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You could certainly use the alternate stat rules for some athletics checks but if you aren't prepared in put some investment in strength or expertise in athletics then I'm not sure that you should be rewarded. I still struggle with the rather sterile builds you get with points buy. Maybe 4 +...

It's almost like different abilities help out in different scenarios, so that the absence of one in a particular group doesn't automatically mean the end of the adventure? This is how the game is supposed to work, but strength can still often be very useful, blocking doors with furniture...

Opening doors and moving obstacles are pretty fundamental to dungeon exploration. Perception and Stealth are probably more useful more often but wasting spells or alerting the entire dungeon because nobody is strong enough to force a door is very depressing.

I thought that Level Up allowing pushing , disarming etc to inflict 1 point of damage plus strength bonus gave a nice damage boost to strength builds.

There is certainly design space for a subclass or a feat that does extra sneak dice. There are already subclasses and feats that allow it in different circumstances and agonising blast is probably more unbalanced at higher levels than a couple of extra dice on sneak. I'm not sure it needs to...

An item that inflicts poison damage once per round would work. I have house-ruled that extra damage from items is not doubled on a crit and I stand by that as a sensible thing, however, an item that doubles poison damage inflicted by a cunning strike or an item that adds extra sneak damage...

I admit, I just build encounters to match the story but I will bung in a few minions to give different classes something to chew on.

Different encounter builds are intended to play to different class strengths. If one class dominated every encounter or solved every problem then you would have an overpowered class sucking the fun away from everyone else.

Yes and Elrond's healing ability meant half elves could be clerics and multiclass clerics. I'm not talking about actual Tolkien lore, I'm talking about the inspiration that 1e DnD took from Tolkien lore. Humans AND half elves could be rangers (later extended to elves in Unearthed Arcana).

Yeah but if you look at 1e DnD, half elves lived about as long as Nuemorians. Remember, they didn't lift everything straight out of Tolkien but they took inspiration. Rangers were able to use crystal balls for no reason other than Tolkien but only the cultural divisions (wood, high, gray) and...

Yes. I think that, coming from 1e, it's important to recognise that the pigeon-holing was based off literary and movie references that were available in the seventies. Aragorn is a half-elf so half-elves could be rangers etc. In the last 50 years, so many more references have popped up to...

I think this sums up the arguments perfectly. "I want MY version to be the core. YOUR version can be the sidebar." My version is currently the core and so the rules would only require one optional sidebar covering all small characters to implement what you want. Your version requires...

Lol yeah. There is one Living Greyhawk adventure where the characters end up as stuffed toy animals at a child's tea party. You can have a lot of fun with craziness like that.

Different campaigns have different styles. We just aren't a group of optimimisers and some of the silliness of certain optimised builds stand out and are worthy of mockery to us. If you can't please all of the people all of the time, it's fine to have a baseline and then options to go in...

It's the British sense of humour. We can't respect you unless you can take a massive amount of disrepect. Adapt or cry.

I agree. I feel that extra attack is for fighter/thief builds.

I suppose there are also a couple of feats that provide battlemaster manoeuvres.

My players use a guidance cantrip for +1d4 on most checks so upgrading to +1d6 won't complicate matters but I don't really like the idea formally sub-dividing all the skills to look more like 3e as that looks like it could get messy. I'm going to try it next adventure though. I also like doing...

I agree that expertise doesn't work that well. Level Up has an interesting twist whereby Expertise is available to everyone to one degree or another but you roll Expertise dice instead of your proficiency.

Almost every class I have ever played has at least 3 levels of Rogue. One of our players played a single classed Rogue for the first time last year and was genuinely shocked at how good they were to play. I do agree that there could be more ways to synergise sneak attack in some magic items...