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Gorgeous 😍 I will use some more poetic guided imagery, very solid ideas.

I would probably love this setting. My cursed antagonist NPC barbarian in my setting finally donned a Clint Eastwood style poncho and said happy trails to the party after a long-standing rivalry 😉

For the last one, my campaign deals with survival a bit. I went off the get-go regarding putting everyone on notice when it comes to resting everwhere. Since a single-dang bedroll is too generous... as some other things you have said, a bedroll RAW squashes a few environmental challenges. I have...

So, I'm not sure that many warlock players are truly that resistive. Also, part of any oppositional defiance may be hard wired into players' collective heads in regards to the whole adversarial patron- a common motif- and sometimes they may be too ready to jump to that. With a charisma based...

So is it that you dislike roleplaying in your roleplaying game? I guess it is fine if you do... but a tough pill for any DM to swallow

I'm going to come off as a bit smarmy here. And, I do respect your posts, so take my tongue-and-check with less than a grain of 🧂. It sounds like you are against DMs making a setting.. that you play that role in... almost like the DM is making you... play a role? Where have I heard of this? 😉

This very much to me. If an external force is added into the story, I may let laziness take over and provide the sleepy benefactor and will do so if that is the character creation discussion.... But! You gotta believe that how I let power-players influence the world/story can trickle down to the...

❤️ Shadowrun so!!!

Without going to long, being a old-school guy who was like "what the hells this warlock stuff?" - coming back to the DMing game. I LOATHED the idea of heavily featuring one, but it is something the player wanted and after reading the class more I interpreted this as nothing I could blame the...

Yeah, I'm not high on being articulate atm. But this has comparables.

I'm more likely to interrupt my own Def-slam poetry drum/beatnik stream of consciousness by shouting out: "boner!!" .. 22 Jump Street style... Cynthia, you're dead!

Meh, its a wash on likelihood maybe. I suppose if the a class-defining pact involved right at character creation.. the likelihood increases for obligatory circumstances to arise Though my Warlock player shows none of that resistive adversarial nonsense :) just a weariness of the patron's...

This seems 👍 .. I would probably make a similar inconvenience for pali too though. Switch all their radiant to necrotic, or give them a necrotic or fire susceptibility for a stint... but almost always this is thematically played up and good RP after the annoyance will always be rewarded. My...

I think "growing pains" are a great narrative device for character evolution. Narration-wise, it feels like a missed opportunity, if this extremely-powerful NPC patron is able to gift mortals with supreme power, but they do not influence the world in any other way, not even consequential-seeming...

I once had my Zealot barbarian player "punished" by embracing a condition that caused him to only be able to use his necrotic strike option (radiant wouldn't work) - that same condition caused this to another NPC zealot as well, it was very clearly narrated (not a trap). This is in a very...

NO mechanical liability? Or just no class features removed? I can picture a paladin being ashamed of their actions and thus having a good amount of social disadvantage particularly with exemplar paladins, maybe bleeding over to a combat disadvantage of some type with limitations... but then...

I wouldn't need to "impose" because I would have discussed how these class philosophy or constraints will shape the PC. But if they spit in the face of the PC they created I would try to right the ship. I feel the paladin does need some form of principle-driven behavior for example... otherwise...

Doesn't bother me much, though you might still expect, if I were DM'ing for the axe-chopping block loom to be a pushed narrative thus again "making the patron matter" I might also make the patron try to push events to expedite the process, again making the patron matter at least in narrative...

Thx, it has been my baby for several years. If I have stress, a wandering mind, or watch a disparate themed show I have jotted so many notes in a journal. It is crazy how inspired you can get when you take something not geared to high fantasy and bend it into that frame.. Always Sunny In...