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Why did the PC enter the pact? And why did the patron? Do either of those questions matter in the campaign? Any warlock in a game I run is going to be affected by the answers.

A lot of people seem to like the Warlock class mechanics a heck of a lot more than the class fantasy of actually playing a Warlock 🙁.

It shows that WotC feels making a book that helps new GMs is more important than making a book experienced GMs might want to give them money for. Buy the TotV and/or A5e DMGs, and skip 5.5.

Anybody can be killed with a single gunshot.

Is there a link to Laserllama's work in general? I really need to look into it.

Can the wizard have a good charisma and proficiency in social skills, or is that too much bleed over?

My previous comment addresses both those concerns to my satisfaction, but again to each their own. I guess I understand now but still disagree.

Intentionality in RPG design is always a good thing IMO, even if I don't personally care for the results.

I expect there will be stuff to steal for my voracious houserule doc in any event.

Nice! Worth a look. Mearls just posted an article on Substack in support of simulation in RPGs, just he's on my happy list at the moment.

Spears (and staffs to a smaller degree) rock in my compilation/homebrew equipment doc for A5e. Lots of cool tricks and respectable numbers.

What's Odyssey?

What does your explanation in the second paragraph have to do with your claim about balance in the first? What kind of balance do you mean?

No, and honestly I would like to see the fighter as literally better at fighting too. But no game compatible with modern D&D will ever do that. This is why I also play and love the OSR.

"Personally I've never felt voting was all that important to the process." "No kidding, Ford." -Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon, Futurama.

...and nothing can stop him.

A rewritten/re-organized 1e and/or B/X and/or BECMI (which several OSR games functionally are) is amazing! I guess I'm just advocating old school gaming.

So maybe don't have dozens of artifact swords and magic rings in your campaigns? Or pass the excess over to allies and henchmen, or give them as kingly gifts to important NPCs you want to impress? There are ways of dealing with this. As to your last comment, that's obviously a matter of...

Fair enough. I respect your opinion on it, but I can't agree. As far as I'm concerned, my preferred 5e already does this to the extent I would want. Furthermore, the explicit class roles move away from the simulation-based play I prefer to a more overtly game-oriented, mechanics over fiction...

Ok. What about the other classes? You have to categorize them all if you're going to use that system.