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As a player I wouldn't let my character wear them - some other party member can have them. As a DM I'd leave it up to the player to come up with their own reasoning. The rest of the group would make it a running joke.

Sorry, as the op I should have answered you earlier One reason is simply a matter of conversion from older versions of D&D. In most of our previous games we have had a character that has done some form of shield bashing or spiked shield use. In particular 3e had very specific (although awkward)...

Yup, that's true. I was intending on doing this without the need for the tavern brawler feat simply by being liberal with the improvised weapon rules which already allow for the use of the proficiency bonus if the DM permits (that would be me and I do). As Shiroiken points out, this would...

I'm considering making the shield into a melee weapon in my game. As it stands its an improvised weapon doing 1d4 points of damage but without the proficiency bonus to attack. If I made it into a full melee weapon it would mean that a character could use their proficiency bonus to attack with...

Isle of the Ape (1e) was always pretty fun as a high level adventure

Chris Perkins uses the words 'he might show up but he is not really the protagonist'. That suggests to me that they aren't going to scale him down specifically for a beatable encounter. Sounds like there is a good chance you can complete the adventure without actually meeting him, and if you do...

Not that I think there will be an encounter with either a lich or a demi lich in the adventure, but the power of the lich boils down to if you stick with the book spells or not. As written I imagine that a 10th level party has a pretty decent chance of beating the lich since all it has prepared...

Our high level converted campaign is going very well at 20th level using 5e rules. Everything is there to support it. Just not the pre written adventures, but who wants those at that level. For us almost everything is player driven at these levels. Once you thrown out encounter guidelines then...

There was a hint to this in the last Ed Greenwood book which I didn't realise at the time. Clerics were having difficulty casting raise dead. Probably relates to this 'eating resurrection magic'.

The Exiled - there were a number of places that for some reason wouldn't have us back

I played a cleric to 10th level in a party of 4 and found it variable. We played it so that we only made the extra 1d4 when it was needed - as in a target AC or saving throw was just missed. I rarely cast it on the druid as he often didn't make attack rolls when casting spells. Whole combats...

So you knowingly all took GWM to go with your reliable advantage and then compound it by frequently casting bless. Well done for all being brokenly awesome. Sounds fun I guess this is one of the things that 5e didn't fix - players attempting to break their own game.

Original Greyhawk adventures were typically set in a single location, often dungeon based. They were also short - a single module might level you up once or maybe twice. However several were directly related to each other. Some of those were later complied into a mega module. So for example A1 -...

An example to explain why I like passive perception for pure simplicity reasons A party of 5 is in combat with a bunch of goblins with plenty of hiding places. After each attack, each goblin can attempt to hide as a bonus action. If we don't use passive perception then every single goblin turn...

Our group doesn't optimize much at all, although we play combat pretty efficiently. What I don't really get is where this regular advantage comes from. Our characters rarely get it. Are people using grapple and shove to prone opponents? Or is it spell use? I get the barbarian example (which is...

Well no not optimal, because if it was then we wouldn't be discussing GWM since it pales compared to certain ranged options ;). However the reality is that one of our games has exactly that barbarian in it and its not been a problem at all. The player took the feat because it looked fun rather...

Under fairly optimal* conditions for the barbarian this feat equates to about 5 extra points of damage per hit, or 10 per round. I'm not sure what game that breaks but its certainly not ours. *Assuming average AC, reckless attack, bless spell, Str 20 I don't believe GWM is a problem at all...

Except for rolling low on your hit dice when you level up - that hurts!

I don't know about you but I have to dumb it down to play a 12 Int character :) I reckon Int 8 is pretty tricky to do for most of us RPGers

Looks good to me. I typically use the famous NPCs in my game but its nice to have some stats as a reference. Level 19 seems right as does the class mix