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I will note that this is just preference, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with play that has a higher metagame index. It's no better or worse in general than what @AlViking described as their preferred mode of play, just better or worse for an individual.

What's wrong with the existing rules?

Where would you discuss topics equally applicable to a variety of 5e-based games, including WotC's? And does this reserve the D&D thread exclusively to discussion of 5.5? It looks like you want to pull discussion of certain games out of the general D&D thread, so I wanted to know where we should...

Absolutely. I would love it if everyone proceeded from that understanding.

Superhero games are the only ones I care to play where genre conventions are higher priority than verisimilitude (and even then only when there's a conflict), because IMO folks on both sides of the screen have a very hard time abiding by them if they're not enforced to some degree. Too easy to...

Still don't, sorry. The roll itself is not affected by the activities of the PCs, just potentially its frequency. That's my point. You are welcome to decide I was making a different point that you can then argue against if you like, but you are misrepresenting me.

I have never thought that D&D was best for sim. It allows for sim, it has many trappings of it, and can be adjusted to move further in that direction. Combine that with its familiarity to the people I have access to as players and you have a game that can, if played the way I prefer, provide an...

Best 3pp community in the biz for my money. Hoping to join it myself some day soon.

Probably my favorite 5e book, and that includes the core.

I had the reverse. Being assumed by a convenience store clerk to be the father of a man in his mid-30s with thinning hair and a beard (a friend who was in the store with me). Since I'm 49 (and really look it), I suppose he could have been my son, but it still hurt.

Dragon archive, Worldbuilder's Guidebook (2e), Manual of the Planes (1e), Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue (2e), Monster Mythology and all the other 2e god-books, the 2e Wizard and Priest Compendiums and the Encyclopedia Magica volumes, the entire Planescape line of accessories and much of the...

Correct. I don't really see any value in it for my play, and thousands of posts here about it haven't changed my mind.

I assume the check is framed the way the game I'm actually playing frames it.

I didn't realize I was making a burglary check. Who's moving the goalposts now?

Then why does one lose hit points through discrete effects? And why do those effects cause differing amounts of damage/hit point loss, much of which is distinguished from each other via types of damage? Are we still simulating nothing?

I'm really looking forward to @hawkeyefan 's response to this. We could end the whole thread with this.

Organizing entries based on being a new DM referencing them from a published adventure is singularly unuseful to me.

I still use the "general comma specific" style in my own monster lists and documents.

Are you reading the MM cover to cover from beginning to end then? It's still a reference book right?