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Given that your group is clearly into mature themes and capable of handling them, I'd say you should trust in the maturity of the player. Move the entire encounter into a more "free-form" narrative style. Frame the scene, determine what the player's intentions are, how they see the scene playing...

I think this thread has turned into a unicorn hunt at this point.

Only if I'm allowed to voluntarily lower my initiative to 12 or less if I roll higher. The last thing I'd want to do is roll a 13 initiative. That would basically mean I'm going "last".

Just to be clear, is your reply to me a refutation that complaints, such as the example I provided, would occur? By your own admission, modules have been doing this throughout D&D's long, illustrious history. So I'm not sure what's all that "new" about your ideas here. Heck, CoS does this exact...

...Followed immediately by a great many cries of, "This module was terrible! The timeline was useless! My players didn't do anything the writer projected. So I had to decide whether to do a bunch of work on the fly to keep up with their decisions, or scrap it and just tell them they lost a third...

I've played in games where the DM spent far too much time flipped around a 32-page module, constantly looking for whatever little tidbits of author-assumed data could help him make the "right decision". I can't imagine a "fully comprehensive" module that is intended to cover every possibility...

My wife's cat hates, hate, hates, being in the car. Even as a passenger. So I have no doubt it would hate driving it even more.

Don't forget to carry the '1' and divide by pi...

Is it fun to feign the high ground? Irregardless, when are you going to get around to explaining what any of what you've said so far has to do with my original post you quoted?

Oh, I see now. You weren't actually addressing my posts or points. Just quoting me seemingly at random then going off on tangents. Copy that.

Wait. How is a fighter get 3-shots-per-round at only 3rd level? Are you sure you are familiar enough with how 5e works to be having this conversation? You do realize that even if you have crossbow expert, for variant human, the extra attack from the feat takes your bonus action, right? And that...

Well, I suppose when hyperbole is made the rule of the day, its hard to argue with. I mean nobody wants to play a bunch of characters that are all half as effective* as that one guy over there! [That's right, I'm pointing at you, crossbow expert!!! You broken cheese-monkey who's whole goal in...

I just think its funny when some people, who treat the ignore feature as a knuckle slapper, only end up looking foolish for having posted something someone else said many posts earlier.

Sorry but yes. Its double now? Wow, twice as good is huge! Which adventure are you talking about? You miss the whole issue so completely, I'm not certain there is a way back for you. Did you want to play a dwarf axe fighter? Did you have fun being a gruff, stocky brute in heavy armor, with a...

First, more power to you. I'm not one to criticize someone making preferential changes to 5e. Go crazy. Try things out. Have fun making it your own. I don't even have any serious issues with what you are basically trying to achieve here. I mean, it's a clear power bump, but so what. I think 5e...

IMO a fundamental "miss", with claims that going all-ranged is obviously the best choice, is that we should otherwise be seeing a bunch of posts about how a group keeps getting systematically TPKed because they consist of a barbarian, paladin, valor bard and moon druid. If that party routinely...

I think maybe there's a bit of disconnect here. Is everyone familiar with the definition of the word, 'exacerbate'?

Can you show me where I've made that argument. In fact, I specifically said different groups aleways have problems with any given rule set. Because none are perfect. Now I'm starting to feel like you aren't bothering to read my posts and just want to be contrarian. That's, again, the real...

Your typical 5th-level game is clearly far different than my example would imply. But that's cool. To each their own. I ditched magic item wish lists, expected treasure, and build-necessary item acquisition an edition ago. That you still play that way is fine and all. But I would caution you not...

I clearly said 'exacerbated'. Are you disagreeing with my observation? Sure. I could have guessed. I'm not at all surprised your choices have led you to your current situation. After all, that's how most people end up where they are. The amalgam of preferences and choices has resulted in your...