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See, I guess I can understand that perspective, but I see making it up yourself on the spot as worse.

This is why I was clear on my use in my first post (and pretty consistently throughout my time on the board).

The current version of L5R is much more narratively-based (mechanically) than it used to be before AEG sold the license to FFG. Don't know if that makes a difference in rules weight, since I stopped following the game (which until then I kept up with obsessively) after that happened.

Current official D&D is definitely moving in a direction that would seem to make a White Mage type more appropriate to the game than a traditional D&D cleric. Perhaps they consider that path. Fortunately, there are plenty of other games, even other versions of 5e, that don't have to follow...

To be fair, I doubt I'd give that speech I wrote above to a warlock player straight up during session zero. Instead I would work out with the answers to my big questions (who is your patron? Why did you enter a pact with them? Why did they enter a pact with you) and make sure they knew that the...

They should consider putting that on the front cover.

Jennifer Kale.

That sounds like union talk mister 😉.

Do you just flat out disagree with the trad division of power? If so, please just say that.

I stand by my previous statement, but the above is a explication of my technique, because I had time for a longer post.

You don't think a cleric has requirements of the faith to follow every bit as important as a paladins oath?

Perhaps. Why else is it called that?

Yeah, I would never run Daggerheart anyway. I would play though, at least once.

If it is specifically something the PC would know about their own life, and it isn't previously established in play or my notes, then I would be fine with it. But I likely still wouldn't ask the player to describe it unless I knew they wanted to.

I always judge RPGs by 1989-2001 standards (2e to 3e, essentially).

It absolutely should apply a failure chance. I kinda love this!

Lower Decks is my favorite NuTrek, followed by Picard season 3 (mostly nostalgia), then SNW.

I do not care for that technique as a player OR GM. As a player I don't want to have control over anything beyond my PC, and as a GM I don't want my players to have control over anything outside of their PC. It is immersion-breaking for me.

What I would do under what circumstance? Did you have a scenario in mind? In general I would have fairly regular communication, in one way or another, between the PC and the patron (or perhaps their agent). During these times the patron would push their agenda, suggesting or maybe even ordering...

None if that reads as unique to me, just rare. It's certainly not IMO a good reason to restrict any ability to PC or NPC based on the narrative distinction between the two.