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The thing is that the gambling penalties in question are boring. I've no objection to gambling within RP (I'd argue as much gambling happens in the average Apocalypse World or Blades in the Dark session as the average D&D campaign). But Level Drain is the penalty equivalent of the +X weapon. Yes...

I don't hate the concept outside disliking tracking slots in general. I do however think it's a hard one to implement and of the three we have only the paladin does it passably well.

I've had a player chime in and agree that they deserved it. Demon offered gifts, paladin wished for a Holy Avenger, demon vanished and came back with a Holy Avenger ... still held in a plate-covered arm, dripping blood from the shoulder. The arm of the previous paladin who wielded it. (And no I...

You can't miss what you didn't have. Who other than a few grognard DMs does it lead to a negative play experience for?

Not that I would ever play anything like a Paladin of the Blood of Vol - when not being read in to what the inner circle of the cult actually believes... The thing is that the new classes I want are ones that push the boat out. I don't want the tsunami of 3.X or 4e classes that were all...

Quick and dirty guide: Wizard backgrounds: Acolyte for Healing Word and Guidance (might work very well with an abjurer), Criminal for Alert for the sweet initiative buff, and Scribe if you think you have to solo carry the intelligence skills and want to be skilled at other things (I don't...

In general yes. And this is somewhere I agree with you. But I'd argue that clerics should be dealing more with their churches and orders than directly with their deities. Especially when you cut off so many avenues of roleplay. If you want to deal directly with a patron then play a warlock...

It's been over 15 years since gods cutting off access to spells has been part of the current PHB or DMG. It is therefore emphatically not part of the default and is therefore either (a) something the DM needs to explicitly pitch in advance, (b) hidden well within the small print of the setting...

On the page I have open right in front of me (page 49) the top of the right hand column is "Variant: Training To Gain Levels" and then gives a suggested time and cost in days. Below it is "Level Advancement Without XP". So that's a yes.

No. That's largely on Crawford who's not that great with rules (see: numerous Sage Advices) and not that great a communicator. But don't assume bad faith.

Which do not normally include the DM saying "I have altered the contract. Pray I don't alter it further. Literally pray to your god." and stripping away the powers of a cleric or paladin. And haven't since 2008. The problem here is that the DM doesn't want to stick to the implicit contract of...

As I've said there are a range of approaches presented on e.g. session prep and worldbuilding (including both a couple of methods to homebrew and Greyhawk as an example of a setting). It shows methods of squares, hexes, and theatre of the mind and multiple approaches to XP and levelling up. Yes...

Basically it's the professional wrestling term for not breaking character. It was originally a coded warning (because no one knew what kayfabe meant it could be said as a warning that there were people who didn't know it was all an act) but the bad guys want to be dastardly and know they should...

As mentioned earlier DMs are effectively kayfabe heels. And want our dastardly plans foiled but ham up when it happens.

Can you provide evidence for this?

Show me these players. These players who think that they get to decide what all NPCs do and override everything on the DM's side of the screen. I am only aware of two players who have ever had the upper hand over the DM - one used to badger him into running one on one sessions for their 15th...

You seem to be under the misapprehension I only run one style. My Apocalypse World games are not at all in the same style as my OSR-inspired dungeon exploration games are not at all in the same style as my heroic fantasy are very different from my ridiculous Grant Howett single pagers. Level...

We're disagreeing on what the setting logic and class fantasy says. As I have repeatedly pointed out in the real world once a priest is sacramentally invested in at least some of the largest churches then that is done. And can't be revoked. And in the absence of actual magic I would expect...

Yes it can. Or rather the fear comes from the interesting part - the long term consequences. What it doesn't come from is the boring part - the consequences being a simple numerical change. If you were to e.g. have an Undead Marks of Corruption meter that only went one way or you e.g. recovered...

So ... it basically wastes the PCs time and is something they overcome and then never have to mention again. Like I say boring. When my things alter the character sheet this isn't going to be something they can ignore ... and isn't going to be entirely negative.