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The problem with powergamers, as I understand it, is intraparty imbalance, which tends to be followed by the campaign ending early. Usually because either (i) an inadvertent TPK when the GM pumps up the battles to try and challenge the OP PC, and things go horribly wrong, or (ii) other players...

This is awesome

I personally think the best way to sort out raise dead is to .... remove it from the game entirely. No revivify, raise dead or resurrection spells on PC lists. Might still exist outside of that, but highly rare/etc with special setback. Works pretty sweet. No-one wants to die, that's for sure.

This is gaming gold and the exact sort of encounter you will always remember. So awesome!

I had a martyr situation as a player with my level 17 PC in 4e a few years back. It is one of my favourite gaming moments of all time! Dwarf paladin of clanggadin. He was good fun to play, but always wanted to die in battle. Ah fond memories. I highly recommend this option to the OP if it comes...

I was looking at this about a month ago on a related topic, trying to make some non-magical qualities for weapons for a low magic setting. I ended up going with cold iron (good vs undead and demons/fey), silvered (good vs lycanthropes and aberrations), mithril and adamantine. I initially had...

I prefer to go old school on difficult to see and blindness - with a 33% and 66% miss chance respectively.

I usually love a sandbox - but, hmm, this sounds rather harsh. And sadly - if I have my ravenloft right - the party cant really leave and just go do other stuff for a year leveling up - the mists and all that?

OK I had to go and check out Yoon Suin - and it sounds excellent indeed! Cheers for the tip off!

I believe it is the division of short rest based classes, and long rest based classes, that is broken balance wise, as opposed to the warlock specifically, although the warlock is the classic short rest class. I disagree about if you can take a 1 hour rest, you can take 8 hours, we often don't...

Thanks man, hope you can use some of it.

This is very very similar to what we are experimenting with currently. So far it works excellent. No-one wants to drop to zero and being knocked unconscious often has a lasting effect (our injury table has a 17+ no injury window, so sometimes they come out unscathed).

That. Is. AWESOME.

LOL! Well sounds like it is working as intended then! I'd be very interested to hear how this system plays out in the higher level games, as monster damage gets increasingly large. But as you say at 12th+ the PCs have a lot more control over whether they engage/or stay engaged, in a fight.

OK, not strictly 5e, but I figure there is enough generic material here that it might be of interest to some 5e games? The table is about 90% mundane (hopefully with a bit of a twist or interesting feature or side trek seed) and about 10% mildly enchanted. I recommend rolling twice and using...

I've never seen a one shot kill in 5e, probably because we didn't stay level 1-2 long and then you are out of the danger zone. I would looove a 5e death mechanic which sustained that danger of 1st and 2nd level (well, maybe not first - but 2nd!). I like Shidaku's idea and think that could work...

I like this idea a lot. I think this would work awesome from 1st - 10th or so. Do you allow a death save when they hit -ve Con hp, or insta dead? I think for my players insta dead would feel a bit harsh, but they would probably go for a single death save when hit -ve Con. Have you seen many...

I agree with the -5/+10 mechanic being broken in 5e. There are too many easy combos to effectively negate the penalty.

All I know is, as a player and GM, I like to describe serious swords wounds etc once a target is bloodied, and then again when reduced to zero hp. Very slow natural healing seems to fit this model better than overnight full reset. And that's why I prefer slow healing.

LOL! Me too!