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Y'know, it's been a hot minute since I looked at the Tome of Magic, so, I dug it out to see if I was misremembering. No, I wasn't. Roleplaying the Pact is on Page 16 of Tome of Magic and says this in the first line: Yeah, so, no, it was never a requirement. A +2 on your pact check wasn't...

But, that's not accurate. You don't have to make every encounter win or die at all. Some encounters will be easier, some will be harder. But, with the case of encounter balance, you, as DM, KNOW what you're getting into. Take the earlier example of crows that alert the dungeon, turning a...

The Griffon's Saddlebag stuff is absolutely top notch. Just some really great stuff there.

No. There really wasn't. That's entirely something you've added. There was zero expectation of playing out the pact.

The funny thing is, the best fix in D&D for this is to base things around the encounter. That solves all these problems. But, people absolutely hated it, so, we're stuck. Because if you balance around encounter, apparently, it's impossible to do random encounters or simple encounters (neither...

This would very much be news to any old school player. How much ink is spilled on things like time keeping and how long your light sources last? How many times have we been told that it was impossible to rest in an adventure and you always had to go back to town, which meant that the dungeon...

One thing that 5e has provided that would make binders work better is the idea of simply keying all attacks off of a single stat. So, if you bind something that gives you a weapon proficiency, those attacks key off of say, Charisma (or whatever stat) and you're off to the races. And, since...

Sorry, what? You made your Pact roll (I almost always simply declared I failed it because that was WAAAAAY more fun) and that was it. You didn't have to play it out, like at all.

...? That wasn't true. There was nothing in the class that said that you had to "find" new vestiges. They weren't wizards. And, as someone who played a binder, I did not find it weak at all. It was keeping up with pretty much everyone else (other than CoDzilla, but, then, that was a 3e...

Huh. I went with Warlock, but, so many folks went with Sorcerer. How is a Sorcerer a "simple" caster? Good grief, even a fairly low level sorc has a dozen options in any given round. A simple caster has 3 spells. One for offense, one for defense and one for utility. The effects can be...

Subclass of warlock. There's very little chance of getting an actual binder class. So, any binder for 5e from WotC is going to have to leverage existing classes and Warlocks are the obvious choice. The point upthread about the body horror element was such a huge part of Binders. Binders were...

Just spit balling, but, my version of a Binder Warlock would leverage invocations. You bind a vestige and get X number of invocations depending on the level of the warlock. Add in maybe some ribbon bonuses with binding - skill bonuses, movement bonuses, that sort of thing, and you've got a...

That's probably true. Sad but true. Like I said, the Binder is my absolute favorite class. I only ever got to play it once, back in the 3e days, and I adored the class. So, to see it lobotomized like this is just so disappointing.

But, here's the thing. Binder's were absolutely nothing like druids. They shared nothing. So, making a warlock subclass that's pretty much carbon copy of a druid subclass and then calling it a binder is not really hitting the mark of what a binder is. A binder is someone who draws from the...

This. Exactly this. That was the point of the class. A highly versatile class where you picked from a menu of powers to use for the day (or whatever period). You were never great at anything - but, it really was the best (IMO) Jack of All Trades class. Mage Hand Press has a FANTASTIC...

My current Out of the Abyss group:

Agreed. And, the vestiges were exactly that - vestiges. They were echoes of incredibly powerful beings but, not actual beings in their own right. But, the big part of Binders is that you accessed ALL the vestiges and the vestige that you accessed at a given time changed how your character...

Yup. This is a very sad version of a Binder that has zero flavor.

I've been jonesing for a campaign if I can get the players to go for it inspired by the Wandering Village video game. The World is dying. The goddess of the world is riddled with cancers that are slowly killing her. Your village rides atop her last avatar, an enormous beast that wanders the...