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I'd say you are being overly generous if you allowing the party to traverse spiderwebs without penalty. Favored terrain doesn't grant webwalk (party wide no less); similarly a mountainous ranger isn't granted a climb speed, nor a coastal ranger a swimspeed. It's one thing for knowledge of...

The question asked wasn't "what is RAW?". It was "how do you play", with an implied "and why?".

I max out the hit point dice. It's going to get outpaced by the 4xlevel eventually anyway (usually by level 5 or 6), and it makes it less likely I'll one shot it. Beastmaster already has enough quality of life issues. Of course, for "named" or elite npcs I tend to max out their hit point dice...

Skills: Animal Handling - Remove it. Survival is enough. Maybe a bit of Nature for remembering how to deal with weird beasts No. Tracking, foraging, and not dying of exposure have nothing to do with controlling/training/domestication of an animal... every farmer is not a ranger and vice versa...

Couple of questions for the OP: Are you making any effort to tank? Are you just running around Hulk Smiting everything? You seem to be the only party member in heavy (and possibly even medium) armor. Did you ask the other players permission before playing a sentient #FailedStealthCheck? If...

The battlemaster fighter is indeed a "nod" to one of the 3 builds. What (some) people want is not an exact copy; it is merely more than a mere "nod" and for all three builds. They want this because they have existing characters and campaigns they want to port from 4e to 5e. They want this to be...

There are solid grounds to state the D&D team did worse than merely ignore demand for a 5e warlord. Mearls explicitly stated there would be 5e support for the 4e style warlord builds; then proceeded to backtrack over a period of months; before eventually refusing to comment further on the...

The Tactician fighting style, as listed, is overpowered; perhaps instead it could allow the warlord to grant advantage (or a bless style d4) to a single ally as a bonus action. The desperate charge feature seems grossly overpowered; instead of granting an attack action, limit it to a bonus...

Awesome quest reward! Shouldn't affect balance any more than a magic item; mechanically the boon is essentially a charge-based wand (1 charge).

A nice start; the fluff is solid and I don't see anything obviously broken. A lot of focus on utility, which is fine as the base class has solid combat effectiveness. My only criticism is that Grandmother's and Uncles come in at the same level. Maybe some kind of summon similar to the spirit...

Improved Distracting Cold seems overpowered; particularly so for a level 6 class feature. I would split up the AOE distraction and the attack debuff. Make the attack debuff a channel divinity option; I think it is fine as a limited resource, but not as a always on spam without a save.

I took that number from the 3 quarters concealment baseline requirement to hide. 3/4 = 75% (concealed ) -> 25% (visible)

You have pre-defined in your situation that the creature has not seen beyond the door; which would imply a ruling on the matter has already been made. As I stated I'm my previous post, my ruling would be made based on the underlying fluff of the creature’s blindsight and the physical...

As soon the guard can "see" more than 25% of you, you are detected (under typical circumstances, and in your example). Edit: I can see where some might consider 25% as overly harsh (for losing stealth) and set the threshold at 50%.

Spells need line of effect in addition to line of line of sight. It is possible to have one and not the other.

There does not have to be such a relationship. Once you are at your destination either you in open view of the creature or you are not. Stealth allows you to avoid detection when you neither pass through, nor end in, open view.

The short answer is yes (in the general); however I would make exceptions for certain common sense situations, relative to the nature (fluffwise) of the blindsight in question. When dealing with walls and doors I would take into consideration their thickness, solidity and any clear paths around...

I would counter argue, that there is no relation between the manner of movement (stealth) and the destination (the open view of a creature).

The rules of stealth clearly state that if you are not hidden, any creature that can see you is considered aware of you. It goes on to state the conditions necessary to hide. It further states that once hidden, if you move into open view; you cease to be hidden. It follows, quite directly, that...

Blindsight ignores the concealment granted by the cover (granted in turn, by the rock).