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This is what I would absolutely avoid in a pirate campaign. Freedom and independence (and from a gameplay perspective player autonomy)...

The point is to have fun, after all.

Not bothered, haven’t noticed any problems. Having learned to play on 1st edition, I never payed any attention to CR when planning...

Which is something I try to avoid. I usually have Indiana Jones style time pressure. The door takes exactly as long to descend as it...

Quite. I disagree. My players have had enough constant pressure all day at work. They play D&D to relax.

You don’t generally need to clear the area for Diablo clones. Your abilities are on cooldowns that recharge during combat, and your...

Diablo and it's clones work nothing like that! Pretty much all class abilities recharge in a matter of seconds. The only reason to...

This is a curious one, since the original time restriction was real world time, not in game time. The players had a fixed amount of time...

Your content needs to be appealing to the players. If they want the game to have easy combat, that is their prerogative. You don't have...

That’s back to “the rules are perfect, the problem is the players”. The solution, therefore, is to get rid of the players and the rules...

Which games? I can't think of any that work quite how you describe. But I came from the era of Pong and Space Invaders, and we always...

Not in my experience. Many players are quite passive and prefer to wait for the GM to give them somewhere to go and something to do. I...

The narrative of this ability is that it makes your spells more powerful, either by increasing the save DC or making them more likely to...

Sure. The fiction of the spell is that the magic guides the attack, then the weapon does damage in accordance with physical laws*, much...

You said “the weapon does no damage”. You said nothing about hitting or missing.