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Which isn't too bad depending on what they will be facing. Several hirelings standing around loading guns for a PC sounds great until a single fireball wipes them all out, or a flock? of harpies target them. You'll need to talk to your players about how you want to handle crew, in many ways the...

The main goal of the MM art isn't to set "default" lore, it's about DM inspiration. It's obviously subjective but when the art speaks to you, you want to include that monster in your games and it inspires creativity. Personally I find the Marilith art pretty meh, but as an example the male Hag...

One option to make them unique is to have them use Dex saves instead of attack rolls. This already kind of helps deal with armour/shield though since they don't help at all. You do have to imagine Dex saves less as a creature dodging and more as a general quickness/shiftiness that makes high dex...

Shouldn't that mean you can't assume that it is male?

The 2e MM entry is "Medusa, Maedar" and starts by saying "Maedar are male counterparts to medusae" so why wouldn't we include them.

It was in the MM, and as others have shown there are male versions of everything you listed in the current MM.

Medusa have had male counterpart called a Maedar at least as far back as 2e, and I'm pretty sure it was announced that male Hags would be something we will see as well.

Yeah a lot of it can and already is just improv. I've had AoE cold damage turn water into ice which created an ice hazard that you could fall on long before BG3 or even DOS did that stuff. Setting oil/grease on fire has been a staple as far back as I can remember, though ironically in this new...

It's not universal but a common part of a Tiefling's lore is that one of your ancestors DID, so demons and devils being F-able is at least somewhat important lore wise.

A bit of a weird idea but how about tying XP to gold spent as part of Lifestyle Expenses with maybe a factor of say 10 XP per gold spent. So in order to actually actualize the XP you have to spend money and the more pampered the lifestyle the faster it is to get that XP. So to actualize 1000XP...

I will say that I get the impression that a lot of people who complain about resting would really benefit from the Epic Heroism resting variant but ignore it. It's a shame they didn't present the resting variants as being pick and choose the SR resting time and LR resting time independently...

Sounds horrible to me, but hey to each their own

So at session 0 you present 300+ homebrew options to the players?

But you aren't suggesting that the DM needs to find or make a 3rd party class/subclass/feat for every single unique ability that ever comes up in their games right? In which case the point stands that there will be some things not available to PCs.

In fiction any PC can become a Lich, but if by becoming a Lich that PC becomes an NPC and the player has to roll up a new character then you the player can't be a Lich and the claim that you can learn/do anything an NPC can do is false, you the player can't play as a Lich. Or if it takes 10...

Which is just pretending that there aren't PC vs NPC abilities when in fact there are. Like I can say any creature with LAs was gifted those abilities by the God of Legendary Actions who goes around arbitrarily giving out the Boon of Legendary Actions and all the PCs have to do is somehow...

You can make it a standard reaction keep the 1/Reaction a turn limit and just word it as "Until the start of the MM next turn whenever a creature in melee range damages MM, MM makes a gore attack against the attacking creature" That said after the first attack you should definitely warn the...

If the cost to learn a skill is to effectively retire as an adventurer then it results in the same thing, an NPC only ability.

You could easily tie spending gold into the DMG '14 Renown system, and since one of the suggested benefits of Renown is access to magic items, in a world without magic shops and random rewards this might be the best/only way to get specific items. Similarly there's a Piety system from the...

So overall one thing to note is that nobody wants to die, and continuing a fight risks death so even when winning a fight it can make sense for enemies tactically retreat and/or let the PCs run away without following them because it's simply risk then continuing to fight. So with speaking...