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This is an issue only for warlocks who sell their souls, which is not the default in 5E. The Archfey patron doesn't want your soul. The Great Old One patron doesn't want your soul, and might not understand what a soul even is. Some warlocks cut a deal with Fiend patron regarding their souls...

There is a theory which draws a parallel between (a) people who act like aggrieved victims, when someone outside their demographic gains equal access and participation, and (b) a first-born child who resents the arrival of siblings and thus the loss of "only child" status. I'm not gonna name any...

If PCs are winning fights without using their potions and scrolls, then they're doing it right. They should keep winning fights without depleting non-regenerating resources. Better to win and still have the scroll/potion in reserve, than to win and NOT still have it in reserve. If PCs are...

I recognize that reference!

I don't know the exact details of the Pole Vault bonus to a Jump check, but I think that multiple poles don't give a stackable bonus. I guess he could roll for each lance to see how far down the shaft it breaks, and use the better of the two? If you had a pole arm, rather than a shield, I...

Whoah. Have you studied 1930s Germany, at ALL? When the Third Reich came for the communists, there was little to no reasonable doubt that death was on the line. Yes, there was a build-up, in which it was easy for many Germans, such as Niemoller, to look the other way. There was no honest basis...

So what would you have done, if he had charged you, on a horse, dual-wielding lances?

I'm not making an essentialist claim; I'm suggesting situationalist usage of certain words. Drow women, in the Drow homeland, hold most positions of power, and therefore can be sexist! Minorities can hold power, and often do. White people are a minority of the seven billion humans, yet in many...

On one hand, I would love for anyone who is not yet aware of Niemoller's poem, to consider how closely it applies to their present situation. On another hand, let's scale our arguments to the stakes at hand*. Heather Heyer lived and died by Niemoller's principles. She has my respect as a fallen...

Take this with grain of salt and Protection Versus Pedantry: Some people use some words differently than others. As you use the word, women can be sexist. As some others use the word, no, because of a fine distinction, which I will try to explain briefly. Some people distinguish between unfair...

No matter how hard we disagree on where Zelazny shines and where he's horrible, no matter how much we might dislike each other: here is a sincere, non-sarcastic tip of the hat, in recognition of your service. I've done a little, just checking badges at the entry to the party zone and that sort...

I have seen a guy try two-sword fighting in the Society for Creative Anachronism. My reaction was indeed "cool", and he defeated some sword-and-board fighters. So far as I could tell, his advantage wasn't the ability to deliver a higher volume of full-force blows, it was more ways to exploit...

"modstopo"? I'm here voluntarily. When Morrus and/or Umbran set limits which I cannot abide, then I'll stop participating. I question your portmanteau, on the grounds that there's more than a slippery slope of difference between EN World moderation and the historical Gestapo. (EN World mods...

Asked and answered! Also, all too plausible, as behavior at a con. Yeah, in that case, go with Game A, or better yet, find a third alternative. Now I'm picturing some guy, who plays a paladin, and who always heals Daphne's character first, with Lay On Hands; with an attempt at innuendo about...

No, I'm not. Didn't then, and don't plan to. I pointed out one specific aspect, as an ethical principle which Zelazny established, and which Gygax, so far as I can tell, ignored, disregarded, and didn't bring into D&D: whether a Lord of Amber could recognize the worth of other humans *even...

Have you ever died on the hill where Sisyphus was rolling a rock up the hill? Next time you die, I will ask, at the funeral, to say a word; at the microphone, I will say a word, specifically, "plethora". I hope that the officiant will respond with "Thanks. That means a lot."

So you say. Are you a trained mental health professional, declaring a diagnosis; or can you offer a link to a diagnosis by a professional; or are you categorizing child homicide as mental illness, reflexively, without having any specific mental illness in mind? It's terrible, to face the reality...

Well, now you've said something I can agree with! Common ground at last! "Just kidding - but am I?" or "This is what the feminazis are really saying" are classic staples of the alt-right troll. Well, I *guess* that's agreement, of a sort. I'm actually rather obedient, whenever you order me to...

Pondering further: maybe one of the differences, is also something about the motivations of NPCs, and how those interact with the motivations of PCs, AND the motivations of players. Arneson wrote a Baron with a compelling, immediate interest in the exploration of his own castle's dungeon. All...

I know of one case. The player was named "Noam", and there was someone in the Fantasy Gaming Society who went almost a semester thinking that everyone was addressing him as "Gnome" even when out of game. He was clever, very well-educated, emotionally intense, and funny, and also he was a decent...