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Radical variant: ask the player to suggest consequences. I mean, the player understands and agrees that the PC violated the Oath, right? Wait, the player doesn't? Then tell the player what exact words of the Oath they violated. Use your authority *at the table* before you use it *in the story*.

Yes, I have. One of the PCs had a long-lost older brother. In his background story, they were soldiers together, then his brother took a leg wound, their army lost the battle, and the PC deserted; he could either die with his brother, or flee (leaving his brother behind) and become an...

On the former point: your experience differs from mine. I'm playing in a game in which the PCs are playing for high stakes. No PC deaths so far. We've managed to save some NPCs from horrible deaths, but not all. And then, when the PCs are returning from a mission, we play out campfire...

Getting all of a mountaineering team to the summit, alive, is totally an occasion for high-fives all around. Some people enjoy playing heroic PCs, in the sense of mature people who overcome significant obstacles to accomplish worthy goals, or who perish in the attempt. Others would rather play...

What's worked for me: give control of the summoned creatures, to other players. The summoner PC can still give orders, as per each spell, but the player at the table who moves the counters, rolls the dice, and tells the GM what came up on the dice, is any willing player *other* than the summoner.

I have walked a few blocks, in Munich, without literally tripping over any such reminders. "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows." - George Orwell, greatest virtue signaller of his generation. You would *hate* his insistence on factual...

After announcing "Is everyone ready for me to open this door", and waiting for every other party member to say yes or give a thumbs-up? Or did the door-opener skip that step? With explosives: "Fire in the hole!" On a golf course: "Fore!" Mountaineering: "On Belay? Belay ON! Climbing? Climb on!"...

That's not what... Yeah, right back at you.

I have played in TRPGs with the exact same economic system as the real world. The game didn't have detailed economic rules in the book, but if a PC wanted to buy 100 rounds of 9mm ammo in Chicago, or an apple in London, then the real world price of that item in that location, is the price at...

I don't know how DannyAlcatraz will answer. Speaking for myself: if my PC acquired an uncursed sealed item, and tried to sell it; and you flat-out said "Nope, it's impossible. There is no one, anywhere in the entire world, who would pay a copper piece to get that item from you"; then that would...

In a Quixotic attempt to re-unite strands of the thread... If a player declares "My PC tries to sell the Bag of Holding", or "I go looking for someone who will sell me a Bag of Holding", then the DM's response will fall somewhere on the spectrum of railroad to sandbox. Very railroad: "No...

Yes, with an exception: when the players have a hard time sorting out the relationship between "what the players want" and "what my PC wants". Whether I as player will sit at the table of an Old Skool DM, depends on whether I as player WANT a game experience which occasionally includes PC death...

You mean, you're gonna enjoy telling yourself, "that guy over there is smugly righteous, and I'm so much better than him, because *I'm* not afflicted with such smug righteousness"? Which of the following do you consider smugly righteous, looking back on how they expressed their positions...

Do you mean that you can sense evil, you can pick out dangerous creatures, in a special, magical way? Can you, as an action, open your awareness to detect such forces? Can you use this feature a number of times equal to 1 + your Charisma modifier? Look at PHB page 84. Look in a mirror. You...

That is a good principle. I wish that more people in my nation learned how to question the decisions of our grandparents and great-grandparents, how to recognize when they made mistakes or made evil decisions, and how to recognize the same choice when it happens again. How to make a different...

I'm aware that for a German, the rise and fall of the Third Reich is merely one decade, out of centuries of German history; but for some of us, it was a very... influential... decade. Some survivors were so emotionally traumatized, that it affected how they raised their children, which in turn...

Well, on one hand, do what works for you. On another hand, in casting aside those considerations, you cast aside some of the most well-executed layers of the story. Eric's request, to be buried at sea, because he cast his lot with those who died in the Middle Passage - neither in Africa, nor in...

When I make a point, and then make an aside, and you respond vehemently to the aside, then we can tell you're dodging the point. You might be fooling yourself, but not anyone else. Go on, tell Boris Pasternak and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn that being imprisoned is the same outcome as being...

If I were Player A, I would have PC-A prepare to snatch PC-B out of the hound's mouth, immediately after PC-B delivered the fire breath. Isn't that the obvious thing to do, if you want to end the scene high-fiving your still-alive teammate, over the corpse of the hound? Either that, or grab...

For anyone who missed the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07vRNeuU7QM The bit about paladins is a petty vendetta. Vengeance Paladins know *exactly* who to blame.