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I'm amazed that I've read through this entire thread, and nobody has made the obvious "Bard" joke¹. More seriously... "Leader" is too ambiguous a term. In many parties, there will be someone who "leads" in social aspects - the party face, if you will - and there may be someone who "leads" in...

Hmm. You know... rather than using the EK as a base, I might actually like a version based on the Arcane Trickster - at least, a rogue subclass using that spell progression, a slightly different spell list and a few tweaks. Maybe something fun with "X times per day, when you hit a target and...

So, I think what @Son of the Serpent is talking about is the mechanical simplicity and homogeneity. This is actually one of my favourite parts of 5e, but I can see why some people can dislike it. As an example, absolutely every d20 roll in 5e is either an Ability Check, Attack Roll or Saving...

If you ever do a Monk... claws out, obviously :-)

Something I do - especially at the start of the game, or with a new group - is explicitly ask for feedback. Ask the party for things that they didn't feel worked, or for things they did. Remember to ask for both, though :)

(Now, if only they included the Head of Vecna)

You know, Vecna as a main villain really isn't a bad concept. His name is memorable, he's definitely a reasonable choice for a powerful enemy who needs to be stopped. The whole 'Evil undead mastermind' trope is a comfortable fit for this sort of film. What's more, you have the Eye of Vecna, a...

The barbarian should look like a cat that's got into a lot of fights (and won) - smug, scarred and ragged-eared. (Edited to add: Also, this is lovely art :-) Thanks for sharing it with us!)

Using Cunning Action: Aim as a counter to the Frightened condition :-D

Depends hugely on what sort of LARP you want. There are a few big games (I'd recommend Profound Decisions' Empire Profound Decisions - Home Page personally), and many smaller ones.

A thing I've used was a claustrophobic dark cavern, filled with broken boxes and cages. Throughout it, there are starving wolves in cages that can be opened remotely. There are multiple Small-sized shooting galleries around the edges and some hides within the room. Pack tactics can be a lovely...

The camera is annoying, still - I really want to be able to change the viewing angle so that I can see what's ahead - but the system looks to be very well implemented. I like how reactions were handled, too. Backed :-D

Hmm. Solemn Recitation would allow you to effectively break the concentration limit. On the other hand, flavour-wise, excluding concentration spells would fit perfectly; they are more complex and you can't just learn them "by rote". It's not clear from your text if you intend the first use of...

Heh. You know when you make a joke, and then realise that the core concept works as a serious take? A while back, I made a joke about a warlock patreon to one of my groups. I really should finish off playtesting the serious version, which is a warlock beholden to a collective of bored minor...

... damnit, you're making me miss Odyssey again (a UK larp I used to crew, in which there were arena battles with stands for people to watch. The setting was - very, very roughly - "Alexander the Great tried to conquer the gods and it went badly for him, and now the gods have forbidden war and...

His tone and approach basically make you want to assume the worst about his motives. Oh, and there's a thing about the creativity of statblocks that I don't think has been discussed. However much we might argue about how well it was done, I don't think anyone will claim that the monsters WotC...

It's a nice way to use metagame information to add to the feel. A classic example - I do larp. There's a common rule (at least in many UK larp systems) that sticking your finger in the air means you're invisible. It's generally avoided unless necessary, since filtering people out is distracting...

There's a difference between the potential for infinite rats and "There are this many rats in this cave system". To a player, I might always say "There's another five rats around this corner", but then again I might not. The potential for more enemies is balanced against the knowledge that I (as...

The rats would mostly avoid the light... unless desperate, or very brave. The party can hold them off with fire for a bit, sure, but that's mostly overnight (at which, expect an attack at *some* point by some braver rats) or brandishing it with torches.

So I have a concept that's too good not to share. I've used versions of this idea a few times, but this variant is for a low level game that's going to be doing a bit of a dungeon crawl. How do you make a party scared of giant rats? Even level 1 characters will often kill them in a single hit...