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You jest, but there's a page in the DMG just about that. It's the age long argument about dice vs skilled play.

The best way to mitigate those multiple rolls and chance of failure is to provide an adequate and detailed action declaration. The more specific you are with your actions, the easier it is for the DM to adjucate the outcome without having to resort to random chance.

Character death isn't dumb. I have a lot of fun murdering my player's characters and they have fun trying to survive my murderous adventures. It's just not for you and I'll admit it's not the base assumption for most modern D&D games.

Artifices get easy access to bags of holding and armor capable of ignoring stealth penalties. They might not be "overpowered" but they surely can trivialize a lot of things that I consider vital to a satisfactory game. I allowed a player to play one in my current campaign and I regret that greatly.

This edition was clearly designed to keep the access to magic items tightly in the DM's hands. We are better off ignoring the artificer's existance and the half baked crafting rules presented in the DMG and XGE imo.

Thank you

I do. Guess our experiences are just different. I'm going to just shrug and move on.

I don't recall ever saying there wasn't any non white villain.

Not trying to be hyperbolic, I honestly meant what I said. You just happen to not like my opinion. That should be fine in these forums, right?

I'd rather take a few cyanide pills than acknowledge Critical Role and MtG as part of my D&D multiverse and I'm sure I'm not alone in this.

Old white male people are the only group the could reliably be used as villains without provoking a freaking uprising now days.

You can achieve almost all of your goals by just removing death saves altogether.

This is only half true. Lots of DMs now days don't even use XP and people still go for the violent solution just because fighting is fun. Besides, "grinding" for XP isn't really a thing you can reasonably do in a TTRPG.

Get rid of subclasses too.

Everything is fine as an optional rule, I just want to keep those the heck away from my own game.

I just hope they don't make feats baseline in 2024. I feel like feats don't belong into 5e.

WoTC, please hire this guy!

If you are really worried with simulation, you are better off crafting your own stat blocks though. You can give your NPCs how many spellcaster class levels you want and whatever spell list you want.

Fair, but I wish they had the courage to go full 4e style when it comes to monster design. What we have right now is neither here nor there.

So, half-assed and in the fence style. Sounds in line with the 5e design philosophy.