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If the beastmaster is blatantly mistreating the pet, I would consider it but only after repedatelly calling it out in other means and have player ignore it. It's no different than in my current game, when a prince of another nation who was PC's sidekick betrayed the party after being repedatelly...

the mechanic that explicit bans its use in a traditional way? that mechanic?

Well, so far a lot of what I see from 2024 rubs me the wrong way. I like new Monk, but I hate that Dance Bard basically gives one of most powerful classes, that already was and still is in a whole different league from Monk, an ability to do few things Monk could and it couldn't. I know that...

I like how you built a strawman of me without ever playing at my table. If you're going act like a spoiled child, why should I treat you seriously?

Doesn't stop me from wanting it to be immersive enough to not be constantly reminded I'm playing the game by blatant video game mechanics.

And the only way to avoid these strawman argument examples was to reduce them to things that are not people living and interacting with the world and remove consequence for player actions? Don't be a coward, answer my hypothetical: Player decided his bastion is populated by order of righteous...

You know what I think the problem is? That several people in this conversation do not consider the Game Master to be a player who also gets to have fun. If anything I think people consider the GM a necessary evil, that needs to be put in place and submit to players' uncontrollable power fantasy...

God forbid we ever try to look at the games through critical or analitic perspective, right? It's jsut a game, turn your brain off, stop thinking, buy more product! If I wanted a game that insults me for thinkign I'd be playing Call of Duty multiplayer right now.

Considering roleplaying patrons was one of my favorite parts of my time as a DM (and I HAVE handed over one patron to another player - player who played that patron as PC in previosu campaign, not the player of the Warlock), this paragraph alone just reads to me like telling me personally to go...

Yes, with a caveat that they control these NPC's actions, while I control the roleplay aspect - I decide how they react to the player decisions or things they put them through. Especially when a familiar is an imp sent by Warlock's patron, who is loyal to patron, not the Warlock. Or, in my...

It upsets me because it's a third new mechanic or mechanci change, alongside new social interaction rules and making Warlock's patron a nonentity, that seem designed to remove roleplay from the game in favor of rollplay and "number go brrr". I do not like that the same company that hates the...

Not if the mechanics to that reduce what they make to mindless automated numbers that are blatantly not part of the world.

Play their characters and shape the world by their decisions and actions. I run reactive world that changes and responds to the PCs, it's insulting to assume just because I don't like inserting anti-roleplay mechanics into it, that I run a game where PCs are worthless and players don't amount to...

You are strawmaning by reducing all GM who like to use the NPCs like that to the worst case scenario. One of first lessons I've learned as a DM is to not murder PC's family. I do not see how kidnapping is bad aside the idea the player resents anythign bad happenning to "their" part of the world...

It is MY job to weave the storytelling into a beleivable world PCs will CARE FOR! Something that is a half-assed video game mechanic that I am not allowed to make part of the world and serves to remind players this is a game, thus making them care less and thus more encouraged to screw with...

I was going to see if there is anything to lift from it to add to Strongholds & Followers. But seeing how the entire mechanic relies on removing the DM's input. And considering also the mechanics to standardize NPC interactions and what they've done to the Warlock, I really feel like the 2024...

Don't act as if internet isn't full of horror stories of players who act like pricks and then whine when their actions have consequences. I run games where you can try anything as long as you are willing to accept the consquences. Mechanics that seem to deliberatelly remove said consequences rub...

I played a lot of 3.5 and I have never in my life seen anyone use or even mention this mechanic at all, it was forgotten.

Because I cannot affect Bastion, a PC is now allowed to commit all kinds of atrocities and, as long as they can flee to their Bastion. As I have said, a PC could now slaughter a whole village, piss on the king and kidnapp his daughter and, as long as they flee to their Bastion, escape...

If you want to adress my point, have a) actual argument and b) actually respond to my post instead of vague references because you cannot solve the examples I provided. Relying on casual "I don't play with mass murderers" is reductionist and another attempt at being a smartass, isntead of...