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I'd agree, but unfortunately IMO the best ways to improve medicine would be to nerf a lot of the bounce-back/natural healing/resilience of 5e characters.. and then medicine could fill to restore some of it. It was pointed out to me that they get all their hit dice back now from a LR in 2024, so...

You covered some nice non combat uses here. Medicine would be a lot more important if characters didn't automatically heal to full from a long rest. Imagine if you could use medicine to restore hit dice! Modern DnD characters are made so bounce-back and durable, but they can be low on hit dice...

I guess I took it for granted that checks are only required when failure is a possibility 😆

Just keep in mind that climb speed =/= spider climb. Having a climb speed means that instead moving at half speed while climbing, you move at full- but you still need to make ability checks to climb! When folk forget this, I point them to the common Potion of Climbing which grants both a climb...

Sometimes. I did it ever since I was a kid, both as GM and player. As a GM nowadays I tend to give the first impression in a voice or with some sort of inflection or different speech pattern, and then once the impression is set I'll switch to 3rd person.

See, I figured OP meant DND 5.X specifically but it just goes to show that you need to specify 😆

One could hope but, well, earlier this year... Project Sigil - 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off

I don't know if I've ever run goblins without some sort of ranged attack 😅 even if it was slings or hucking gross stuff/stones. Typically though they have some short bows. Side note, I wish slings were more prominent!

Giving haste to the fighter. Or fly. I think that's how it was used (all the time) in my Night Below game years ago.

Here's a link to the base game, Demeo. I checked it out a while ago, never picked it up. It looks like this is a DnD-flavored version!

If you're running A5E characters with A5E monsters, it shouldn't be an issue. The A5E characters are, overall, more powerful than 5e- especially the martial characters (and especially the berserker and fighter). Obviously there could be some edge cases, but not in my experience... if the players...

Can you elaborate on both points?

I have hopes. I followed the Mangianello thing somewhat closely at the time, was disappointed when executive leadership changes torpedoed the prospect.

You know it's true, I think as laymen we might underestimate whales (hi I'm a whale). I briefly worked for a video company that made online free to play (with micro transactions) Facebook gambling games.. the vast majority of their revenue was whales.