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Not bad. (Obama face meme here.) I'm really leery of home-brew that messes with AC, HP or ability scores in general - those have a LOT of dependencies and systems keyed off of them - but it looks like you've really done your homework. That said, take that fix idea by the 'CON is overpowered'...

Now that we have the 'people who compulsively read about D&D on the Internet and are self-selectively biased towards being optimizers', how about the rest? I've seen the presentation the two D&D main designers did at a design school, and it turned out that message board users are not...

Eh, the blisteringly intelligent academic that can cure cancer and not realize he's been followed for days and days by a rival organization's spy is a real thing and IMO needs to be reflected in the rules. So does the bouncer has never read a book but can peer through a crowd and instinctively...

That is the old school thing about low level play being the way to teach 'player skill' vs. 'character skill'. Your early characters suffer and die because they aren't a 'character', they are YOU. YOU learn to poke and prod floors for pressure plates in a room where there are suspicious holes...

What's absurd about someone who is going to be in physical combat having above average capabilities in all of the physical demands it places? Trained combatants develop strength, stamina, and agility. All of those things can help you win a fight. Hit harder, wear them down, or don't let them...

Look up a video by Matt Colville on YouTube, specifically the one where he talks about the West Marches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGAC-gBoX9k It has some stuff that doesn't apply to you (i.e. running a large group with rotating DMs), but it has a lot of stuff about the problems you're...

Take all of this with a grain of salt. I LOVE the idea, I just think it feels a bit too un-Cleric like due to the spell choice. I think the spell list goes for more powerful and arcane-feeling Wizard-like spells when a Cleric spell would probably do. That makes it feel a bit jarring...

I think the only 'lack' it has is for Druids, due to the number of animal statistics they can have for shapeshifting and summoning. Notes work pretty well, but a dedicated page for shapeshifting stats would be killer. If I prototype a layout for it, would you be interested in possibly...

Yeah, too often and it becomes a chore. Every once in a while should be enough.

Edit: I found a few bugs with the most recent beta (2.47): I have a Druid with higher DEX than STR. My Scimitar is not calculating properly. It's only giving me my DEX bonus, not proficiency bonus. When I select 'Martial Weapons' proficiency, I get the bonus, so it appears to be a bug...

Also, I don't see the problem. When we have squishy characters, I use weaker monsters, or fewer of them at a time, or we make the game less about combat and more about the problem-solving and scheming that squishy characters often have the best ways to solve. One sub-plot of my current game is...

That is literally the rule for 5E. Page 12: Page 15: Note that is alternately, as in 'always your choice always to make', and not optionally (like Feats or Variant Human) which means 'if the DM allows it'.

Just to let you know, I was laughing AT this post, not WITH it.

Most people barely pass level 10, why spend effort that high? Also, the other things you mention get crazy enough that it's hard to make content. If anything, for all it's flaws, 4E fixed the problems learned from 3E regarding balance at high levels. It just did it in such a way that it didn't...

Negative hit points are awkward and weird, which is why they were eliminated in later redesigns. The idea of death saves is good; it puts the actual roll of death in a player's hands, and removes the weirdness of a stronger insta-death possibility at higher levels due to increased raw damage...

It's polls like these that prove way too many D&D players have no damn social skills. Is it rude for _____ to leave a dinner party early? Is it rude for _____ to leave a baby shower early? Is it rude for _____ to leave a poker game early? It's rude if you leave the party IN A RUDE WAY. It's...

I'd like them if they weren't so damn overpowered. Their stats, skills and abilities all add up to be Mary Sue powerful at low levels. But, when it comes to races, bring anything to my table. One of my early games included a robot (an escapee doctor bot from S3 with a syringe and a murderous...

Well, think of it this way. Hit 1 drops the character unconscious. Does that monster keep attacking the unconscious enemy? In my campaigns, very few will unless they a) are experienced fighting adventurers and have seem how quickly they can revive each other, b) have magic of their own so they...

"Conjurations bring manifestations of objects, creatures, or some form of energy to you (the summoning subschool), actually transport creatures from another plane of existence to your plane (calling), heal (healing), transport creatures or objects over great distances (teleportation), or create...

Yeah, I'm old enough that my tables tend to be married people with kids. If we did have a big climactic battle that sidelined someone the whole session (I wouldn't, but let's just take that as a given and roll with it), and they said they needed to go because they'd rather go home and play with...