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I handle it as the book says.

My answer: "Why is that even a question? Play whatever you want!" I don't play with people that would cause problems over something like that, or anything else really.

I have gone back to the old short modules from BECMI. So much better. Feels like a real campaign again vs these "adventure paths."

I gave up on the WotC adventure books after Storm King's Thunder. We had played them all up to that point but I just couldn't take it anymore. They're boring and predictable and basically all follow the same formula. It's probably nothing specific to this book, you're most likely just bored of...

Faulty logic. If you had failed that and had combat, there would have been probably dozens of more rolls. The final roll that killed them or TPKed you would have then been the final roll. All campaigns have a "final" die roll.

This has nothing to do with multiple attacks. Melee combat is dangerous. Swords flinging around is risky no matter how skilled you are, especially when the opponent is equally skilled. It is clearly much safer to be far back with a bow or nothing at all.

A 20th level fighter is assumed to be fighting appropriately skilled foes, so the odds of a fumble don't change.

Really? Wow, thanks for that explanation.

I've always found this argument to be rather lame. Being in melee and swinging swords around is obviously going to lead to more mishaps than standing in the back not swinging a sword.

BECMI Or you don't know what you're talking about.

Has anyone ever confused these?

I've heard that too, but it's complete nonsense. They absolutely do expect magic items. There's even a chart somewhere, in DMG I think, that shows how many they expect PCs to have got by tier.

Bounded accuracy = shrinking the number range so weak monsters stay viable longer and rules breaking happens a bit less. In other words, WOTC's way of "fixing" D&D.

Once, a friend and I were making characters for a one shot con game. He flipped out when I put a 13 in my prime stat. "I won't play with you if you do that!"

Hardly anyone actually rolls anymore, and if they do, they keep rerolling until they get what they want. Anytime I suggest rolling, people just stare like I'm insane. Then bitch when I don't let them reroll 1s or reroll all 6 or whatever. It's shameful. It is most definitely less lethal than...

You don't need an exhaustive list, just go with what seems reasonable that you could do with just one hand.

If Spider Climbing specifics it leaves your hands free and Potion of Climbing doesn't....

You still have to climb. It doesn't turn you into Spiderman.

There are at least a couple old TSR era modules for a solo player. Actual solo, no sidekicks or hirelings. Dungeon crawls are best at low levels, so don't skip levels. Start at 1st level especially if the player is going to have to control multiple sidekicks and hirelings. Otherwise you don't...

They've never had a problem randomly changing things before without rebooting.