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If the pistol subclass is truly balanced with the kensei, then just play a kensei and take the Gunslinger feat.

Some of the best advice I've ever seen for "K.I.S.S."-style setting design: http://jrients.blogspot.com/2011/04/twenty-quick-questions-for-your.html

Sharks can smell "fatigue, bruises, and near-misses" a mile away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Gx8hYi0hQ

I think you are making much ado about nothing.

I'm a huge fan of magical reagents: rare gems, extra planar materials, monster parts, etc. The exact reagent required would depend on what items you are trying to convert. This way, you can decide how easy or hard it is to get the reagent. For example, if someone wants to combine a +1 weapon...

Problem: You need directions to the "Lost Tower of Nosenra the Progenitor." Dexterity (Intimidation): You sneak into the high priest's chambers at night and hold a dagger to his throat and demand he cast divination on your behalf. Failure: Well, he casts a 4th-level spell, but it's not...

Ghouls! They are totally satiated and have no interest in fighting. In fact, they are sitting around a table, chatting about their co-workers. They offer the party some "finger food" and a bit of bloody coffee, in return for the PCs' opinions on whether or not they should unionize.

Problem: A locked, iron-banded wooden door. (Aside: I honestly hate when locked doors have a DC, but no consequence for failure...) Strength: Bash the door down. Failure: 1d6 bludgeoning damage, plus a fairly loud noise. Dexterity (thieves' tools): Pick the lock. Failure: The first attempt...

I reject this portion of the question. The ONLY thing that matters to me is game-play: what effects do these numbers have on how the players act, and on the consequences of their actions. In that context, the difference between "worst PC" and "best PC" is very important and I'd happily discuss...

I was working on a system for controlling ships that dealt with similar issues: On a sailing ship, the First Mate decides how far the ship goes in the round by commanding the crew to "trim the sails" and "batten the royals" and "jib the mizzenmast" and other silly nautical terms, and can make...

As I recall, different careers had a different risk of death (or injury, in later editions), and higher-risk careers tended to have higher rewards as well. But it was very random, so you could still die from a low-risk career, and you could still randomly roll crappy rewards from a high-risk career.

I play this way, and it's awesome. The 20-30 goblins aren't acting alone: they're minions for a formorian warlock. They attack in a group and function more like a terrain hazard, at least until a fireball or a couple of shatters takes them all out. It's similar to 4E's minions, except that you...

Sure, if you want to house-rule stuff, I think there's a lot of fun ways you could force players to cooperate in a device like this. Now I'm imagining fantasy Voltron... EDIT: I'm not saying one interpretation is RAW and the other is a house rule, just that if you are willing/committed to house...

Bounded accuracy works by shifting focus from the quantitative success chance to the qualitative outcome of success failure. The problem is that 5E does this really well for combat, but not at all for other types of skill checks. Tim the archer is a level 1 fighter, so when he hits with a...

All human beings want the same thing: To feel righteous while acting wicked. (As an aside, this is also how you get elected in today's political climate.)

(Sometimes people make poll results private by accident; the poll system here is kinda confusing. "Never attribute to malice," etc.) In general, I'd say that any concept so narrow that you can't immediately think of several "subclass concepts" for it, is too narrow to be a class. However...

A single character can push up to two levers, but they can't push the same lever twice (at least by my parsing of the description). So I'd rule that two characters can push up to four levers, but not the same lever twice. If you need a formal rule for timing purposes, I'd change this sentence...

A cheaper version is eldritch blast, a cantrip which only targets creatures. I can't find anything in the rules that say what happens when you try to cast a spell at an invalid target. Some DMs may rule that the spell is still cast and appears normal, but does not create any effect, e.g. the...

Wood: From an animated tree or a treant. There's a nice ethical dilemma for you. Maybe one will die of old age and donate its body to science? Maybe as they grow, they drop branches, and you can use those? Maybe they like getting "pruned" (it feels good, like a hair cut) and you can use those...