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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9859083" data-attributes="member: 93670">Yes 5e goes wayyy out of its way to ensure that PCs don't actually need anything~34:30 https://twitter.co,.com/ChrisPerkinsDnD/status/850183402808463365the earlier <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/warlocks-patrons-vs-paladin-oaths-and-cleric-deities.717953/post-9858908" target="_blank">post19 warlock specific tweets</a>The ramifications of that design choice to ensure players don't need anything from the GM's world come up with the warlock/paladin/cleric classes, a few times in <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/true-neutral-bunk-or-hogwash.717888/" target="_blank">the TN/alignment thread</a>, & it even extends to the<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dz65h6H5gM&t=174s" target="_blank"> god awful designed </a>-  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmD0ZCDuozk" target="_blank">rest mechanics</a>.agreed 100%.  Unfortunately someone was so excited to push their Sam & Dean Winchester/Crowley  or Constantine/lucifer fanfic that they moved the needle wayyyyyyyy beyond the point where the player had any reason to care & the GM was effectively unable to have the power granting entity/force push back after having a stern look ignoredThat bold bit is where RAW and it's associated fluff matters to an absolutely critical degree.  With 5e, the Overton-window equivalent shifted so far that should the GM have anything in that world they supposedly master push back when a player takes actions as if their PC doesn't care or the player themselves simply responds to a stern look from the powers that be by simply calling the GM's "master of worlds" bluff by completely ignoring it.  At that point the GM can either ignore it & continue as is or pull one of[spoiler="These Levers"][URL unfurl="true"]https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGMIsACheatingBastard[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KillerGameMaster[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Railroading[/URL][/spoiler]Simply declaring the GM to be a master of worlds has no value when discussing areas of the game where the rules lore & fluff were designed to ensure the GM lacks enough authority to keep metaphorical  soft power stern looks credibleAll of those are choices that poison the social contract &  doom a campaign.</blockquote>

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