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While politics occurs in the background on my campaigns, it's very rarely front and center. This is mostly due to player preference. Most of my players have little patience for intrigue-style adventures. They also hate being bossed around, and what does one expect a nobleman or king to do when...

See Invisibility is self only, so that only helps a portion of the party. Still, it does help somewhat.

Invisibility 2nd-level illusion Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (an eyelash encased in gum arabic) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour A creature you touch becomes invisible until the spell ends. Anything the target is wearing or carrying is invisible as long as it is...

Um, how do the PCs keep from bumping into each other while invisible? This isn't a case of highly-trained special forces types using nightvision goggles so only they can see. The PCs are invisible to others, and each other. Pretty much guarantees someone will bump into someone, creating noise...

This seems to the be the essential point. A character with one of these feats is not going to take the penalty if the target is difficult to hit. But if the target has a low AC? Sure. Especially since the one player we have who took the Sharpshooter feat tends to want to use this effect when he...

There are several that have a costly focus required, but only three that consume costly components per casting - stoneskin, teleportation circle, and true seeing. Chromatic Orb, 50 gp (Focus)Circle of Death, 500 gp (Focus) Clairvoyance, 100 gp (Focus) Gate, 5,000 gp (Focus) Plane Shift, 250 gp...

Some interesting stuff here that I might steal from my own game. That said, I would never run these guys as written. You've stated that you like them as is, and that's fine. For my table, I'd never use creatures with that many special abilities. I'd be constantly referring to their sheets...

We're testing that also, though we're being very careful. Giving a sorcerer too many metamagic options may be too good. I hope not, as the metamagic options are the only thing that makes the sorcerer fun to me.

I'm not sure I agree that Energy Sub is overpowered (the one we found overpowered was Sculpt Spell). Given the limited number of metamagic options a single sorcerer can take, there's a definite trade-off. That said, we're still testing - the sorcerer is only 5th level - so if it turns out to be...

My group is experimenting with a couple new metamagic options, including Energy Substitution from 3.x. We're hoping this will allow us to address at least some of the points you've made.

I have to disagree on this. Compare hill giants between 1E and 5E: 1E - average hit points = 37, average damage per round = 17 (if all attacks hit) 5E - average hit points = 105, average damage per round = 36 (if all attacks hit) Characters have a lot more hit points, so the extra damage might...

For some time now, my group has used small plastic chips (like those in a Yahtzee or Axis and Allies game). Green means concentration, white means positive effect, red means negative effect. Place a chip under the mini as necessary. It's not perfect, but it does help a bit, especially to remind...

Yeah, an interesting quirk of 5E is that sleep is rarely a good spell to use at the beginning of combat. Most creatures have too many hit points and will be unaffected, or minimally affected. Where sleep can shine is as a finishing move. Take a creature with good hit points, beat it down some...

Yep, PHB page 198, paragraph eight, "If you have temporary hit points and receive more of them, you decide whether to keep the ones you have or to gain the new ones. For example, if a spell grants you 12 temporary hit points when you already have 10, you can have 12 or 10, not 22." So each time...

Yep, the second paragraph on PHB page 78 says "At 1st level, your practice of martial arts gives you mastery of combat styles that use unarmed strikes and monk weapons, which are shortswords and any simple melee weapons that don't have the two-handed or heavy property." (emphasis mine) As...

Oops...you're absolutely right. I copied the text from the OP, assuming he didn't change anything in the spell description. Thanks for the correction.

Mirror Image states: "Each time a creature Targets you with an attack during the spell's Duration, roll a d20 to determine whether the Attack instead Targets one of your duplicates." So let's look at page 194 of the PHB, which defines "Making an Attack" as follows: "Whether you’re striking...

Sure, it's weaker than a standard +1 weapon, but it's not weak. It allows the wielder to inflict magical damage, bypassing a common form of damage resistance. Once per day, it also allows the wielder to make one free attack with the weapon. Timed well, that attack might down the big bad before...

Or...it's a GM who wants to run a particular style of game in which the characters take the campaign's gods seriously. Note: you said players, but nothing said by the OP suggests he wants his players to worship fictional gods. This is, after all, just a game. It's not real life.

This is the key element in leveling. The OP is looking at what happened when his characters went from 1st to 3rd level and extrapolating that rate across 20 levels. Things will slow down noticeably once the characters are 5th level. It occurs to me that this could be a problem with adventure...