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You should check out the "Reply With Quote" button... ;)

Well, to be fair, I didn't exactly come up with it. Just put a few extra touches on it. I'm not really sure what you mean by "chaff" though. You mean superfluous or un-useful parts? Because I really don't think 5e has those. Not in general, at least. Sure, a particular playstyle, or DM...

AT is one option, sure. Not the only one, though. You say that like you think you need an 18 dex in 5e... You mean like you need to get lucky to have these things? I don't understand that part of your post.

EK/Swashbuckler, duelist style, using booming blade with a lightning whip (reskin of flame tongue)! Now that's cool sounding...

You are clearly confusing 'turn' for 'round'. I can see why it would be hard to grok given that. Me too! I don't have a problem grokking it, though. I try not to look at 5e through previous-edition-colored glasses. It helps.

Using the Spell Sniper feat to extend Booming Blade to 10' for use with a reach weapon is clever. Kudos.

I would think most people would reasonably consider a homebrew campaign fully supported. I think mine is. Fully allowed? Sure. But also fully supported. They've given me all the tools I need to run my story. How is this any different?

If you mean, the headache of try to write generic, mass-consumption AP material for the highest levels, I agreed. But, speaking for myself at least, I'd have no problem creating high level content for my group. I only have to worry about what they like/want/can do. Which has the obvious...

Certain grousers will chide your recommendation of a book not produced by WotC...

I'm fairly certain you completely missed my entire point. And that's probably my fault. For that I apologize.

A) Why is it okay to have half-a-dozen complaint posts about a thread being off topic? Aren't they also off topic? B) It's not really a stealth discussion. Its about initiative and how surprise works on the first round. Stealth is just being used as the common example for how to make surprise...

Who's argument? Mine? I thought I was pretty thorough in detailing why/how they are exceptions. What is still possible? Using your version of surprise? How so? Maybe I'm not understanding what it is you are saying you would do differently. Just as the reacting character's abilities might not...

But that's the whole point. Given that you have to win initiative, and can only use a reaction (if you even have one), we are only talking about the exceptions anyway. Otherwise, what's the difference? If a particular character has no beneficial reaction option to help them in that scenario...

5e distinguishes a special type of action called "Reactions" that you can take, once your initiative comes around, even during the first turn when you happen to be surprised. As has been pointed out, one of the features of the Assassin subclass requires that you not only surprise your target...

Pretty neatly, if you ask me. See below... So you'd prefer the monk not have even the slimmest chance to feel that incoming crossbow bolt, and at the last second bat it away? Or the sorcerer to instinctively bring up a shield spell just as she turns to spot the bolt mid flight straight for her...

Huh???

To be a bit blunt, that's a bit of a self-created problem, if you ask me. Obviously, by allowing it to be worded that way, it can create a bit of a disconnect sometimes the way things play out. You are allowing the "declarer" to establish pre-initiative action that is disconnected from the...

Since the material components of the spell are: You should have the "small gem" be a small piece of coal. Got your components covered... ;)

Check out the new Alternity initiative system currently being Kickstarted. It mechanizes the basic concepts I think you are interested in. Different action types use up more "time" and push you further down a track. So someone can potentially take multiple quick actions while someone else got...