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I meant calling players "children."

I do that in my 2024 game, as well as having every creature roll independently (I am running using Fantasy grounds so it is no more overhead for me). I like chaos on the battlefield and this small change really increases that.

"Going first" is not guaranteed, even in DH.

I don't see how popcorn initiative changes that calculus overmuch.

That's... not a great analogy.

If the PCs have those abilities, they are fighting things that can take it. Or you have done a very poor job as GM.

What makes you say that?

Why roll initiative at all?

Look at the adventures published for 5E. THOSE are the stories they are trying to tell. D&D is not reaching for other fantasy anymore (if it ever did) -- it is its own genre and has been for decades.

These are two different things, but you aren't wrong.

Again, the key is to build in dials so that folks don't have to argue about how deadly or superheroic D&D is -- they just set the dials where they want them, and they are all still playing D&D and engaging in that shared experience and community.

Except that CoC still reissues their most popular modules, right?

Well, for 2024 all it means is literally "can use the 2014 adventures." That's all they ever promised.

UUUGH

This feels like a contradiction. Can you elaborate?

Training costs.

Probably "race." Long ago the term was much more closely analogous to "nationality" before "nations" were a thing.

I am surprised no one else ever tried again -- even with one of the other pillars like Mortal Combat.

Superman as punk because it is about hope is a real thing right now.

It's almost as if that is the definition of "magic."