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Yep.

Aarakocra are a delicacy to many races, they are often hunted as food. In the opening scene of PotA the six characters will walk past three hunters that are cooking an aarakocra to underscore this point to the two bird characters, to see how they will react (we start next Tuesday).

It all depends on the skill and experience of the DM, and the level of cooperation from the players. Four to six is optimal, but I played in one group with 14 players (two assistant DMs).

Make it super simple... set a number of game sessions to play at each level.

No further comments, we each enjoy different things about each game system/edition we play. I really do like the simplified rules, but they went too far in removing magic.

That would be absolutely correct, I loved the richness of earlier magic systems. To each their own. But as I said "I learned to play a wood elf monk of the open hand with the mobile feat."

Magic... it's gone literally and figuratively. But that's OK, I learned to play a wood elf monk of the open hand with the mobile feat.

The biggest drawback is over-weakened magic, fortunately veteran DMs can adjust for that.

1) You decide it's what you and your players want to do. 2) You decide it's what you and your players want to do. 3) You decide it's what you and your players want to do. If none of the three above reasons work for you, then do something else.

I 'borrow' Constantinople from Vampire, Dark Ages. There are a lot of good maps available for use.

The campaign setting book creates a good frame for a world, it's what becomes all the canon around it over the years that is playing someone else's game. If you don't have time, stick with the book as written.

Some people like to play someone else's story, some people like to create their own.

It is a bland module if played by the book, it requires the DM to spice it up a bit.

It's like Fox News' war on Christmas, it's usually people that are too touchy feeling defensive over nothing.

When maximizing is about winning rather than interesting, then it does hurt the game (from my perspective).

Core classes have been replaced with the four abilities they represented... heavy combat, stealth, healing, and arcane magic.

Or you can do the opposite and have a Galactica campaign, where there are no human cities and survivors are hunted by all other races. However some non-human adventurers are willing to risk the death penalty and associate with them.

We usually encourage the players to design guilds and organizations. In HotDQ my dwarf fighter is an armor smith and stone mason from Silverymoon. The stone masons guild was to be called the Icewind Dale Independent Order of Terraformers, but the DM said that name was idiotic.

I am the Drew Carey of DMs... "Where Everything Is Made Up & The Points Don’t Matter." I advance the group to the next level when I want to, based on their interest in needing new abilities, and my wanting to increase the toughness of challenges.

Ha! The only time I participated in a group player-character kill was when a player moved (pre-internet days), and it was like ants swarming his body and keep for magic items and treasure.