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OK, I see what you're saying. I personally like the 5e way better, since I don't consider either mechanical character customization or intra-encounter tactics to be all that fun. In my opinion, the important decisions are like "should we fight this monster or not," not "which of my powers should...

Well, yeah, obviously items that don't affect the math don't affect the math. I thought that went without saying.

The point is to make Divine Smite weaker/less abusable.

Unfortunately, it seems like they're solely focusing on adding more player character options (classes, subclasses, spells, feats).

It's the first one, in case anyone is wondering.

As a non-optimizer who can't stand playing with optimizers, I want to understand your point of view better. I'm curious what you mean by this. I've felt like this in a 4e campaign, and it was mostly a DM/player expectation mismatch. Are you just talking about the minutiae of each round of combat...

If we actually made Divine Smite into a spell (with the same casting time and duration as the other smite spells), would that fix it? I might just do that for my next campaign.

I think I've killed 7 5e characters as the DM (including the playtest, not counting Mines of Madness). Let's see if I can remember the circumstances: Balrog Holderheck, Dwarf Fighter. Swarmed by endless trolls while lost in the lower levels of Undermountain and unable to get a long rest for...

Vampires are harmed by direct sunlight. Daylight creates bright light, but it does not conjure a sun.

The SA license specifically requires any derivative works to use the same license (which allows anyone to distribute it, and is therefore incompatible with the DM's Guild license, which says only they can distribute it). It just doesn't work. (also not a lawyer)

I know it's been a while, but I just wanted to add my opinion, since no one has said it yet: We all already know what a dragon looks like. You say "brown dragon," and I get a clear picture in my head. Why do you feel you need art?

Ah, interesting. Sounds cool!

I can only comment on what I would personally want to buy. I personally would not want to buy a naval combat supplement that is so detailed and granular that it distinguishes between different real-world eras and ships. I'm interested in 4 types of ships: Big sailing ship Small sailing ship...

Cleric of nature: Magical priest of a nature god Druid: Member of a specific ancient real-world religion that Gary thought was a good idea to include in Greyhawk for some reason

The Devour Intellect power doesn't make any sense at all. Reducing a character's Int to 0 should represent the complete destruction of their mind. The Intellect Devourer already has a different power that does exactly that. So why even have the Int reduction at all? It should just say "stunned"...

Just a suggestion: I don't want to buy a giant box of giant tiles, as I do not have much table area or storage space. I'd buy a smaller box of fewer, smaller tiles (or the same size box of more, smaller tiles, of multiple terrain types).

So how do you figure out how many people are in a town?

My point is that the concept of "ability damage" does not exist in the 5e rules. Sure, some exceptional effects may reduce an ability score for a specified duration (the feeblemind spell is another example), but there's no need to have a core rule about it.

As far as I know, inflicting ability damage is impossible per the base rules. It just doesn't exist in 5e.