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Closing your eyes does not change whether or not you have Line of Sight on a target. If your position on the map has a direct line to the target without anything opaque in the way, you have Line of Sight. You only get the saving throw if you CANNOT possibly see the target from your position...

Pregens can work great for inexperienced players who would have no idea how to build a high level character from scratch. You're asking completely the wrong audience by posting here though.

I vote for Engineering if you want a new skill, but personally I would consider tying it to Tinker's Tools proficiency and keeping it RAW

I'd play absolutely anything if I knew the DM and other players were great to hang out with. Fun people beats everything in terms of game rules, every time. That said, I would be really against playing pregenerated characters, and it would take much of the fun out of playing DnD. Your idea...

My favorite way to deal with the problem of players having too many items is to remember that there's no such thing as too many magic items. Problem solved!

It's a very weak ability, and meant to just be a flavorful ribbon feature. The actual Level 3 feature is Reanimated Companion. Jolt to Life is just a neat flavor mechanic that isn't meant to matter but will be really cool once in a blue moon

Definitely true, I took it as a question about what people prefer most among all the options out there.

This is not remotely true, you can absolutely be invested in your offline character build between DnD sessions and then be completely focused on what happens at the table during DnD sessions. They aren't even happening at the same time - how can you think these are exclusive? That's totally...

I agree that publishing a full book about a particular Sandbox campaign is difficult for the reasons you mention. Publishing anthology adventures that can be plopped into homebrew Sandbox campaigns is much easier and seems to be what WotC has been doing more regularly

First level is like the tutorial. You start there if you've never played the game before. Otherwise you skip it and start later. I typically start campaigns at Level 2 even with brand new players.

When I'm playing or DM'ing I ideally want a cohesive campaign from 1-20, or starting later / ending earlier if the group doesn't want to commit to that length of playing time. For a published adventure, I prefer short lengths that are easy to drop into pre-existing campaigns. My favorites are...

Replacing Legendary Actions with increased damage on its turn works perfectly fine. Some people may prefer the unpredictability of spreading out its damage, others may prefer streamlining it all into one turn. In the end it's six of one, half dozen of the other. My only concern would be...

I think it needs changing, by adding attunement.

That's a ribbon feature, the real reason people play Thief is for Fast Hands utilizing magic items as a bonus action and for 4 attunement slots. I can't imagine anyone actually caring if this feature is "given away", if anything it buffs the Thief Rogue the most from being able to access this...

Depending on your table it might be worth talking to your DM about whether they would allow giving your inspiration to others as a homebrew modification. It's not allowed per the rules but it's also not particularly overpowered, especially if you modified it to only work on others and never on...

I keep things 100% by the book, meaning that every race published in a WotC 5e book is included (not including third party content). (I do put a homebrew nerf on Aarakocra, Fairy, Owlin, and variant Tiefling to change their flight similar to 2024 Aasimar Heavenly Wings ability... which is close...

Does look more like satire to me than sarcasm. Either way I have no idea what point they're trying to make

Why does the encounter even exist if the goblins have no chance and it's not part of a storyline? My direct answer to your question is that we play out every combat but we would never include a pointless combat like the one you describe. Any time there is a pointless combat (like say a PC goes...

Correct, it is meant to be an anthology of separate standalone adventures that can be run as one-shots or dropped into other campaigns. Whenever they make these anthologies, nothing would stop a DM from stringing them together into an overarching campaign, but it definitely takes some work to do so

Please point to where I said it was weird. All I said was that it surprised me because it was not the most obvious choice. That's a pretty bland statement and I don't get why you're acting like I'm being critical or controversial here. To quote the actual author in her description of the...