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Sorry, maybe "freelancer" is the wrong word. But, I imagine that there would need to be some degree of conversation about how to integrate material from a 3pp into DDB. Are these 3pp not subject to any errata for example? Nothing has ever changed in these books since first publication? My...

Having watched the level of kludging that needs to be done just to make bog standard PHB classes work in Fantasy Grounds (it takes fan made add ons just to get things like Blade Ward to function, for example) I think it's fair to say that it's a LOT more complicated than people realize to add in...

At a guess, I would think that "picking winners" has a lot more to do on the business side of things than the creative one. Not that these aren't creative products, I don't mean that at all. But, I imagine things like "hits deadlines" and "is available when needed" and all that sort of stuff...

But, how would you get that result? In 2024, you could cast a Fireball but it's extremely unlikely. Like about .3% chance. And, even then, that's after you've surged. Most campaigns are never going to see that happen. Having seen more than a few Wild Mages in action, I don't think anyone...

When I ran Candlekeep Mysteries, one side plot that I tried to get off the ground was the idea of binders and the sort of "secret war" that the various faiths had going on. It didn't really go anywhere (mostly due to my own lack of preparation than anything else) but, I always thought that this...

Meh. How many times have your players failed to complete an adventuring day? After all, the encounter balance paradigm means that you can still balance easier and harder encounters to control the pacing of the story. "Successfully Completing" an arbitrary number of encounters in order to...

Takes a while, but, eventually ideas penetrate my skull.

Dunno if it counts, but, Shattered Obelisk was certainly built around adventuring days. Each dungeon is about 6-8 encounters long. And, while the clock was very much abstracted, there was a sense of urgency in the adventures. Considering that came out in 2023, I'd say that's pretty recent.

ah. Fair enough. To me, there is about as much expectation to role play the pact as there is to role play the pact in 5e warlocks. IME, players have pretty much zero interest. Note, that's not quite the same as what was said originally: That's a long way from "encourage".

Umm, I'm not sure I understand the question. Regardless of the stucture, the only way to lose an encounter is to run out of HP. In an "adventuring day" paradigm, how do you lose an encounter? And, frankly? Who cares? The odds of a group "losing" an encounter in any paradigm is vanishingly...

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...