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If I ever go back to 5e I may tinker with a 3d6 system. Crits IME are the driving force of most encounters and made combat crazy "swingy".

I would play CoC with a good GM but D&D with no battles? Nope.

No. I play D&D to replicate classic action Swords and Sorcery. I like a good bit of RP but at heart I'm in it for the action.

Sure in 5e that is totally true. But I didn't think this was a 5e specific thread and I referred to a classic LG paladin.

I find its hard for modern "moral relativists" to play a righteous holy warrior in a world of elemental evil and chaos. I have players who think a LG Paladin should be able to cut corners a lot and the ends justify the means, adventure with unsavory types, etc. They want the powers but not the...

Yep. I quit really spending time on stuff outside the immediate adventure for that reason, they just don't care. We started a new backup campaign and one of the players still hasn't named his PC after a 6 hour session. Its just not that important to him. Granted that is a bit too far for me...

Yep. I am working steadily towards ending the tyranny of the grid and doing everything with tape measures, real LOS, and actual space on the map. And 1" = 3' will probably be part of that.

If I ever run 5e again I would probably use those.

In my playing of older editions, or S&W I'm running now, major injuries are almost always healed via spells over a couple days of rest and spell casting. I'm not sure I ever saw a PC heal of major HP loss via rest unless it was in a downtime deal after they cleaned out the dungeon.

I should say when I say core I mean the basic d20 system and mechanic. Even 3.5 with the 3 core books is more than I want, but yes, not allowing all the endless expansions does make it better.

Not my experience. I am not sure if any foes they fought in any of the 5e stuff I ran, ToD and OotA, along with some stand alone stuff, lasted more than 3 rounds. Demogorgon lasted 3 against a 10-11th level party. And I gave him max HP. But 5e is very swingy due to crits being IMO vastly...

As a DM 3.5 made me think of finding a new hobby. The core was fine but all the crap tacked on via splats and expansions made the game crazy unwieldy and honestly more like work than fun to run for me. When I bought a book written just to clarify all the rules in other books I realized this...

We just made it into a running joke that a good nights rest cures cancer and people in this world all heal like Wolverine. I quit running 5e but in our backup game we still play it. So every time we get a rest in you hear "well that huge neck tumor seems to have went down." or "well looks...

Which is surprising since we all banded together to block one of the brothers from adding his stepson to the group with no warning. Maybe we should have taken Timmy and kicked his uncle out? Alas no do overs.

IME those who can't remember to use an ability on a regular basis are the same ones that put bare minimum effort into playing, always need help to level up their PC, and really only show up since its something to do on Wed night and everyone else is playing. Eventually they get nudged enough by...

Yeah, IMG the other players half the time are exasperatedly telling the one player to remember his abilities, if not pretty much running his PC for him. But when they go, "Well 3 rounds ago Joe's PC, who unlike Joe has to be paying attention, would have remembered to add in his bonus damage so...

I have too much to keep track of to keep track of when a player should use his abilities. If you are playing pay attention and run your PC.

I know what you mean. I try to add in bits of Greyhawk lore, different human ethnic groups, cultures, etc. F's giving by my players....zero. My table loves playing D&D but they aren't trying to be actors or examine some idea. They want to tell bad jokes, drink some whiskey, kick in doors...

DC Heroes 1e/2e was IMO the best licensed super heroes game I've ever played. MSH was good and I played a lot of it, but DC did pretty much everything better.

I've realized that IME, and YMMV, none of the piles of fiddly bits did anything to make the gameday play experience better and usually made it worse. So I quit running "heavy systems" and went to something that was mostly based around giving us a looser framework for players and referee to work...