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Well the first thing I can think of is: you're not going to stop and search inch-by-inch for secret doors in the middle of a raging battle, or while sneaking past a deadly foe, or while frantically trying to deal with a devastating trap or hazard. So danger is a good motivation to NOT search for...

One of my mottos is, a game is a series of interesting decisions. I think your problem is, neither Option 1 nor Option 2 involve any interesting decisions. In Option 1, there's no reason NOT TO search for secret doors, and in Option 2, there is no reason TO search for secret doors. So you might...

Welllll, kind of. It negates ONE point of having a secret door, which is, making the players decide when to search for secret doors. However, there are several other points that it upholds. A) Dungeon design -- The door may be better hidden from one side than the other! Maybe the PCs see it but...

I think there are easier ways to achieve your design goals than overhauling the entire damage system.

(Deleted) EDIT: Have we mentioned using fabricate to churn out suits of plate armor?

Is it in-genre/expected/reasonable for the PCs to go over every inch of wall? If it is, then what you need is a mechanic to speed up the game play, and Passive Perception fits the bill nicely. It means they're guaranteed to find most secret doors, but that's why the PCs are doing it. If it's...

I try to steal as much as I can (monsters, encounters, adventures, areas, NPCs, etc.) so that I don't have to spend much time on prep. I throw as much stuff at the wall as I can, and see what sticks. "Stuff" = plot hooks, NPCs, factions, areas, dungeons, treasures, etc. "Sticks" = gets the PCs'...

o_O Now you are just showing off.

Glad you liked it! I did a similar one for Princes of the Apocalypse but it's not as refined (that adventure spans more levels, too, which makes it harder to figure out fair XP values). I think I posted it to the resources here.

I'm getting a vaguely Wild West vibe. I guess because a drained ocean might have poor soil and thus the whole area should have scrappy plants (grasses, scrub brush, pine trees, etc.). So you could do a lot with bounties, bandits, land disputes, and maybe a gold/oil/astral-diamond rush.

You mentioned not wanting to compete at "bardy things," so could you team up? Be an entertainment duo, maybe collaborating on back-story? One of you could be the straight-man, the other the funny-man. Or one the good-cop, the other the bad-cop. There are several bard colleges that I think would...

(replying to OP) It's not about class, it's about role-playing. You could have two players whose PCs had the exact same stats still seem very distinct through their personalities. In older editions that's kind of what it was like having multiple fighters in the same party -- your choice of...

I find it interesting that the non-mechanical items (alignment, deities, cosmologies) are towards the bottom. I would have expected the reverse.

Mine: This ^^ but for magic items. (It implies some sort of magic item ranking system that is more useful than rarity.)

My lawful-evil gladiator monk, on a quest to become "The greatest warrior in the world!"™️, adopted a piercer (really just kind of scooped it up; those things only move 5 feet) and named it Peony and carried it around in a special harness like a baby.

I came here to say this. Runewild is an amazing book. It's a sandbox adventure, but with a ton of cross-linking between entries to keep things moving. I love it and wish all adventures were like this. (It reminds me of a Savage Worlds plot-point campaign.) EDIT: You said 2-8 sessions... the...

Bonus actions. There is no one single rule that confuses players (even experienced players) more than bonus actions.

Good boxed text is like a good forum reply: short and to the point.

He puts them in suspended animation (imprisonment, maybe) and they are accidentally released by another adventuring party 1,000 years later, after the BBEG is long dead.

A Dungeonborn would be Bane from The Harley Quinn Show.