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Sorry but my reading of the oaths says otherwise. They do not require success in tasks, they require efforts and attempts. An oath of devotion doesnt lose his Paladino's for trying to save someone and failing. In this case, the effort to save the victim failed when he got cornered by the...

Really great... what passage in the OP tells us what the solution that "wins" is? I see this " I had hoped he would stare it down with a bit of god-fuelled determination." But that just says what he had hoped the charscter would have chosen. It does not say there was a winning option. And...

Truthfully, I think something missing from 5e core is a magical resource that can be harvested (from a variety of sources), refined and manipulated. Instead of "valuable brass spitoons" of a gold cost, things could be expressed in this commodity. Then you can have demons harvesting it out of...

I agree. As others have said, the married to ability scores (I personally dislike btw) is thexeady straight-forward to use outof-the-box for brand new GMs and players. Everyone without pause can find the columns fill things in etc. Then for those that want more, like me, there is the variant...

Ok then that's great. But when you start a thread asking when will WotC support a thing and it's already in print etc... one I would think has to expect that yo be brought up. When you claim a different approach would be better, one ought to expect different points of view to be presented...

@Sword of Spirit "Some assumptions that people seem to be making are (to elaborate on and add to my previous ones): 1) It was obvious to the player that if the paladin didn't give up the NPC their character would die. Sub assumptions to this might include: 1a) The paladin was alone and...

As I read more and more about this situation, I want in the next PHB the following errata to the Paladin... "Players may ask the question out-of-character to the GM "what does my character know the teachings of my order would either require or point me to do?" As in, then cplayer haven't been...

There was a chance that if you danced a jig then a meteor would strike the dragon dead. So, "chances" dont really help the discussion much given what we know. "He was carrying an injured NPC to safety." Unless we assume stoopid, the injured guy was worse at getting away on his own. Otherwise...

From my pre-session zero page on character generation. Warlocks, Clerics, Druids, Paladins, etc (and some backgrounds) have to work with the Gm to iron out the details and come to agreement on the nature of their relationships with other NPCs/Entities, groups and such. Your Patron...

This does not seem to be a sacrificing innocents case tho. This seems - barring more info - a both die or one dies with nothing to say if the pally gives himself up the other guy lives. This is an attempt to save the other guy that failed when the dragon caught them... not at the point the...

Of course they could have. Just like they could have done with every other optional or variant rule. But in general they tended to give as core the simpler option, easier for brand new GM and players out of the box and list the tad more complex variants with examples. Seems to have worked out...

Yep. Even for the issue of hood, which is better for good? Refuse and we both die out here alone? Give up the victim, get away, raise forces, slay dragon, rezz the fallen guy? Folks are acting like the options were " one of you dies, which one?" But I did not see any promise of living for...

And what does that have to do with an act bring evil or good? Didnt you just establish that using a soul gem... destroying souls... "destroying souls is Evil with a capital "E"." That seems to view an act isolated on it's own as evil. Even in the context of surviving to do some big good...

Judt based off my memories of the other modules etc it seems like most of them are built around the PCs committing good acts most of the time. They are stopping rituals that will kill plenty of folks, stopping the rise of evil dragons, saving captive villagers, etc. How many of the AP produced...

If you mean RAW, nope. But there are clearly a lot of ritual and lore beyond RAW. As GM, I would make such be an elaborate ritual over time involving sacrifices to transform a new patch of desecrated ground into dirt that the vampire can use. I might borrow the "for 30 days in a row" found in...

I see them in every DnD game I gave seen.

When? The PHB where they list it as a variant. For simplicity they use the std rule in products.

First, without knowledge of the oath and the context, I cannot say anything wasxwrong. Second, as a rule in my gsme whrn dealing with classes like pally, warlock, clerics, druids or even anyone devoted to or having status in a guild - I make it clear wrll before the decision is made whether or...

In practice, quirky,odd and strangemodes of communcation for PCs are fine *if * they are still effective. Its when it is actually unintelligible or an impediment to communication that it typicaly fails. Its starts as unique then moves to problematic, ignored or handwaved (gm allows player to...

There are a lot of variables at play and like any adventure of most any complexity above simple there are going to be some combo of players, groups, preferences etc that may need tweaks. Can your group travel high stealth for long periods? Or are you gonna stand out like sore thumbs? Can you...