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Yeah, I mean I’m a huge 4e apologist, but I still play 5e over 4e. Each edition has things I prefer over the other, but ultimately 5e wins for me. A more 4e-ish 5e would be great, even if I would be a little bitter they didn’t listen to those of us who were saying so all the way back in 2012...

There are also some non-spell magical abilities from 2014 that became spells in 2024. For example, the dryad’s Charm ability got turned into the Charm Monster spell, with a parenthetical note saying it lasts 24 hours and ends early if the Dryad casts it again. My impression is that early in the...

My reaction would depend on a lot of factors, from in-game context to my real-life emotional state on that particular day. I think I tend to lean towards “this will make a great story,” but if the tone of the campaign is super light and goofy, that would likely shift me towards “that’s...

Fate/Stay Night!

Yes, I agree. Tell that to @Minigiant

Who ever said they could go back in the cycle for rebirth? Sure. “A secret, third thing” is just a memetic turn of phrase I was borrowing. My point was not about the exact number of possibilities, but that “outside the cycle of life and death” is categorically distinct from “dead.”

Being “dead, dead” is part of the cycle of life and death. It’s the death part. If they’re outside the cycle of life and death, they aren’t alive or dead. They’re a secret third thing.

Interesting; Teneborous is also one of the Amber Vestiges in Curse of Strahd. There is, actually, as of 5e Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft. It still exists, but without a Dark Lord it’s literally falling apart. Large portions of its map have been swallowed up by the mists, and the implication...

Also, the term Vestige already has a specific meaning within 5e canon. The entities trapped inside the amber sarcophagi in Curse of Strahd and Van Richten’s guide are Vestiges. They’re depicted as remnants of “dead” gods, but in this case them being “dead” mostly means they have gone dormant...

New headcanon: the OC depicted is a Binder, who Bound the Vestige of actual Thomas Jefferson

I’m having trouble reconciling these two statements about Vestiges. Aren’t all of these examples of Vestiges alive? Any Binder stans able to help clarify this for me?

Interesting! 12 HP feels like a lot to me, especially on top of undead fortitude. On one hand I’m glad it worked out anyway, but on the other hand I would have been very curious to hear how it went.

Yeah, that would definitely be better.

Again, 5e fluff is pretty malleable. No reason those things couldn’t be the patron for a warlock with this pact. Ok Could you rephrase this? I’m not understanding it. Well, they’re also a god, so being dead doesn’t have to mean the same thing it means for mortals. Indeed, it kind of...

It’s almost like 4e was actually really well designed.

Kind of an upside-down warlock. Or, like you’re playing a normal wizard for 10 levels, and then at level 11 you retroactively swap your first 10 Wizard levels for Warlock levels. But you still gain “full caster” progression for level 6-9 spell slots… No sir, I do not like this idea one bit.

a dead god is one of the things that can be a vestige

No reason this warlock patron can’t be those things. 5e fluff is pretty malleable.