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The crossbow expert feat actually avoids disadvantage no matter the ranged attack the user employs. Surely it is quite expensive if this is the only bullet in the feat one intends to benefit of, though.

The way I see it, the clerics in game are usually not the priests that preach and tend to the spiritual needs of the flock, but instead crusaders, zealots, the armed hand of the church. Moreover, I don't think it is necessary to always link a stat some may perceive important to a class with...

A popular variant in my game table is to allow savage attacks to work with any melee attack, not just melee weapons. Its just throwing a bone for a race that is otherwise almost completely non-synergic with spellcasters.

It is not simply about muscles. I would expect someone who wants to play some sort of grappler to go for one of the fighting classes. Monks, fighters and the sort are where I would expect some rules support for grappling and shoving. Instead, the fantasy-medieval Ziggy Stardust is "the guy" for...

This apparently breaks the rest not only of the warlock, but also of a lot of people IRL.

This would also reduce the damage potential by a whole d10 (ouch!), now that 1 ki point was spent to stun......

This is a part of the rules I find a little bit sad. I guess the expertise rules were not originally thought of as interacting with this specific part of the game and, while I don't think the double proficiency is a problem, I do find the ability of bards and rogues to be better grapplers than...

I have a quite more liberal approach, but yours seems consistent all around and well placed. The bag of rats is one of those cases I would suspect very infrequent, at least before coming here to the forums and start debating. While I do feel the idea of waking up and doing the silly creature...

Not really.

Blade packs can have nice quirks for assassin types, if you don't mind multiclassing. An rogue assassin can be really well served by the ability to conjure a weapon out of thin air that this pact boon provides. Moreover, from the base warlock chassis they can get some invocations quite useful...

Do you notice that depending on how you rule the whole rest and recovering spell slots because "warlocks" has some impact on other features? I would assume most of the examples of non-concentration long duration spells I can pick from the spell list will be deemed "not problematic". Nonetheless...

Some sort of default array of simple, niche bonus actions that could be available for everybody would go a long way avoiding the boringness of shield-bashing the world. Also, this could devaluate somehow other bonus action uses perceived as abusive/OP.

Thanks for the insight. Anyway, my objective with the question is more an exercise in logic, how do people handle other situations that might be impacted by some proposed rulings regarding the main topic.

I would interpret the same as other posters, that is, the ability probably was intended to be equated to a spell. Said that, compared to open hand in high levels, even the most generous interpretation presented in this thread is lame. Beginning at 17th level, quivering palm deals 10d10 damage...

On a tangent, can you recover a slot during a rest (any suitable to recover that slot) that was spent on a spell with very long duration but that does not require concentration (for example, sequester, extended see invisibility by a multiclass sorcerer, etc)? If you can, should the spell also...

Always the "can" word, opening cans of worms.

It doesn't seem to me changing from a two-hander to a one-hander makes such a enormous difference in offence effectiveness.

Elephants are huge, therefore only wrestle-able if the hero is enlarged.

Just to address this part, actually, it is not extremely rare for an opponent to resist. Surely the advantage is on the fighter side, but as both sides are rolling a d20, the results are rather swingy. In the particular case you just pointed, if the enemy has 10 str & dex and no proficiency in...

In fact, I do the same. I wouldn't call this a house rule, though. To me, this seems to fall on the DM jurisdiction already, as the DM should evaluate the circumstances and apply advantage, disadvantage or none, accordingly.