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The real question is not what to do when you have groups interested in A and bored by B, and another group interested in B and bored by A. The most practical solution to that is to organize your groups so that they are homogenously one type or the other. No, the REAL question is ... what has...

You have to consider the meta-subtextual elements vis-a-vis the a priori "Creation vs Evolution" paradigm of emergent game play. ...am I doing this right?

For my games, the DM creates all the NPCs, either in advance as part of their world building or during emergent play. The significance of that character to the PCs is largely up to the players. The guy guiding your mules is now a trusted companion who gets a share of the treasure? Thumbs up...

Because they are fun. Is any other answer relevant?

I'm going to assume that your only goal is to run a game that everyone will enjoy, and that this is not about trying to modify anyone's behaviour. (That rarely works, and the RPG table is not the place to try.) A strict policy of PHB+1 will solve most of these problems before they start. For...

I use fairly close to RAW, just a little less. Characters don't recover HP after a long rest, and only get back 1/2 their HD after one. It makes other sources of healing more meaningful when "we'll just sleep it off in 8 hours" isn't always a solution. After a trouncing, the party may not be...

except for this line.... and the corpse is under no Compulsion to offer a truthful answer if you are Hostile to it or it recognizes you as an enemy. Yes yes, everyone. I know that. I've read the spell description too. You know that. But is only relevant if the person you are interrogating...

Tell the prisoner - truthfully - that they can answer your questions alive, or they can answer your questions dead. You can get Speak with Dead, and you don't particularly care which option they pick. It should have a salutary effect on their talkativeness.

A world cursed with a crippling omnipresent campaign-wide disease that kills indiscriminately, doesn't respond to conventional disease cure measures, turns disease fearers and disease doubters violently against each other, becomes more dangerous if you attempt to do anything more adventurous...

He could be the Villain in the same way Benedict Cumberbatch was. Purely as a voice.

No. PHB page 195.

I think the problems with this player go far beyond the gaming table. This is not a problem for a DM to solve. A therapist maybe. Or eventually a parole officer.

"Doctors HATE it when you choose this Feat!"

What was the theory?

" but by removing the class system, you no longer have that meaningful choice because there are no restrictions or tradeoffs." I'm not sure that's strictly true. You ALWAYS have an opportunity cost. "You can choose A or you can choose B, but you can never choose both" still provides a...

You are already UNFATHOMABLE DISTANCES OF SPACE AND TIME ahead of the pack when it comes to character motivation and personality. Anything more would be excessive. I will offer one suggestion. Eventually (considering the genre) you will go irretrievably mad or die. And just before you do, you...

If you really want it, just ignore the advantage effect in the optional rule and have Flanking provide a flat +2 bonus. It seems the simplest solution, and avoids any potential cheese that feeds off having Advantage. The problem you will then encounter is PCs running up to monsters/monsters...

In the first (5E) printing it was made explicit in the text that Esmerelda conceals the fact that she has a prosthetic leg, not wanting to reveal a perceived weakness to enemies. I believe that was retconned as ableist in the reprint, but I don't actually own that version. Perhaps someone who...

Honey Heist.

Van Richten isn't on the cover of his own book? Clever! If the monsters can't FIND you, the monsters can't EAT you!