Conducting the Game
Rolling the Dice And Control of the Game (p.110) 
This section applies in Oath-Bound as written in the DMG.
Handling Troublesome Players (p.110) 
| The vanilla DMG addresses troublesome players primarily through GM authority and character-level consequences. Oath-Bound takes a different view on both mechanisms. |
Peer pressure — the table holding its own norms — is the most effective and least disruptive corrective mechanism available. A table that has established shared expectations will usually resolve player behavior problems without GM intervention. Where the GM does need to act, the conversation is with the player, not the character. Punishing a player character for the behavior of the player who runs them conflates two distinct things and produces resentment rather than correction.
Integration Of Experienced Or New Players (p.110)
This section applies in Oath-Bound as written in the DMG.
Multiple Characters For A Single Player (p.111)
This section applies in Oath-Bound as written in the DMG.
Intervention By Deities (p.111) 
| The vanilla DMG treats divine intervention as a rare but available dramatic event. In Oath-Bound, the gods of the Velasian foundational pantheon have no practical ability to manifest. Their presence in the world is real — the oath economy, miracle access, and the weight of Bound Oaths are evidence enough of that — but it is institutional and indirect. They act through Foundations, through concord, through the consequences of oaths sworn and broken. They do not appear. |
Whether this was always so is uncertain. Pre-Velasian tradition holds that an Open Call, made with sufficient weight and witness, might once have produced a direct divine response. There is no evidence that it ever did, and no evidence that it did not. The Velasian Foundation model settled the question by making it moot: a world in which divine will operates through institutional machinery has no need for apparitions.
The vanilla rules for divine intervention do not apply. Exceptional cases are addressed through the miracle model in the Divine Actor corpus.