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Well said. Thank you.

There's nothing in the 2E World Builder's Guidebook that strikes me as especially advanced. It's a basic, beginner's book. And there's nothing in it that would benefit from an update to 5e. I'd love to see a world-building guide in the form of articles taking some deep-dives into various topics...

Yes, not just reducing scaling at advanced levels. Reduced damage dice. Give characters a reason to use weapons.

I'd like to see wizard cantrips with signifcantly lower damage but with more interesting effects.

You don't want to hear about my custom lineage haregon-tortle warlock-monk? She's darn kewl!

I focus on the campaign themes and flavor and lose focus on the specific adventure opportunities within the campaign. If I could find published adventures that I liked, I’d be happy as a clam, but I’m hyper-critical of my own and others’ adventure design.

I voted for Type (as in Creature Type).

Depictions of orcs and elves can reflect the way we dehumanize other people. We lose nothing by changing those depictions so that people playing the game don't have to look at reflections of their own dehumanization.

IMO if the player declares that the PC is engaging in sex but does not declare that they’re engaging in unprotected procreative sex, a DM shouldn’t presume it when deciding to resolve the action.

Perhaps the folks from the mirror of life trapping are subject to the death curse and slowly wasting away?

None. Interested in Radiant Citadel, but I’m not currently DMing and there’s more chance that I’ll get to be a player in those adventures than that I’ll run them.

Deleted. Disengaging.

If you've ever had a player use fire bolt on a troll and objected to it on the grounds of metagaming, you might very well have had a disagreement with a player about what the PC knows about trolls. You asked how there can be a disagreement about what falls under PC knowledge. I answered. If you...

Do I know that goblins ride dire wolves as mounts? That dire wolves hunt in packs? Do I know what a dire wolf is? Do I know what a wolf is? Do I know what a dog is? Do I know that red dragons breathe fire? Do I know the dragons have breath weapons? Do I know what a dragon is? Do I know that...

There very easily can be a difference in expectation about what is common knowledge in the fantasy world. What do PCs know about religions, about factions, about monsters and their proclivities, about geography and history, etc.? The disagreement can be based on those mis-matched assumptions.

Remind me to tell you about my Ponies of the Appaloosapocalypse campaign.

Anyone can use the unclassed NPCs from the Monster Manual as-is. And we have all the rules necessary for building PCs. Anyone can use those to stat up NPCs if they want. Do what works for you.

Not as members of the class. It’s very limited; “is considered a member of that class for the purpose of meeting prerequisites for magic items.”

For my part, I'd rather play in a game in which I could decide that I overheard a tavern story than one in which I had to roll knowledge checks for monster trivia. To each their own!

I have played a decisive and opinionated character and played through adventures with which I was somewhat familiar. I often recused myself from group decisions, even though it was absolutely out of character. I would consider that recusal to be metagaming (although it might not meet the...