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*shrug* Not sure what warranted the passive aggressive response, but I was just clarifying for the person you were responding to. It sounded like you felt that discussing long rests was irrelevant when you said: But the person you were responding to was discussing things about long rests which...

My games are mostly theater of the mind for technical reasons. I can do flanking with my system but players have a little more trouble remembering where everyone is so I don't bother. I like the house rule in the OP a lot though. Still, if I used flanking I think a I would go with advantage. I...

I love how clean the OP's idea is. What if it was like "You can use your proficiency bonus instead of your DEX bonus when calculating your AC"?

You think bows should be "faster" than melee attacks?

I've been thinking a lot about this. Thinking of trying a one shot where player roll imitative like normal, but then AFTER their action they roll a die. Dodge and other weird actions: 1d10 Melee attack: 1d8 ranged attack: 1d6 Spell: 1d4 They then add their initiative bonus to the result and...

Was there an opportunity for them to try to break the door down or circumvent it?

Under the premise that short rests are so long, anytime you could rest for an hour you can often rest for 8 instead.

We know doors, traps and switches can be hidden so duh. Finding the best place to put it: Stealth using your INT mod instead of DEX or using Investigation. Better results make for a harder DC. Camoflaging something: Nature, disguise or Survival. Better results make for a harder DC...

I think mine are pretty simple. 1. HP: You can either take half NOT rounded up or roll for new HP. Players are hard enough to kill after level 3 that I don't mind giving 4hp off of a d8 instead of 5 per level. Rolling HP usually leads to some cheap laughs and my players always try it. I think...

My players have never mentioned going to the bathroom OR bathing once. They fail a lot of persuasion checks.

I've long threatened to make it a base ability instead of a skill.

I always assume players recover arrows and rope and stuff I don't want to listen to them talk about. I also let them "have" actions that are common sense if only becuase it's not worth it to have a whole discussion that ends with the game becoming more tedious and with me taking agency from the...

Yeah, I think there needs to be a distinction between a linear path and a critical path. All good adventures probably have a critical path. Linear is just a matter of taste.

There is no reason you couldn't do both in 2016. The original Pool of Radiance is a classic from before I was born, but I play it once every few years when I have no group. No reason you can't make a story driven evocative and thematic tactical RPG using D&D's mechanics from my POV. It'd be no...

I got on it and then the page crashed. It seemed really cool too :( it had 3 options, one to auto-create a character using reccomended stuff. Another to make a completely random character and another to make a custom character.

I like this idea a lot. I was batting around an idea that was basically using 4e's encounter and daily powers instead of spell slots, but this idea feels a little more fleshed out and thematic while still being different.

If they made a turn-based game like the OG gold box games using 5e mechanics, I would be happy forever. Basically take X-Com or Invisible Inc but use D&D mechanics and an RPG overworld with dialogue trees. You'd think I was suggesting something crazy if they didn't unveil a freaking Mario game...

Oh for sure. I have a simple homebrew system where magic works that way but is super dangerous and always "costs" you something. I was honestly curious to read some homebrew classes. Maybe a Eldricht Blast Warlock is pretty close to what I was thinking. It just reads so crazy to a beginner.

These games driven by reading tea leaves always make me feel less creative because it feels like a I have to solve a basic little puzzle before I can talk. Maybe I just never stuck with it long enough to internalize what all the little symbols mean though.

I have a character without a name in my campaign. He wrote it in a magic book that erases things from history without knowing what he was doing. I'd also happily let you play a character with no eyes if you promise you won't let it bog down the game. Heck, I won't even make you draw a portrait...