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Strictly speaking, I don't know. One dm suggested updating my warlock to allow for multiple pact boons, but only like a sentence's worth of conversation (ie we didn't address the fact that my patron would also need overhauling and said nothing about any other aspect of the game.) My other group...

All three groups are "almost ten years now". Edit: didn't realize you meant "in the exact current makeup" - so two of them are about two years when we started new campaigns and recruited new members.

So my pet theory is that the 4e swordmage only worked as well as it did by accident: because of how 4e is structured, they were required to make a whole spell list for swordmages. They simply could not use the wizard list or the paladin list - all-new list or no class. This meant they needed...

I do really do this - adding magic makes handwaving annoying bits much more palatable.

Apropos of nothing - if I can afford 1,500 gold pieces for full plate armor, I can usually spring for the optional “extra-comfort” enchantment package to magically make sleeping in armor possible without penalties. :P

Other: I see no reason to bother. I don’t actively dislike any of the changes so none of the “concerns” bother me, but there aren’t any positive reasons to spend any money on it.

If you try to do it for more than a week, it'll add up. But a young, fit soldier could do it for a while. So if you wanted to add a "realistic" penalty, you need to have 1/7th of a level of exhaustion. At some point, the granularity needed isn't worth the effort.

People I know who have slept in armor say it's quite doable if not particularly comfortable, but they did it and were still fit enough to fight the next day.

Hit points are all meat points, but some of your hp are indeed meat points. This is well-known and has been discussed for decades. I will note that despite many attempts to do so, no one has come up with a way to break up hit points into meat points, luck points, energy points, divine-favor...

I think where you get into trouble with this is when lists contain things that should obviously be useful (ie tents) but then have no actual rules for that usage (in 5e DnD, there's no such thing as good sleep or bad sleep.) So people are either just rp-ing "of course I want to sleep in a tent...

You could actually go realistic with this - if you wear armor for too long, you gain levels of exhaustion. But your unarmored AC needs to be high enough that armor is a nice bonus rather than a must-have.

I've had some fun with this re: dwarves. Their cities would still be lit, because darkvision is still crappy lighting, though they wouldn't use a lot of light since they need about half as much as a human. If they use torches, they'd spread them out, though do to smoke buildup they'd probably...

Or, if you just want heroic, ignore lighting entirely and let everyone just see stuff. Or assume they figured it out with simple magic, at least. This is another area where 5e's attempts to split the difference between two styles results in a setup that doesn't really work for anyone.

It does mean you can voluntarily shrink the effect by centering it above the ground. I assume my 18 int wizard would be able to do the trigonometry in their head to get the radius they want.

Or the inverse, when a simple spell just solves a range of problems with no further effort (remove curse is the big culprit)

1. Not as an attack, only a a shove 2. Only after you’ve finishedc your regular attacks 3. Why does it require a feat?

Nonsense! Just run five DMPCs!

5e doesn't let you smack people with a shield, either. Like I get the game reason (you have to make people stop attacking at some point) but c'mon

I can't remember where I first saw it, but some game somewhere had you simply pour the potion on the wound itself, which then instantly closed because magic. Much more believable.

Thanks! I did note that the Dragon Sorcerer's AC feature changed, so I wondered if that was part of a larger pattern.