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Bwahah. Bwahahah.

Because, plainly, hiding information from the DM is the best way to proceed.

I think it's probably fine, until someone decides to attack the arm. Or wonder why they can't sever a limb on every attack (dissociation warning!).

Not particuarly, no - but he has said some things about it that struck me as off. But that's not my point, and you know it, so ...

That's right; doesn't he know he isn't allowed to say anything that potentially disparages any edition other than 4th Ed? He really should have that straight by now.

Objection, your honor. Move to strike as non-responsive.

ProTip: D&D exists to feed player egos and fulfill adolescent power fantasies.

What's the DM's goal? Are you showing how the PCs, having gone out into the world and gained power, are now far superior to the foes they once fought? If so, use the level 3 hobgoblin stats. Or, are you showing how the PCs, having gone out into the world and gained powr, are now facing the...

It made it so that the orcs that Dirk faced on the way to Vlad also required an 11+ to hit, but when those same orcs* try to stop him now, he can steamroll right over them Sure, Vlad's still a threat, but that's because Vlad's Dirk's nemesis; if Dirk could steamroll Vlad, it wouldn't look as...

So wizards can freely pick their weapon proficiencies, now? Prove it.

I like items that run the gamut from "kinda basic" to "hella cool with weird powers." I don't see why having one precludes the other.

... unless you've got more important things to learn and therefore do not spend your feats / skill points / build points / whatever you've got on armor proficiency. Or, maybe, you learn to wear light armor effectively. Congrats, you now have the mundane equivalent of the Mage Armor spell /...

I haven't played a wizard in robes* in years, so the force of this argument is lost of me. * Except for formal state occasions, of course.

Honestly, arcane casters being unable to cast in armor always bothered me. If spellcasting in armor, at all, isn't beyond the pale (and the cleric, druid, paladin, bard, etc. say that it isn't), then why is arcane casting in armor so hideously unbalanced that it needs all these special rules...

Depends on how well and often it is used (PC abilities tend to be more ... fidlly? ... then well-written monster abilities, IME), but sure, why not? :D

... But where's the fun in that?

Allow me to rephrase. Replace "average DM" with "representative DM." I speak not to your competence, but to your extremely idiosyncratic approach. Essentially, you are arguing for a MM (etc.) which is useful only to you, and there is so little in common with what you use a MM (or an adventure...

You are so far beyond the horizon of "average DM" that WotC would be mad, MAD, I TELL YOU! to consider essentially any of your input for 5E. (On this issue.)

Because then they can tell you that you aren't really roleplaying, whatever the hell that actually means.

So, Bards are forever relegated to being a multiclass Fighter / Druid / Whatever Prestige Class? Or are we allowed to move on, in some small way?