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A player might choose to roleplay a paladin who falls (at least under 2014 rules). The DM shouldn't be screwing with them at all. If...

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...

In my experience, DMs like to hide behind passive aggressive rules like losing your abilities if you roleplay wrong so they can shift...

This is why I've turned "figure out the right-ish answer" puzzles into entirely optional bonus stuff! Players see them there, feel smart...

For sure, and I think one of the goals for the revised 5e ruleset was to have less "Mother, may I?" rules, where the DM interpretation...

That's the great thing about natural language; we can all be wrong simultaneously!

You can run it however you want but you are simply adding details that aren't in the spell description. I will say that if players...

Sure, but that's something you have to be very careful of as a GM. What's apparent in your mental frame as a GM often doesn't translate...

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...

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...

These rules were removed from paladins for a very good reason. Those being that they actively encouraged bad DMing and negative play...

Are DMs really so lazy that they can't just make up their own rule at their own table for forcing Warlock players to play to their pact...

This is a pretty solid example of why spells that create mental effects, but are using "natural language" to do so, shouldn't mix...

If lack of information leads to players not enjoying the progress of play, I would rather just tell them. Mysteries and puzzles can be...

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