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Xanathar's Guide to Everything has two options for adjucating AoE on a grid. You should take a look.

Cook/Marsh Expert deniers are a new thing for me...

Even if the official name never changes again, over time the system would have accumulated enough gradual changes to the point of being completely unrecognizable when compared to when it was first released in 2014.

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks!

What is a "tier two setting"?

You are wrong, though. Moldvay's Basic and Mentzer's basic are indeed different.

BECMI compared to B/X obviously.

Sure, what about the rest? Of course the DM could go out of his way to make consumables scarce, but wouldn't make a lot of sense to do that in a place like Waterdeep, for example.

So, infinite rations, healing potions, hirelings, antitoxins, Purple worm venom and such?

D&D combat can be completely stripped of it's narrative and be played as a skirmish mini game on it's own. That's what D&D miniatures was. You could go even further by replacing the minis with faceless, generic tokens.

To be fair, those are Moldvay Basic rules and this thread is about 5e D&D. Nobody uses torches in 5e.

While I do agree that the term is pretentious as hell, I'd like to add that the whole point of Theater of the Mind is that you don't need to know the precise positions of everything in the fight. That's not a bug, it's a feature. In my games, I have come to appreciate the fact that a DM doesn't...

That's what I believe too. I take Gygax's words to the heart when it comes to time.

Vampire the Masquerade initiative system works like this, and the purpose is precisely to allow people with better reaction time (initiative) to counter whatever action the slower characters have declared. Of course, the system also includes the option to "split your dice pool" and perform...

Sure...

Have you checked the Speed Factor option in the DMG?

What you describe is what Angry GM calls "Managing combat like a motherf$@ing dolphin" Good stuff. https://theangrygm.com/manage-combat-like-a-dolphin/

That's why in AD&D, weapon length comes into play when you are charging, but not after you are engaged in close quarters. But yeah, I see the point.

It's almost like someone tried to port the 4e Tarrasque into 5e. Neat.

Now I'm curious how attacking with a longsword (really a misnamed arming sword) could possibly be faster than a knife stab.