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Yeah, but such catastrophes in the RPG industry are not substantially due to deliberate hostile actions by competitors.

Of course, if we bother to actually read all that text in the MM between the monster name and the stat block, we do find a lot of information and inspiration about probable tactics and motivations and so forth for the various monsters.

Perhaps, but is that what you want to do in play? Also, the difference between Proficiency and Remarkable Athlete is +1 from levels 7-8, +2 from levels 9 to 16, and +3 from levels 17-20. So while Proficiency is better, it's not huge. Is a +3 bonus to Athletics (say) at level 17 worth more or...

Well, big companies don't mess around with crowdfunding at all. Big companies make a business case (either internally or to investors) and get approval to fund their products from capital.

Yes, but the important thing is whether your PC is "good enough" to have a "reasonable chance of success" at doing what you want to do in play. Exactly what "good enough" and "reasonable chance of success" mean is a matter of taste and circumstance. However, your PC certainly doesn't need to be...

Yes, but perhaps a more effusive version that help by providing a bit more detail on possible options for the interpretation would be good. Are there reaction tables in the modern DMG; can't remember and I'm at work.

Remarkable Athlete will apply to all Physical Skills that lack proficiency. I can also choose to take proficiency on some Physical Skills. This makes me twice as good at those Skills (hence "double down"), but means Remarkable Athlete has no effect on those skills. Or I can accept that...

Good adventures do. What would be much more useful in a DMG or MM (probably DMG) would be one or more random tables of strategic goals and tactics. With stuff like "just passing through and will attempt to disengage with minimal casualties" or "defending a nearby breeding ground and will fight...

This is something that I always consider! Do I double-down on the physical skills or take the opportunity to be good at other stuff too? If Survivor was acquired earlier, I'd probably want it to scale with level somehow. Kind of like how Second Wind does. Maybe something like "the HP regain is...

Yes, Shove is great for a champion, especially (as you say) once the champion has extra attacks. For me, the most reliable, consistent way for the champion to get advantage is to have a retainer/follower/hireling. The idea being that they stand alongside you and use the Help action on you. Of...

The champion is more effective when she attacks with advantage. So is every character making an attack roll, of course, but a champion attacking with the advantage has a just under 20% chance of a critical (increased from just 10% without the advantage). Whereas another sort of character has 5%...

The general idea is kind of elegant, but for me it would require a bit too much buggering about between rounds to be viable. Especially with large groups of NPCs/monsters. However, I suppose "squads" of monsters could share a card. After all, I play with "squads" of NPCs/monsters sharing their...

True. I was trying to contrast the idea that the small effectiveness boosts granted by the Battlemaster require the player to actively do something, to make a decision to spend a resource. Which means that the player could also not achieve the effectiveness boost by making the wrong decision...

One person's "waste of time" is another person's "building atmosphere and paranoid tension". Sure I wouldn't like it if this happened lots. But happening once in a campaign (and not every campaign) is fine. It's the sort of thing that players/PCs will refer "fondly" back to later, "You want to...

Agree. A PC with the opportunity for a good HP total, a good rate of resting HP recovery, (both due to a d10 HD), proficiency in good weapons and good armour, and (at higher levels) the extra attack feature, pretty much has everything that makes her an effective fighter in 5e. The archetype...

Yep, done that too. But I think that's a different sort of "lie". Even though it's going to be fraught to articulate why. For me, that sort of "lie" is part of the theatre of DMing. Much like trying to speak in different accents, and waving your arms around, etc. Another part of why it is...

No, but they are obligated to try to make the game fun. And successfully ambushing and eliminating the PCs before they have a chance to react is unlikely to be considered fun. There's nothing wrong (or unexpected) about monsters/NPCs attempting similar, highly effective tactics to the PCs. It...

I suppose you could read the original statement like that (if you do, I agree with your comment). However, to me, it doesn't read like a claim that there is only one strategy. It seems to be more a claim that if the enemy is able to attack, then a (viable) strategy has failed. Which, of course...

Depends on context, obviously. But the party could have members scouting way ahead of the main group. Or familiars and so forth flittering ahead. Which doesn't mean you will always correctly identify threats before they are encountered...but that's just one of the ways the strategy can sometimes...

In my experience, as DM, because the DM is an idiot and he didn't think things through. The usual time it comes up, for me, is "rolling a large number of dice damage and getting an unexpectedly high total". As I said, though, it's actually usually a lot of fun to just let unexpected disasters...