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It sounds like fun when everyone is on the same page. Players control their players. But the party controls the party, if that makes sense. And that's why I as a DM am hesitant (unless asked to adjudicate) to intercede in intraparty actions like convincing B.A. to go along with the plan (or your...

Because no one asked for it, this is what I do. For intraparty actions, all participants must agree on the method of resolution or the action doesn't happen. This can be a simple "no". Player A: I attack Player B. Player B: No. It could be a player who is unsure of how his character might...

As I recall, weights of items in 1e took their bulkiness into account as well. So something could be "heavy" if it was bulky and difficult to move.

I was running X2 Castle Amber. One of the creatures is a Brain Collector that, well, collects brains. It's also a spell caster. The encounter is a solo encounter, so it's much easier in 5e. When I converted the monster to 5e I gave it the ability to concentrate on one spell for each brain it had...

Don't change things until you've actually played the game first. However, I'll give you my opinion on the things you've proposed. 1. In my 2-year campaign which recently ended I added the optional rules of Slow Natural Healing (no HP, only HD on long rest) and Gritty Realism (1 week long rest)...

I voted #4. I actually do ban evil PCs from my game. I don't like evil PCs but more importantly, and it's what I tell my players, I'd be a bad DM for evil players and they likely wouldn't enjoy it. Might as well tell them upfront so they can save their time and not be disappointed.

I just purchased 50 Notice Board Side Quests (or something like that) from DMs Guild. I like what I see from that. Different, inventive quests in the form of postings on a Notice Board. They are short and include nice formatting for the Notice Board you could show your players as well as a...

I think POD is a great way to go for potentially low volume products. They could be official releases with the WotC seal of approval but not generally released to the print market. Users who get their content digitally already wouldn't see any difference but they'd get access to the product via...

Absolutely. The market for 5e seems to be large enough to handle such a product. I'd think you could move 10,000 units of a $150 product easily enough and you wouldn't need to support it further. Fans would know they were getting a well-supported, high-quality product all in one box. I'd buy...

Very small font.

Maybe they just should have made a beast companion a core part of the Ranger. I think it would have solved many of the problems we are having with it.

Wizards obviously has all the sales numbers but we have to remember that any new adventure is sharing shelf space and sales with other books. A better look at the health of D&D overall is total adventure sales in any given month. That being said, I think that too many of the adventures are...

^^^^^^^ This. It might make more sense to give elves low light vision, but 5e dumbed it down. EDIT: or simplified it. 5e, to its credit, simplified a lot of things.

5e modules seem incredibly space inefficient. Maybe it's my imagination, but it seems like 5e books have a lower word count per page than some earlier editions had.

The gnome reincarnation was a random die roll from the reincarnation spell table. I swear! The awesome thing was the four PC party already had one gnome.

I've long gone with the rule of gaining a level of exhaustion on reaching 0 HP. I think I only ever had one PC reach two levels of exhaustion. And this despite long rests being one week so it took seven days to eliminate one level of exhaustion. A lot of PCs hit one level of exhaustion. Two PCs...

Evocative and/or practical. Too much of the art for 5e, for example, is neither. I love the simplicity of black and white line drawings because they are clean and clear. We got a lot of that in 1e AD&D and the D&D books. Too much of the 5e art is too busy to be really good or useful.

What's "maximum impact"? If I need a 20 then advantage almost doubles my chance to hit. If I need a 1 to hit then advantage reduces my chance to miss by 95%. Almost guaranteed success seems maximally impactful. If the enemy needs a 20 to hit then disadvantage reduces damage by a factor of 20...

I approve of the pole arm mastery changes.

I'd scan and blow up the copy so that 1" = 5', then print. It'll be cheaper and more useful than what you can buy.