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Immersion -- which is what I think you mean here -- is not a major thing for me. D&D (and other TTRPGs) is a game first, and the story...

Yeah cozy I can see because that's not a genre it's a tone, like D&D is absolutely a game it's extremely easy to make "cozy", in fact...

And I think your GM did it wrong. You told him what you were going for, they asked for a roll, you super double succeeded, and the GM...

Unless the rules call for certain rolls at certain times based on the actions the player chose. That is why in some ways, more...

With a response of intrusive involved patrons ordering the PC around are not inherent in the 5e warlock concept. Patrons demanding...

I prefer to run warlock patrons as working like actual patronage does. A patron gives money to an artist to enable them to keep making...

I think the warlock is one of the better designed 5e classes, I think it would be great if the cleric and druid mechanics were more like...

Warlocks are not clerics. They do not need to like their patrons, and patrons do not need their warlocks' worship. A warlock (like...

Normally, I would not argue, but this is the Rate 2024 thread, so I am going to argue: running 2024 now, I have not found a change yet...

This means all social situations are decided by GM fiat. Not a good thing IMHO.

That is what the GM is there for, to interpret unusual mechanical results in a way that enhances the state of play while remaining true...

Take a page from PbtA games. The referee makes moves on PC failures.

Just do it on failure. Shadowdark characters whiff often enough that it should work out. At least test it and see how it feels.

Give it time...

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