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D&D 5e is fundamentally not built with this mantra in mind. Legendary Monsters are the most obvious example, as they have generous health and special actions that kick in immediately after a PC acts. Unless you're somehow packing super-reliable instant death effects (that can't be countered by...

I think you're rather misreading me. I'm not saying that 5e's encounter rules think you should only fight a single monster. I'm saying the math for the budgets is centered around a single monster as the baseline. The assumption is not a proscriptive one, it's one of starting points. The starting...

Because single monsters have no special xp calculation multipliers and groups do. Note that I say that the single monster assumption exists within the encounter xp rules. I never said that assumption also existed in WotC's adventure design.

5e's encounter CR/xp rules are built on the premise that you fight a single monster in the default situation. The consequence is that groups are exceptional with slightly different xp calculations and don't quite work out right, as the OP and others have noted. That's because the action economy...

No, I think it wouldn't. Nondetection protects against two things: 1. Being targeted by divination magic. 2. Perceived through scrying sensors. Let's tackle the second one first because it's easiest. See Invisibility doesn't use scrying so that's not applicable. Now for the first one. See...

I haven't played OotA but I remember hearing that insanity is a big part of it. I suspect that the DM has secretly rolled saving throws for the party and communicated to those who failed that they had to attack you now because they've gone crazy. The fact that they act on things which are...

I'm not entirely sure what this is about, but how do you do this? It sound like a low-level (1-4) character so he'd need to have Str 20, a feat, and also two +2 weapons. That's not impossible but it sounds a little... generous. As for the Wizard, well, that's what your daily spells are for...

Roleplaying games are not stories. Stories have pre-defined narratives which exist to satisfy only an audience, not the participants of the story itself. So let us just say that I for one reject your definition of "true" roleplaying games. Edit: I suppose you could also say there are improv...

Readied actions are taken "right after the trigger finishes". Since Fireball has an instantaneous duration, your Dispel Magic would be cast after it already happened.

That depends on what the word "deliver" is supposed to mean in this context. It can mean produce (e.g. "this game delivers good experiences") but it can also mean convey (e.g. "the mailman delivered the game I ordered"). Since the spell is the cause of the attack, it is accurate to say that the...

What is the "normal effect" of an attack made thanks to a spell but physically with a nonmagical weapon? Is it the fact that it's an attack delivered by a spell, whose normal effect is bypassing this kind of resistance? Or is it the fact that the weapon itself is mundane, whose normal effect is...

GFB doesn't turn the melee attack into fire damage. It's an otherwise perfectly normal attack which inflicts its normal effects, and some fire damage is dealt to a secondary character. At higher levels some fire damage is also dealt to the main target but this is separate from the attack itself...

5e's grid rules are a little bit undercooked, probably because they're not the default. I would recommend just lifting 3e's approach to spell AoE wholesale. It's close enough and overall a fairly reasonable approach for grids. The Pathfinder SRD has a helpful picture...

If you follow the logic that an already-cast-and-concentrated-VT can't be used to make opportunity attacks, then you run into a weird scenario if the Wizard does happen to have the Warcaster feat. Because then you get the following: * He still can't make an OA with his VT, because nothing...

That's not really what I meant. 5e is not trying to be exciting in a certain way, for certain classes. For example, Champions are not meant to come with lots of "Step 1" choices baked into the class. So if you're looking for that kind of experience it's not a good kind of subclass to pick...

Whether or not something is "interesting" or "boring" depends on many different facets. Let's look at some of them, starting with the basics of taking a turn. In general terms you can imagine that as a flow cart. First you must decide what action(s) to take, then dice must be rolled, and then...

Pretty sure that Valor Bards already did that at some point in the playtest.

Without giving away anything about its stats: If you're a first level party of typical size and ability then fighting a chimera is a Bad Idea™.

Two strong saves, something which no other class gets. The ability to control a creature while unconscious... even though that creature ceases to exist while unconscious. (It breaks concentration.) Primeval Awareness requires you to spend ranger spell slots. This version of the Ranger doesn't...

Yeah but my point is that that isn't very clear to anyone who doesn't already know these things.