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I think those two things would be enough, so long as the right rules “bloat” (subjective, I know) was cut, of course. “Right” according to my own tastes, naturally. But either way, as far as I’m concerned, 5e HP totals go way too high, and pretty fast at that, in some cases. Like, if they were -...

My preferred approach starts with fixing Fighters and other “martial” classes (i.e., by making them more capable, in specific ways). But yes, in addition to that, I would also like to see: no cantrips, or at least not infinite cantrips; lower HP; broadly interruptible casting; having to learn...

The GM’s. Oh, as for how and why, that varies by player, group, system, campaign. But probably GM as well.

Yes, particularly monsters, but also spells, magic items, and even a few mechanics at times.

Either the deities that come with a published setting, or my own, for homebrew settings. Currently running some Realms (in the pre-4e mode), so Realms deities it is.

Can be down to innate tendencies, circumstances, past or present interactions, or indeed, some kind of reaction roll, basically. And yes, morale can play a part once battle is underway, but won’t always. Overall, “it depends” would be the case, but that wasn’t an option, so I simply didn’t vote.

Almost always average.

1/5, if that. I lost faith in WotC some time ago.

The 14 in the OP plus a good gish.

Half plus roll the other half (e.g., d4+4 instead of d8) is my personal favourite.

More emphasis on bloodlines, right from 1st level onwards. Points. See #1. No. No. Cha. Yes, and definitely should be. Considerably more so. No, not “need”. But ideally, that would be the case.

What would I do? Make 6e, 7e, or whatever we’d be up to at this stage, the overall most amazing edition of D&D. Open everything up, license-wise. Release PDFs of every book from every edition, including the current one. But then, I’m not beholden to that whole corporate life thing, nor would I...

Well, that was a heck of a lot darker than the Fallout games I’ve played (which is most of them). Liked it all the more for that.

Might Agility Will Awareness Split the spellcasters between will and awareness types. And this would depend on just how many caster types you’re going to include.

Most of what I’ve seen has been people reusing the existing unified magic system, and even all or most of the standard spells, regardless of what they’re trying to represent. Is there anything really different out there, for 5e in particular? Thanks

My take on TN is simply not doing a heck of alot of G, E, L or C things. Not enough to tip the scales. Then again, of course, you might get the odd zealous TN type that’s all about perfect balance and absolute neutrality. But I’d have it as either they don’t exist, or they’re very rare.

Str: Barbarian Dex: Rogue Con: Fighter Int: Wizard Wis: Cleric Cha: Warlock

You’re probably right, in terms of profit margins or suchlike. It’s just that, from a totally selfish PoV, I’m one lf those DMs that refuses to subscribe to online TTRPG services of any kind, and will stick with standalone, offline documents* for the duration. * And physical books, actually.

Not that anyone will care, I imagine, particularly not those at WotC, but FWIW I would’ve bought at least the 5e core books (very likely others too) as PDFs, that being my preferred format most of the time. As well as the hardcovers, incidentally - I like to have both. But again, one point of...

It seems unlikely, for a number of reasons. But I will probably view whatever comes up with my usual curiosity, and who knows, there might be some neat mechanics worth bolting onto a game we will be playing.