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No one was misunderstanding what "targets one creature" means. This is a change. It may be a change to what was intended, but it is a change.

Locking monks in a cage by making all the abilities of other classes that require a weapon not work with their unarmed strike is pretty exclusive. By RAW I don't think monks can even move in between unarmed attacks now.

Damage is also the only thing many characters bring to combat so their only way to "shine."

1) At level 1 a wizard that would have 8 HP (14 CON) now effectively has 22. Balance issues. 2) At level 3 (20 HP) if that wizard goes unconscious his new HP max is -1. Uh oh. -1 isn't 0 so technically the rules don't cover this case. 3) The unconscious wizard now doesn't receive HP...

Total fanboism. There is a difference between handing us something that isn't good and handing us something that doesn't work. The artificer is an example of the first, this is an example of the second. We aren't angry because it is of low quality, we are angry because it is completely...

I generally just go with randomish and let them sell them and buy (some) of what they want. If they really want something though I expect them to go and murder whoever has it and take it or craft it themselves.

Doesn't sound like he's too concerned about taking from previous editions, more about making sure it's different/weird but not warlock weird or like other casters.

This is more like someone offering your kid a cigarette. Hurray, free lung cancer. The player rolls rules are very clunky and the math is wrong. The vitality rules are ludicrously bad, seriously try it out for 2 seconds, you'll see the problems. The alignment section really says...

Is that reason to discourage multi-classing melee classes? I can't see giving a character like a 5 fighter / 5 barbarian a dead level to have anything "good" about it.

We are talking about a game where you are role playing heroes *doing their best* to live through 6-8 fights per day and save the world. Emphasis on "doing their best." Sure, not all games are like that, you could be playing a farce where your character is Zapp Brannigan, but in general when...

What would be funny is hiring a halfling hand crossbow caddy to hand you loaded bows and reload your empties. I'd call him Baldrick.

In jurisdictions where the monk's fists need to be registered as a lethal weapon the Magic Weapon spell will work on them.

Since cover is granted by the body being occluded and not the square, your halfling simply has to take half a step sideways in his own 5x5 square and can see past your ally just fine. You can then shoot your enemy in the face with your hand crossbow never leaving your own square.

You may think that is more likely than whining and complaining about the "killer DM" because they think level 1 characters should be able to take down the ancient red dragon meant to be the quest give and would rather switch to a less "unfair" DM, but you may be wrong.

I guess when in doubt, run it through the monster builder. If advantage is equivalent to +5, then run the monster through the builder with lower damage from one less attack in the multi-attack but higher attack bonus from the prone, or see what having a special prone ability does to it's CR...

Most DMs dream of being so lucky to have players who have fleeing in their repertoire.

We had a person that quite blatantly cheated. We'd have kicked her out but her brother was a nice guy we liked playing with and he would have quit if we did. Whoever was DMing her at the time would take whatever she rolled, ignore it, and then make up a number in their head and use that...

It is an extremely safe assumption thanks to the magic weapon spell. Your paladin will have a +2 weapon if they want it, and if they're smart enough to go Devotion then for that BBEG they're also guaranteed another +4 or +5 to hit from sacred weapon. +4 str +4 chr +4 prof +2 magic weapon +2.5...

Yes. If it uses a different weapon that changes the damage then you will have to recalculate it's CR and it is no longer a cloud giant but a "cloud giant soldier" or whatever. 5E monsters are not made to be flexible. Modularity got sacrificed for simplicity. The problem with this is that...

They cap at 20 to the stat, so it's unlikely you'd use more than 1 on a stat you care about and being very rare means you're not getting enough in a party to waste multiple ones on a tertiary stat.