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This statement in one form or another has been repeated ad infinitum. All I can say is glad 5E is working well for you. It isn't for me and my style of play even though I've used every single tactic you've mentioned. Most of those tactics do work to a certain point, then they don't. The players...

re As Vargas says, the powergaming combos are still easier to deal with than 3E/Pathfinder. It's a lot easier to play with the math in 5E than 3E to try to get a feel you like. There's no perfect games. Been playing Star Wars and even that game has some stupid sick power combos that have...

If I gave a substantial amount of role-play experience, I would develop a level equality problem. I and other DMs in my group have tried this over the years with little effect. The people that enjoy role-playing do it the most and the best and those that don't continue to lag behind. So I don't...

Inspiration is a poor mechanic. There are so many ways to gain advantage at higher level that an inspiration doesn't do much the higher level you get. I've had to modify inspiration to make it useful at higher levels. A powergamer still wouldn't care.

True. I view Powergamer/Munchkin as the hardest to deal with for me as a DM. They could give a rip about story or continuity. They want to squeeze every point of damage they can out of the character to see the high numbers to "win the game."

If there not powergaming, I wouldn't consider them a powergamer. My response fits powergamers meaning people that play this game for power. Optimizers are a slightly lower level of min-maxing. I don't know that I would put them in the same category as powergamers. Optimizers tend to optimize a...

I don't see a difference.

You ask for the impossible. I believe this was already attempted in 4E where each power was only slightly differentiated by flavor text from other class abilities, but essentially did the same thing for the same damage. I found that model utterly boring. You have to understand why powergaming...

I'm back. I've taken a nice long break. My friends are willing to finish this module, so I figured I'd give it a go. I have some new ideas for monster and encounter creation. I'll see if they make running the game more enjoyable. I should at least finish the module this time around, but I don't...

Same old 5E I see.

I ended the campaign. I couldn't keep running the game. I find 5E to be a boring game. I could go into detail as to the various reasons, but there's no point. I don't have fun running 5E. I thought I would enjoy the simplicity and concepts like Bounded Accuracy, but at higher levels I don't...

I'm not going to disallow it. I have to agree the Bladesinger is extremely potent. They can get an absolutely insane AC. You can still hammer them with attacks that don't hit AC and do hit point damage. Bladesinger is definitely a strong archetype with ACs that can reach the high 20s and early...

Parties hit them quite easily. You have to decide if you like it the way it is designed or if you want to raise the AC. I've raised the AC on quite a few creatures to slow down the damage done to them and prolong battles. I don't like short battles for certain creatures. 5E monsters can be...

If you're playing the monster as an intelligent creature trying to achieve its desires which often include killing the PCs, it's going to get adversarial. As long as the players don't feel it's the DM as adversary, then it should be fine. You want to make them feel like the monster is their...

I made it a mostly role-playing scenario with one tough battle against Yestrabod.

Unless it is true and the Capn doesn't want to engage with someone that can't admit flaws in a system because a few players use something. Abu's is weak for an 8th level spell. It's more on par with 6th level spells. It's not even debatable. The math of the spell is weak for its level.

Medium armor is also great if you don't have the strength for heavy or the dexterity for light. I find it to be decent upgrade for low to moderate dex and strength caster types like druids or clerics. I've used the Disengage action more than a few times. It's not perfect, but sometimes it fits...

The rules don't support this and I doubt many DMs would allow it. If the rules did support this, then the spell would be quite powerful and worthy of a 9th level spell.

Instead of casting 40d6 meter swarm?

The one problem I've found with the warlock is he very susceptible to dispel magic or counterspell. One of those two spells eliminates far more casting power than it does for other classes. Fortunately, they do have the strongest cantrip. You're pretty much forced to take and use eldritch blast...