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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bigsta" data-source="post: 7820169" data-attributes="member: 6803284">Back in the day pornographic films had story, and people though that the quality of the story was as important as the quality of . . . everything else.  Modern porn has little to no story and is mostly described in terms of the attributes and abilities of the performers in the film.5e Paladin oaths and Warlock pacts are grognard porn.  They exist so people who care about background and fluff have something to . . . hold on to.  When a player's paladin takes the oath of the plumber or the cleric worships the god of pizza delivery guys, their DM expects them to maintain the story so as not to break the illusion that their gaming porn is more classy than that low brow modern gaming porn.Many modern players have no need of story in their gaming porn.  All they need to know is what stats and abilities they have, and then they use those stats and abilities to . . . engage in entertaining acts in various locations and in different positions with a differing cast of humanoids of all shapes and sizes.I am playing a Vengeance Paladin in one campaign and I have absolutely no idea what the oath entails, I just like the abilities associated with the oath.  I wanted to make a Sailor Moon-based magical girl melee fighter and paladins make the best melee magical girls (incidentally warlocks make the best ranged magical girls).</blockquote>