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Perhaps you could try avoiding conversions. Place items into tiers. Each tier uses a specific coin. For example, everything in the laborer tier is quoted in shillings. Larger items are changed to fit the smaller coin. For example, lodgings might be quoted in X shillings per week. Basically...

Honestly, in this case, I doubt the guard would just give you the money. Hand over a fifth of the treasury because you have a note from a new untried king? He's going to say it's above his pay grade, and call in his captain. His captain will probably call in the Chamberlain or other high...

The big issue I see with your plan is that you're doing it in several trips. Your trips can't be close together, otherwise it will be really suspicious. (Court officials X,Y,Z all need 20k gold suddenly?) Second, I think you're discounting gossip and chatter and courtly intrigue. After your...

A thought about the druid. Would it have been better if the main combat cantrip had been something other than conjure flame? While fire is natural, elemental magic is also heavily associated with wizards. Would the druid feel a bit better/different if it used something like poison bolt, instead?

I'm not sure I would agree with you here. My iconic druid is Getafix, from the Asterix and Obelisk comics. And Getafix is very much like a wizard (even has the long white beard). I think druid as "nature wizard" is actually older and more iconic than the druid you seem to be envisioning.

But spellcasting is just a mechanism to deliver meaningful abilities. Let's say you make a new class. To be able to say, "the class has several abilities. You can use any combination of these abilities up to X times a day. As you level up, you can use your abiliities more often" is a great...

In a way, the OP is theorycrafting like a tank. There are essentially two cases to consider: the average case, and the worst case. Sometimes the optimum for the average case is different than the optimum for the worst case. As I see it, taking Misty Step is optimizing for the worst case, which...

I think you hit on the main reason when you invoked Harry Potter. D&D always "reflects" the state of the fantasy genre. Part of the attraction is "I'm going to play a character like X" where X is a famous character. The fantasy genre as a whole has moved to ubiquitous magic. Harry Potter...

Out-of-game problems should be handled out-of-game. As a DM, it's very easy and tempting to punish out-of-game behavior with in-game actions. Doing so is almost always a mistake. The player constantly on his phone is an out-of-game problem. It should be addressed out-of-game. You have to bite...

I would say that it depends on the creature. Claw/Claw/Bite and a fighter's multiple attacks should hit the same creature. But something like a tail slap or Beholder's eye's should hit multiple people. I would say that it plays into expectations. A creature is expected to act in a certain way...

There's a fairly old thread somewhere on these forums about Combat as War versus Combat as Sport. That thread went into great detail about the mindset about this issue, as well as the pitfalls. It's really worth reading. Unfortunately I can't seem the thread, but maybe someone else has better...

Low-level planar adventures can work well if your players don't automatically attack everything. Even going to something like the first level of the Nine Hells can be fine if the players sneak around. I'd go with something iconic from the underworld. Perhaps the Rivers Styx or Lethe, and a boat...

I had another thought. Do you remember the Combat as War/Combat as Sport thread/idea? It really sounds like you are a Combat as Sport person, where you like to set up a well-balanced combat between the two sides that ends in close victory for one side. Your players might be Combat as War...

I agree with this. I think you've pitched the difficulty a bit too high for your standard encounter. Scale it down a bit, and maybe they will have more fun. Alternatively consider adding an explicit "your PCs don't die" rider. Like if they "die", they're only knocked unconscious. That might...

If you're looking for pure balance concerns, perhaps simply making the player sacrifice a level might be enough. Treat the were-rat thing as if it was 1 level, so when the player hits level 3 she becomes 2 Rogue/1 Wererat. She gets most of the were-rat special abilities (maybe not that...

Perhaps consider something like a PC cannot die in combat. If she would die, she is simply knocked unconscious. However, if this does happen to her, she suffers a significant injury (broken arm, fever, etc.) that cannot be magically healed. Or at least, can't be healed instantly, maybe magical...

I was going to say it's fine, but then I saw this and I change my answer to No. The purpose of Wildshift is to shift into an animal form and do stuff that only that animal can do. It's not act as an Alter Self spell or similar disguise ability. The double-shift into female is out of the spirit...

One thing I would add is that you should be a little careful. Armor that does not change sizes has the potential to turn what should be a triumphant moment into a disappointing one. DM: After a hard fought battle with the dragon, you finally kill her and find her hoard. There's a suit of magic...

Out of curiosity, what do you expect the "default" combat action for a witch to be? The action she takes when she does not want to expend any limited resources? I assume it's not going to be a blast-type effect, which is the norm for wizards/warlocks. Or would a zap from a wand be in flavor?

Remember that whatever you choose will apply to PC wizard spellbooks as well. You might not want your PC wizard to lose her spellbook just because she fell into the water. Basically, whatever happens once to an NPC will happen multiple times to a PC. If you don't want to deal with the situation...