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Tried this again last night and it worked really well. I am sticking with this for a while.

And rants about how the 5e stealth rules are so broken no one could ever use them.

I have used the following (sometimes heavily modified). U1 The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh U2 Danger at Dunwater B2 The Keep on the Borderlands UK2 The Gauntlet DL1 Dragons of Despair DL2 Dragons of Flame (prepping for this weekend) Forge of Fury Lost Mines of Phandelver That’s all I can...

I do that sometimes as well. However, one group I had would do everything they could to kill fleeing monsters and it actually made some combats longer. 😁

I typically do passive initiative for the monsters. But that probably doesn’t solve the issue sue in the OP.

I should try this again with the group I am with now.

Once I used an initiative variant where each PC and NPC had their names written on blank playing cards. Then during combat the cards where shuffled and play went in order the cards were drawn. It was quick, easy, and I loved it. However the players hated not knowing the order ahead of time.

Just curious, why is getting this into an official errata so important to you? Are people you playing with having heated arguments about this?

1e DMG, page 10, last paragraph.

I have started using this more over the last couple years. I prefer it to a grid but my best dry erase maps are gridded.

Nope. Players are encouraged to create those backstories themselves, if they are interested.

The gods in my game aren’t well defined and typically don’t play much of a role in the meta plot. I allow any god from any D&D or real world pantheon in my games. If two gods come up that seem somewhat similar then I just say maybe they are different names for the same being and it typically...

Yep and I regularly do. 2e works pretty well too (I am running some Spelljammer stuff now).

Not surprised by these numbers. 5e is a fantastic game. For me it is the game I wanted to be playing back in the 80s when I was playing BX and 1e. I really enjoyed BX and 1e but 5e blows them out of the water for me.

Even if using the prof dice variant I would still probably just take half of the fixed prof bonus to keep thing simpler, but rolling and dividing by two would work also.

I also chucked the encounter building/XP guidelines. I just eye encounters as close enough and let the players decide on how to handle the encounters. I typically do session leveling. For my new campaign I have tweaked it so now I give out a certain amount of XP per session. The XP is strictly...

Nope. I love the rogue.

I typically stick with RAW for the most part when I play with my adult group. When I play with the kids then I just do whatever I want.

Ditto

Do other spells that require an attack roll specify seeing the target?