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simulation to me is...trying to give everything enough of it's own set of rules to minimize the amount of times where you need to ask 'well how should this resolve?', it is trying to model the world and the things in it, those things don't need to be realistic outcomes by our standards but they...

it 'works' but there's certainly a group who is not happy about how it is working.

mostly something closer to the latter than the former, a PC 'bloodied' mechanic in a similar vein of exhaustion inflicting distinct penalties, i don't think death saves ought to be removed wholesale but perhaps something that disinclines people from wanting to be taking them in the first place...

No, NPCs aren’t PCs, by their definition they can’t be, but i see no logical reason why that means they wouldn’t have the same traits that every single PC member of their species does, I don’t see PCs as some special ‘species plus’ variant of their people, the party elf might be stronger...

Sorry, something about how this is phrased is just short-circuiting my brain’s ability to parse the proper meaning from it, could you rephrase more plainly please?

i know there's the death spiral argument but do you think DnD ought to try implement anything that curbs the 'the only hit point that matters is the last one' mentality where you run at 100% effectiveness right up until you're making death saves.

are hit points meat? luck? stamina? it doesn't really matter, hit points are ENOUGH to simulate what they're trying to simulate.

besides simplifying the overhead of running the game, i honestly question why you'd want NPCs to not have the same list of traits that their PC counterparts have?

is there really not a middle ground for species having their own distinctions between 'superficial aesthetic differences' and 'alien unknowable experience'?

i personally like halflings as they are, i wouldn't want to see them merged with something else for the sake of consolidating unpopular archetypes or whatever, BUT, if i did have to choose a species to do that with i'd pick harengon, go for more of a beatrix potter-peter rabbit vibe with them...

i feel like all characters, PC or NPC ought to start out with like, 12~HP and that should be the baseline for truly 'defence bypassing' attacks, enough to take one hit from most any basic weapon once(without additional modifier damage) but enough to fall to two to three or a crit, maybe you get...

i mean, it's not that i don't think an artificer couldn't do demiplane stuff, it's that they're just spontaneously bamfing them away in the middle of a fight that doesn't feel right to me for them,

try saying that to all the organizations that are 90% humans or the elven village in the forest.

wall of stone i can see the train of logic there, it sort of fits the idea of an artificer with abilities that 'build' things, though in a more magical sense where they earthbend the wall out of the ground rather than having any sort of gadget that does it, and if Maze wasn't in a demiplane and...

equal opportunity relevancy for whatever PHB species they want to pick, if i want to pick a dragonborn i don't have to grasp for scraps of local setting lore interesting or relevant to my character while the human, elf and dwarf are swimming in more options that they care to know what to do with.