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Any artificer who isn’t a gnome. I suppose Dragonborn wizard is still a valid answer, though I played one under the pre-Tasha’s rules.

Argument with the god of prices.

Yes, that would definitely reduce the number of arguments about how much it cost to cast revivify, because no one would argue what a dtagonshard is worth.

For this goal, I think a full-on dice pool system might be better, but that’s a lot more work to convert.

Out of curiosity: have you considered adding an Ability Score die and keeping flat mods for special cases? More dice = more clacky noise = more fun, after all.

Thank you for proving my point.

I disagree; I can see the slippery slope here. Sure, for the revivify spell they could have said “a 15-karat diamond that costs 300 gp”, but we’d still have the same argument (what if I can buy a 15-karat diamond that costs 295gp? Does it still work?”) and still have people asking for more...

My point was: a multiclass wizard/cleric gets the best number. Which makes some sense, it’s just somewhat unexpected.

I never talk trash about Waffle House

No, that would be calling it the Denny's of ttrpgs.

I think this is because you can only apply proficiency from one skill at a time, so you can't add your Arcana and Nature proficiency to the same roll. (This does mean that if you wanted to minimax for Arcana checks, don't play a single-class wizard)

At that level of realism we should also note that wizards and dragons and elves don't exist, and dungeons are usually just one room.

As for speeding up or slowing down - I think it really depends on the players. If tuning out is the main issue, it might help as there's an extra set of actions for everyone to take every round, but if analysis paralysis is an issue this would make it worse.

Or just accept that an ability that's supposed to last one round now lasts 0-2 rounds. If you like more chaos in your battles this is a good thing.

The flip side if this is: whichever stat you pick, you give that one a significant boost in usefulness. Yeah, Dex definitely didn’t need the help but unless the real goal is to make Int more useful you’re just moving the cheese without changing how the maze works. Not that empowering Int is a...

Assuming you’re not using the initiative command in a sheet - I’d say your simplest alternative is a flat d20, or d20+specific initiative mods like Alert (which very few monsters have)

One thing to note here is: perception (the default for initiative) isn’t a regular skill; you gain proficiency according to your class, much like saving throws. You don’t but it instead of other skills. You have to get at least a little creative to use other skills, though I appreciate the option.

And then list the price of those components on another table, adding an extra step and no decision points.

Even if we accept the idea if canon-ness in DnD settings, they aren’t really edition-bound. The canon exists until it’s changed, regardless of rules support. If they wrote a new DL novel during the 4e run, that would be canon. I understand what OP is asking, but that’s just not really how dnd...

It’s more Wild West than any other romanticized period in history, just with knights instead of cowboys (Other than minotaurs)