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I made a slight edit to your quote here to insert a portion you undoubtedly forgot to type out.

I'd give you a third crack at it, but I seriously doubt you could hone this hot mess into anything coherent. Look, if you just want a platform to say weird stuff that doesn't address the things I ask, there is no need to quote my posts. Just say it and spare me the extraneous notifications.

That's longitudinal balance, though, a really crummy form of balance. It was a part of the whole "non-humans are better at low levels and worse at higher levels" schtick that scarred the early editions.

I'm going to give you another opportunity to re-read my post and reply, because you really went off the rails with your response here. Take a moment, compose your thoughts, and then respond. "Could you share a little bit about our planet's history of oppressing/subjugating elves and orcs...

I doubt I'll subscribe. What most excited me about D&D Beyond were the potential game management tools, but the open beta's only real campaign feature was the ability to share notes with your players. Where's the game calendar? Where's the initiative tracker? Where's the encounter builder with...

Could you share a little bit about our planet's history of oppressing/subjugating elves and orcs? Considering our planet's long history of oppression of women has helped inform our stereotypes as to what women can do and achieve, your analogy to race here would be more illuminating if you...

I'ma put "The reality of the game world" on a tee shirt.

You could say that the Strength score is an average of a thousand different factors and variables, but that still doesn't really encapsulate it. At their heart, ability scores are an abstraction of the narratives you can make with your character; the strength score is a gamist way to determine...

Then it would be really easy for you to name a single example of a real-life person's Strength score being observed and quantified.

I'm not sure "They might have thought that limiting female PCs felt true to life" is a particularly robust defense. While I'd love to hear about the scientific studies Gygax, et al, referenced when crafting the 1e rules, I'd prefer to hear about this real-world metric that measures a person's...

In my games, Alignment is something on par with a PC's Personality Traits, Ideal, Bond, and Flaw. It is there to help provide a skeletal framework for informing a PC's roleplay decisions. Is a player not broadly adhering to their listed alignment? I be like, "Why are you so inconsistent, fam?"...

I actually misread your post to be about PCs using giant-sized weapons, not PCs using two-handed weapons in one hand.

If you want access to some of the other patron's spells or features, why not simply ask your DM to make some like-for-like swaps? I would really discourage stacking pact boons, though.

Why jump through all these hoops when you could just use the improvised weapon rules? If a giant's shortsword is vaguely the equivalent of a human greatsword, why not just apply the improvised weapon rules?

Maybe the PCs could harvest either the components or the magical essence of the blade in order to make their own equivalently powered magic weapon.

I do not miss them. They were a part of 1e's Sisyphean goal of using the PC character generation rules as a model for the socioeconomics of the game world. It was a misguided endeavor. Just give us fun and exciting ways for our PCs to create stories and leave the "socioeconomics of the game...

Completely delete the Divine Smite class feature, and rename Improved Divine Smite to be just Divine Smite. Done and done.

I actually like what 4e did with multiclassing (which is one of the few things I like about 4e). That edition handled multiclassing by allowing a PC to use his or her feats to essentially take class features from another class. Something like that would be great for 5e; Someone might spend a...

Ending the spell's duration with "the spell ends" is something that happens before the end of the spell's duration? The spell ending and no longer having an effect is an effect of the spell? I tried. Play your game how you want; I'm not going to entertain this nonsense of yours any further.

The easy way to fix this is to change this rule... "You can also interact with one object or feature of the environment for free, during either your move or your action." ...to this rule... "you can interact with objects or features of the environment for free, during either your move or your...