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Sure, a wizard can go from apprentice to creating a pocket dimension (rope trick) in a few adventuring days time, but lets hamstring the criminal background.

I have a list of options players can select when their character would die, each usable once per party per campaign. They range from being simply knocked out until the next short rest to losing a limb/eye to dying in a blaze of glory (gaining the immediate benefit of a long rest, inspiration...

This was largely my experience as well. I ran 1st edition modules in 5E. I adjusted the math early on, as many critters in the 1st monster manual were pillow fisted HP blobs (unfortunately repeated in 5E), but afterwards it was D&D as usual for our group, who almost all started with 2nd edition...

Sure. So long as non casters can duplicate the effect of any 1st/2nd level spell proficiency modifier times per day, fluffed how they see fit.

In as far as they can be ranked, Strength is an inferior stat to Dexterity in 5E, as Dex covers offense, defense, initiative, stealth, etc. A 14 dex is no small investment in point buy, then you need to buy your actual attacking stat (and Con, and Cha if you want to intimidate). Evasion is Dex...

The same argument applies to bladesingers, valor bards, and any of the other caster classes that get given 2nd attack. The rogue class as a whole is weak. The power is offset by having to waste stat points in both strength and dex.

Full casters get wish and similar spells. I've run all rogues getting a 2nd attack at level 6 for years. It's fine. It just moves their damage from poor to pretty good.

I mean... probably on the PHB side? WOTC writes rules with less care than my cat. Its like buying the Eberron guide when all you really care about is the Artifier or the SCAG when someone only wants the 2 pages of blade cantrips

They're $36.99 at Miniature Market for what its worth.

If it's so easy, maybe you should publish it! I think, however, that you'll find that the crowd clamoring for this sort of minutia will reach no consensus on what they actually want. There are so many variables that chasing them is a fool's errand. Its the very definition of an unpleasable...

Surely you'll have an easy to use chart of these common economic factors that passes everyone's v-tude demands and takes into account the variable amount of trickle down magical side effects in everyone's individual campaign? Right?

So the price of wheat, gold, etc is a universal constant?

Its. Magic. The god of trade sets the price. There we go. Giving it in terms of ounces doesn't solve anything. Because then you need to know all that ruby dust grinding crap. And players are then trying to weasel out of paying the intended cost by using cruddy rubies. So now you need to know...

Then you're catering to an unpleasable fan base who will just demand more and more minutia when 95% of the rest of the players will just shrug, mark off the GP value of the component and move on with their lives. You give a mouse a cookie then he'll want to know in exacting details how much...

I like how the 50GP of ruby dust apparently requires pages of minutia on gem grinding techniques and gem clarity grading, but no second thought was given to how the value was determined on the 100gp pearl slurped down with a bowl of wine and owl feathers for the past 50 years.

I think a variation of Hanlon's Razor applies. Never attribute to designer intent that which can be adequately explained by WOTC's sloppy writing. Perkins would probably defend it anyways, because they simply cant admit that they frankly DGAF about writing clear rules because people buy them...

Seems this would apply to nonsense like the warcaster "allies trigger opportunity attacks that I use to buff/heal".

Do you roll Persuade checks for NPCs to one another? Or did you just decide two NPCs are allies? Is your bad guy leveled? You didn't roll their attacks through all the adventures to level up. There's no craft checks to build a dungeon, or for whether or not the bad guy didn't die of a genetic...

Agreed 100% on animated is the way to go. WOTC could make a Baldurs Gate 3 show and that has a pretty huge audience at this pointt. They already have the voice actors cast.

Yeah, there are a few outliers with the martials, but overall Artificer is in line for levels 1-2. The wizard has an extra cantrip and one extra spell slot through Arcane Recovery at 1st, the artificer more HP, better armor and their tinkering which is on par with a cantrip IMO. 2nd level the...