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Yes, but in-play if a PC has a tool proficiency, then the player generally finds all sorts of pretexts to use it. At face value, Proficiency in Weaver's Tools doesn't sound especially useful. But if a PC has it, then most players will try to find creative ways to use it, which usually leads to...

Intelligence doesn't imply capability to learn (either the D&D Ability, or in the real-world sense of the word). Skills are capabilities, in D&D. There is nothing that implies these must have been acquired by learning, and there is nothing that implies every character acquired a single...

What's the problem? When she climbs a perilous cliff-face you make a Strength (Athletics) check? When she falls off the boat into a swirling ocean, either she just makes a Strength check because she doesn't know how to swim, or she still makes a Strength (Athletics) check, but the DM imposes...

Rather than mucking about with AC and HPs etc, just add one more monster to the encounter.

Assuming you mean "user". This is answered in the rules, which state: "The spell uses the slot level, spell save DC, spell attack bonus, and spellcasting ability of the original caster, but is otherwise treated as if you cast the spell.". So, clearly if the spell requires concentration it is...

For Bonus attacks it depends on precisely what the source of the Bonus Action says it can be used for. For example, the Bonus Action attack granted by Two-Weapon Fighting could not be substituted with Shove or Grapple, as it says that the Bonus Action attack is made "with a different light...

It does make a certain amount of sense to use the CON modifer in Death Saving Throws because Constitution is bodily health. However, you are quite right that it doesn't add because a Death Saving Throw is not a Constitution Saving Throw. The relevant quote from the RAW is "Unlike other saving...

So, kind of like Magician was based on someone's D&D meets Tekumel campaign?:)

I have a feeling that there's an explanation other than "wizards", for the acquisition of wealth in the real world.

You can build a noble's estate with just a sword and attitude!

I struggle to understand the idea of "deal breakers". I can't really think of anything rules-wise, play-style, or setting related that would trouble me enough to not play, or to stop playing. The only "deal breaker" I can think of is obnoxious behaviour from the players/DM unrelated to the game...

Absolutely. WotC won't care about the possibility of divergent timelines. You're playing D&D either way.

It's not an analogy; it's a fact (or at least an opinion)! Anyway, perhaps you are right, but that seems to imply that you think a "complex" character is simply one with more abilities and higher numbers written down on the character sheet. Surely, it is better to consider the "complex"...

I can't see it causing any serious problems, principally because (in a campaign that allows Feats) the players could simply choose to not take ability score increases and only take feats. The PCs will look a bit different (on average) as they'll have less high stats, and they'll have some...

Depends what you mean by "nature-based", but part of the reason is that "nature-based" items tend to rot, evaporate, hatch, walk away, or get eaten. So, don't make sense to be found in a 1,000 year old ruin, and the like.

True. Unless they land in some sort of Molten Death or the like. It's not the falling that kills it's the stopping falling. Especially, if you stop on a spike.

To be honest, the whole idea that the Champion is the "simple fighter" is starting to ring a bit hollow to me. It seems that most of those complaining about the Champion being underwhelming are finding it (either in play or just 'theoretically') too hard to play the subclass effectively. So, the...

I think it's pretty good in play. The important thing to remember is that Remarkable Athlete doesn't just apply to the four Physical skills, but to every STR, DEX, CON check, that doesn't already use your proficiency bonus. So it applies to Initiative, lock picking and trap disarming, breaking...

Because she would be less good at the other two Physical Skills, and she wouldn't get to a bonus to every other non-skill based STR, DEX, or CON check (note that Initiative is a DEX check) and would also have less opportunity for non-Physical Skill Proficiencies.

No. It would just be different. And worse (YMMV).