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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...

The rules isn’t the world. They are just an abstraction to deal with how the PCs interact with it. It’s nonsense that a fighter with the...

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...

Oh course not, the rules are for the player to work with your DM. I never asserted otherwise. I was pointing out where the rules...

Most questions about RPGs, especially trad-leaning ones, are ultimately questions about the division of authority between GMs and...

Turned into? I thought that that was the premise of the thread - that the warlock didn't just give all agency to the DM

The rules support this: "At 1st level, you have struck a bargain with an otherworldly being of your choice:" (2014!PHB pg 107) The...

For starters because Oathbreaker is comically evil. Oath of Vengeance or Oath of Redemption both to me look like much more interesting...

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...

The GM could put up a fight about it, but a good 5e GM is going to prioritize player desires over (entirely fungible) setting logic. If...

What doesn't get mentioned enough is the positive thing about players having characters that are clerics, paladins and warlocks - which...

Thanks for making a great game! I will post more from our game soon!

Oh, gosh. Gonna add this to my clip file to give me a boost whenever I'm struggling. Thanks! And thank you, @hawkeyefan for playing and...

So I don't want to derail @hawkeyefan 's detailing of his actual play, but I had to chime in for a bit, as I just started a co-GM...

Okay... so we're a few sessions in now, and the game has been very enjoyable. We've muddled through the rules a bit at times out of the...