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We allow drawing and sheathing one weapon on a turn. Peeps with the dual wielder feat can draw and sheath two weapons. We tend to hand wave it most of the time.

Sure.

Why did you specifically call out the 3rd option? Option 1 and 2 are just as cheesey. Or is cheese ok when its single class?

People who live in the wilderness aren't sentimental about killing animals, but they generally don't kill more than they need and they don't kill purely for sport. They might kill an animal (or a pack of animals) to protect a settlement or defend themselves, especially if the animal was bold...

This is good advice OP. Just pop down the magic store and buy a.... oh wait, you're only 5th level? Ah gosh that's tough. I guess you'll just have to make do with a shield instead of a CUBE OF FORCE.

I think the race is interesting but you could simply replace the word "orc" with "elf" and it would still fit both mechanically and thematically (in fact, more so for elf because Magic Conservation sounds like an ability a fey creature would have). Remember orcs are bred to fight and die in war...

Yes OP, it would be a dick move to retroactively decide there's a spy close enough to them to hear them talk. As Saelorn said though, not a dick move if the monsters find out the info in combat because the PCs were calling it out for everyone to hear and survive to capitalise on it.

Well firstly, there are people with dark skin and blue eyes in the world today. It's really not that amazing. Secondly, humans are a PoV race in fantasy games. They provide a frame of reference that we can (mostly) relate to. As soon as you change them, they aren't the PoV race anymore...

I think its a good balancing/simplifying mechanic but I also think its a bit broken at high level. In my most recent adventure, the party got hit by a 58 point hellball-thing from a death knight (that was only average damage). Not surprisingly, not one character made the DC 28 con save to...

Fayed al Zhor's Armor (unique, requires attunement) This +2 Plate Armor also has the abilities of Adamantine Armor. If you die while attuned to it, you can't be returned to life by means short of True Resurrection or Wish. In addition, if you aren't returned to life by the next full moon, you...

Monsters have had far too easy a ride with this administration. We need to crack down hard, and we need to crack down now! Otherwise we may as well hand over the keys to the kingdom!

As a player, it was back in 1e. Our 1st and 2nd level characters were camping in the wilderness. During the night, the DM rolled an encounter and the encounter was an ogre. I think we thought we could take it but instead it got lucky with some crits and wiped the party.

Oh I see. Personally, I'd go for a over-the-top, light-hearted tone. If it's humorous and a bit silly, the players can overlook the incongruity of a room of sharks next to a lava pit of devils. The abrupt changes in direction become a narrative strength rather than a jarring annoyance.

Yeah, kinda seems like a lot of work. Why not just use the Donjon 5e random dungeon generator? https://donjon.bin.sh/5e/dungeon/

Yes, but just think how cool it would be to scare the crap out of the PCs by describing a ghost undead creature attached to the possessed persons head. :D

No? You've never had a principled paladin decide to kill the party thief? Or attack an important NPC because they detected evil? Because I think there are a few paladin-hate threads along these lines... Also, with respect, it seems like you're overanalysing encounters. They don't have to...

EXACTLY! DnD isn't an adversarial game but sometimes I'll ham up an attack that I know will miss just so the player can have the satisfaction of the miss. If they built their character to have high AC, then you have to give them that. Sure you can ruin their fun by having monsters with +18...

Same. I had a few in 3e but not in 5e. Personally I don't mind if a player comes up with a tough rules-legal build. I figure I've always got the option of banning it. I've never done that though.

Dunno. Probably pump intelligence and con, write up a huge background, then dump the whole idea as silly and make a proper character?

I'm not sure I agree. A fight with a big bad at the end isn't a bad ending to a mega-adventure, and it's interesting if the big bad can be defeated by something other than "stand there and exchange blows until someone falls down". My issue with the mega adventures is something different - where...