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I have admittedly not read every single post in this thread very closely, but I did go back and reread the OP and have to wonder when a warlock pact "being a part of the actual fiction of the game" became equated with taking away their powers?

I was just making a list of classic/common monsters that I do not own minis of and umber hulks were at the top of the list. This might be a good occasion to buy and paint some in aquatic colors.

Ooh. I am liking this direction. Maybe fiendish shambling mounds (part of what makes "elemental evil" evil in my homebrew cosmology is the corruption of the elements - which is not mean to be good or evil - by fiendish energy of their planes and from whence the evil elemental princes spawned).

Are there any fiendish creatures that are from a flooded level of the Abyss or the Hells? Not up on my D&D infernal bestiary.

A memory-eating ooze seems more in line with the "Mud Sorcerer Cult" that loves all these ooze and slime and mud, worshiping a syncretic form of Ogremoche and Olhydra, that I have has another faction I am planning to introduce later.

I guess I need to start by looking up what the heck an "oblex" might be. :LOL:

I wasn’t sure which poll choice best fit my approach. I create random encounter tables based on terrain and/or locations. They are mostly used when traveling between places or exploring a specific location unless there are specific encounters that make sense to what is going on that are only...

The evil water elementalist cultists that once made use of this desecrated temple of a local agriculture goddess flooded the lower levels and set loose/summoned some terrible monster down there. Their evil earth cultist rivals have taken over the place, but even then stay away from the flooded...

In my current homebrew setting color coding is an attempt by sages to apply a framework through which to understand dragons that doesn’t actually adhere very well to reality (dragons are mostly thought to be dead or asleep), rather the colors may allude to their lineage but does not necessarily...

Thanks! I don't really do PDFs (except as back-ups to print stuff) and PoD often feels overpriced - but I will definitely check 'em out.

I'd give every registered user on ENworld (approximately) $8500 (unless they are on my ignore list).

Based on this post, I am gonna keep an eye out for a cheap secondhand copy of the 4E MM.

I knew someone was gonna make that joke as soon as I hit submit, and cringed, but at least it was @Snarf Zagyg, so it was halfway decent (but only halfway). ;)

It depends on the specific scenario. It depends on the game. It depends on the table culture. It depends on the GM. It depends on individual players. It depends on your mood. It depends. . . It depends. . . It depends. . . It depends. . .

Looking back over this thread, I laughed when I got to this, because by the time I got around to actually including it, I changed it back to fey.

Bias? ;):LOL: I gave away my 4E books in 2009 and correctly or not, I think of the rules as so far out there that I never think to check its versions of monsters. I feel like I have plenty of sources to use without 4E, but now that you've mentioned it, I will take a peek when relevant, if I...

Sorry for the delay in response. As I suggested above, when linking to this thread, since I mostly convert older edition adventures to 5E I am frequently looking up the monsters included there in the 5E MM, being kinda disappointed in the adaptation and then doing my own by looking back at...

I don’t think I understand your question or what my post has to do with agency.

Ultimately, “that is how we play/ed it and it works/ed for us” is the best answer seems like the best answer I can expect about a lot of topics on these boards.

My feeling is, if you don’t want the possibility of that kind of story (where the fiction of the pact matters) don’t play a warlock. At least, that is what I’d say to anyone wanting to play one in a campaign I was running.