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So, 55% of the PCs (assuming one PC per player, per campaign) have taken Fighter levels. That hardly screams utter failure of game design to me.

Do they? a) In-play, (for most people) there are usually only 3-6 other PCs present. So, the fact that some infinite variety of other PCs could be better than your PC at something is utterly irrelevant unless they are there, right now, in the party. Chances are, that if you make a character...

A character is more than a class. A character is also Ability Scores, and a Background, and a Race, (and Feats, if you are using those), and what-the-player-does-in-play. Using all those tools it is possible to have a fighter PC who is perfectly able to participate in exploration and social...

That's exactly what the devil wants you to believe. You can't be tempted, unless the deal is tempting.

A pacifist character doesn't mean a character who is no good at or incapable of fighting. It's a character who chooses not to fight. So, I think a fighter class character who happens to have a knowledge background (like Sage), knowledge skill selections and ability scores that are optimised...

A good text game would be absolutely brilliant!

Doesn't seem that tricky to me. If you are wanting a fantasy/magic version of Jones Sr. some sort of quite bookish Wizard would seem the obvious choice, (probably with interesting rather than effective spell selections). If you wanted a non-magical version of Jones Sr., then a Fighter (with...

Sure, but I can't recommend rules I haven't read.

Oh, I was just restricting myself to the proper rules (i.e. the core rulebooks). I don't have ToA so can't comment on that background.

I would go with Fighter with the Battle-master Archetype. Take some of the tricksier Battle-master manoeuvres; Sweeping Attack, Lunging Attack, Trip Attack all seem to go well with a whip. Take the Sage background. Race doesn't matter too much, but I'd probably take Variant Human as your race...

Yes, published settings should be clear about what is endemic to the setting (or at least to the parts / continents detailed in the canon setting). But, there should be nothing limiting anachronistic PCs. For example, being the only Dragonborn in a world where such creatures are extinct / never...

We track things that are scarce. So, exactly what that is depends on the context and changes a bit from Adventure to Adventure. Usually consumable magical items (i.e. potions, charges) are almost always tracked. High denomination money is tracked; where "high" is a bit dependent on the wealth of...

On the other hand, "escaping and regaining your stuff and kicking arse" is Fun and Winning. However, it does require the players (and DM) to have the maturity and, perhaps, experience to realise that this is an Adventure Opportunity rather than seeing it as a kind-of-slow-motion-TPK. Also...

Agree. It was realistic and, I think, a good DM decision to have the kobolds attempt to barricade the PCs in. However, it was a DM mistake to make the kobolds' barricade attempt effective.

Agree. Also, in this case, for what it is worth, I would have tried to encourage the players to think of strategies to break down the kobold barricade and fight their way out. It seems like the players are trying to run away to avoid a TPK (which is very sensible). So, as DM while you don't...

I don't really see what the problem is. Sure, perhaps only certain races are endemic on some worlds. However, we are talking about fantasy worlds with the possibility of planar travel, potentially a multi-verse, etc. So, there is nothing wrong with individual PCs or NPCs being of the Wrong...

Exactly. This is what is meant by patronage in a polytheistic religion. It's very common, and it doesn't mean that you exclusively worship only one god. That would be crazy.

Generally, I use theatre of the mind, so, the target is either in some range category or it's not. Thus it doesn't really come up as an issue. If I really, really wanted to know the linear distance between two notional points, I would just calculate it via trig. It's not tricky. I would ignore...

It's pretty normal in polytheistic religions that an individual has a special relationship with one or several gods (whether that is called a patron or something else) and that relationship can derive from all sorts of reasons, either choice or profession or family or astrology, etc. I don't...

I agree that it is brilliant Feat. One of my favourites. However, I disagree with your cantrip/spell assessments. In my experience, it doesn't really matter a great deal what spells/cantrips you select with this. The point is more that whatever spell/cantrips you select, you (i.e. the...