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If the players are doing all that stuff you don't need any ideas. Just let them spend their coin on their own ideas. :)

IMO it would be nice to do away with subclasses; they just serve to exacerbate the whole character-build side of things (as opposed to character play) that I'd really like to see curtailed. You have your class. That class comes with baked-in abilities acquired either at start or as you level...

Pile it high and watch it die. Give out lots of treasure and magic items, then give us things to spend it on. A magic item economy somewhere between 5e's complete lack there of and 3e's magic marts. Downtime activities. Stronghold or base building. Etc. And make items fragile again such...

That's just it, though: all else shouldn't be equal. If I can turn into a sparrow, that has to come at cost of not being able to do something else; the obvious comparable here is that in a fight I can't hit things as hard or as often as you can.

It's been my stance since forever that the primary market should be college-age and higher, because: --- aiming at that cohort means the game doesn't have to be sanitized or made "family-friendly" --- it can be written to an adult level of comprehension --- by that age, or shortly after, people...

And replace them with... ? There's no way you can have Crouching Tiger-like stealth warriors and knights in shining armour be the same class; and there's very much a place for Crouching Tiger-like stealth warriors.

They do only if one wants balance at every level. That's not a priority for some; I'm fine with the long-term balance of warrior types being boss at low levels and mages becoming boss at high levels. As for Barbarians, I wouldn't miss them were the class to quietly disappear......well, as...

A sad commentary in and of itself.

Playtests and-or pre-publicity etc. starts in 2029. Release at GenCon 2031.

The main reason to separate out the "heroic" (got to come up with a different term for that; not everyone's a hero) game from the legendary game is that there's so many rules and systems that work well at low level or high level yet fall apart when applied to the other. So, split them out to...

Make the default be the harshest setting. Dials should only go easier, not harder, if only to make life easier on the DMs who want to make changes.

To me, the bolded are such basic assumptions they almost don't need to be mentioned. That said, I can do without Fighters having wuxia powers. That's Monk territory, and also their niche.

To the bolded: in the run of play in the game they do, as often they're all we-as-observers have to go by. You can write whatever you want in the 'alignment' space on your character sheet but it's what the character actually does in play that defines its actual alignment - which may or may not...

Thing is, if you can't explain how a fantastical thing works in the fantasy you're hung out to dry if-when someone wants to replicate it, or find a way to prevent it, or find an in-fiction explanation for it. Mid-to-high-level PC: "I've been hit by one too many Dragon breaths over the years...

That you have to train to level up in 1e fairly strongly implies the existence of places where such can be done - martial arts or mercenary training schools, thieves' guilds, mages' guilds or labs, temples, etc. It's explicitly called out for the Monk - they have monasteries where they get...

Not gonna happen. You want to kill someone 20 feet across the room with a sword? Then either you gotta have a 20-foot long sword (and good luck getting that down the twisty hallway!); or have a sword that shoots lightning or death rays now and then; or a sword you can throw. GobHag's ideas...

A very long time ago, back in grade school, I learned (kinda the hard way) to fight my own battles rather than go squealing to the teacher. And that's still how I roll. The only thing I'll report here is spam.

Sure, if you throw your sword at your target. And now you've disarmed yourself. Works for me. :)

Depends whether as a melee type you want to focus on offense or defense. For offense you want Strength and Dexterity; for defense you want both Dex and Con. Int-Wis-Cha are nice-to-have extras but not entirely necessary; and dumping Wisdom makes the character fun to play. :) And yes...

I'd combine some of those to get three completely separate (yet vaguely compatible) games: 1. The primary game (0-10) - it could go open-ended after 10 for those as don't want to go Legendary, but this would be the core game; the other two would be completely optional 2. Legendary levels (11-20...