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The argument against Tucker's Kolbolds is "if your players don't like traps, they're not going to like manned traps." The original idea is very old-school in its attitude. It's about punishing the pcs for being too heroic and not cautious enough. Is that your goal? Then go for it. Is that...

I think the differences in timescale are a factor here; ttrpg design is only 50 years old. I would think we’ve learned things in that time. Painting, as an art, is hundreds of thousands of years old. We probably haven’t had the same pace of discovery in that field in the past few decades...

Species-based subclasses could work if you first universalize the “budget” for subclasses, which they tried but abandoned for 5.5.

My actual favorite is the playtest exhaustion just a blanket -X to all rolls (and dcs) to a max of -10. Simple, affects everyone, easy to track.

I broadly agree; but there's at least a spectrum of ways a game's design might support these kinds of distinctions (or not). I don't think we're any closer to a consensus on what part of the spectrum is 'better' in any kind of general or objective sense, though many of us know our preferences...

Among people who started with 5e, I'd say this is true for a majority.

My only current game is at the gm's house, although since his wife is a player it's technically also at a player's house (but I only voted for gm's house.) I've done all of the above, plus at cons which is kinda like #3 but I wouldn't describe it that way.

It's in the Core Rulebook, if you can find a copy.

A more direct anti-cheese optional rule would be adding a strength requirement to the belts, so characters who dumped strength can’t use them. IE a belt of hill giant strength might require a (raw, unadjusted) strength of 17, whereas a belt of storm giant strength would require a strength of 20...

Shovel Knight winning both ways!

This does make building around the item (eg dumping strength and expecting the belt to cover the difference) impossible, which I think most of us would agree is a good thing for preventing cheese (barring certain kinds of silly games where munchkining is encouraged) It can have a weird side...

Brother Brutha is the epitome of Neutral Good. Om is chaotic neutral by instinct (much like all gods) but accepts some law is better than none. Old-book Omnians, however, were lawful evil or true neutral, while new-covenant Omnians are annoyingly lawful good.

Draconians and especially kolbolds fill different fantasy niches - kolbolds would be a bad fit for a genneral "dragon-person" race; they're a small race first and craft second. Closer to gnomes but ugly-cute instead of regular-cute. Draconians are closer; they have some evil origin baggage that...

In practice they're the fourth most popular race, behind humans, elves, and tieflings. (If half-elves are counted as a separate race they come in third). So more popular than dwarves or halflings at least.

I never thought about it but - yeah Wegman's would work.

Only if you have a quiet pub that’ll let you take up a large table for four hours. That’s a rarity in the US. Game stores, on the other hand, will usually have tables and either sell you food or be near a pizza place.

Please remove vampire from premises.

Where I have seen this work 9 times out of ten it’s because the pc found a leadership position in universe: like the old-school “getting a keep” but generally much looser in terms of rules. But that does redefine the character by a massive horizontal power boost, so your point stands.

Never tried it myself, but I've seen it happen. You just gotta be willing to put a lot of time into it. For myself, I find I need to set aside about as much time for prep as the session will run; ie a four-hour session will take up to four hours to prep. Most of this time was getting the VTT...

Definitely an improvement. It might be worthwhile to write up a few specific seals for feedback.