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Assuming we are talking about grid combat and not TotM, the attack must occur while the target is still in the initial square. That's why the Sentinel feat works. Sentinel doesn't "pull back" the target, it drops it's speed to 0 and prevents it from leaving it's square. Opportunity attacks only...

You can. The attack goes off when the target is still on it's initial space. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to attack someone walking straight away from your reach.

Yes.

Too complicated IMHO. I'd really kill for some official options to dramatically increase lethality without adding too much complexity.

Whack a mole is indeed annoying, but forcing the DM to deliberately finish downed PCs is even worse. Best solution: instant death at 0 HP. No appeal.

What you describe is just the regular 4e World Axis cosmology. Lots of sourcebooks available for that edition. Shouldn't be hard to use those with 5e.

That's why I straight up boot any "improvisational play actors" from my tables when I notice them. Also, good thing Cat Molville isn't any kind of D&D authority...

What's the problem with gunpowder, really?

I don't see the problem here? Gunpowder artillery have been in use in Europe since early 14th century and by the Mongols long before that. Besides, hard disagree that D&D should be considered "medieval" at this point.

Brilliantly put, friend. I unironically want to slap this on the front of my DM Screen now.

That was hilarious! Funnily enough, there was a time when I mentioned in Reddit how I couldn't wrap my mind around these groups that spend the whole session shopping and chatting in the tavern... Needles to say that my post was downvoted to oblivion.

This example is from Angry GM, if anyone is interested in knowing more about it.

The three ways of dealing with character advancement are: Regular Experience Points, Milestone Experience points and Advancement Without XP. "Encumbrance" is the variant carry weight rule which disregards the STR requirements for using heavy armor, but imposes a -10ft penalty to your speed when...

Just to be clear, I do agree with you on this one. Exploration would be a lot better if we had a bit more crunch to it. It is indeed, underserved as you put it. And yes, the challenge bypassing abilities are badly designed too imo.

I was specifically referring to the whole "princess are going to be sacrificed but exploration is bad because the party will either arrive with plenty of time to save her or fail to arrive on time and she dies and I would rather have them arrive dramatically in the nick of time because it's...

Having multiple options to deal with the same situation is not a problem at all. In fact, secret doors aren't nearly the sole example of that. We have two ways to deal with encumbrance and heavy armor, three ways to deal with character advancement, three ways to deal with overland travel... I...

This exchange made me realize that the whole issue here is the clash between the "storyteller DM" mindset and the "present a scenario and let the players' choices and dice determine the outcome DM" mindset. It has become abundantly clear that the people here advocating for the non-existence of...

Yes, weather, forced march and diseases are the main source of Exhaustion. I just don't get it why you're taking like it's something super rare to occur. In my current SKT campaign, Exhaustion is always a real threat, except during sessions when the party is hanging out in a civilized area.

Actually, the combat pillar also suffers from this to some extent. If you stick to the CR guidelines for encounter building, it's virtually impossible to kill PCs with anything that isn't at least double Deadly after level 5.

21 years, actually, since 3e came out in 2000.