying that the faction labelled "Good" is really just stupid. That's the problem here. When you make Neutral...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash.There are three pathways by which "True Neutral" can be made to work--but you've already excluded one of them. The first is, as you...