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Honestly my favorite 'PC Wizard' statblock is the Legendary Archmage from Monster Manual Expanded 3. I think it's a good compromise between usability (It has a post-MPMM style spell list) and not having completely arbitrary At-Will powers.

Honestly even if torches are seldom used I've never had trouble making darkness matter in my 5E Game... unless there was a Twilight Cleric in the party.

Yeah I would probably just adopt a version of my Spelljammer ship rules. Slow the turns down so that they take place over several minutes to account for how slow aquatic ships are by comparison.

I'm not sure why the latter part couldn't work, the pirate campaign, even in 5E.

Max level fighters saving on a 2 across the board in RC was nuts. You got a 95% chance of success. Even the 4E Fighter ain't that tough.

But why tho? This is where you're losing me. Mechanical consistency is useful, but not at the expense of playability. Representing an NPC the same way as you would a PC of the same level leads to multi-page statistics full of mostly-useless information that isn't going to even be relevant when...

I only get this reference because I have been watching Daddy Rolled a 1.

What they're saying sounds sensible enough but I'm always gonna be skeptical until I see results.

Armpit Fiend Eldritch Qanon Melf's Minute Mediators Pass Without Face Tenser's Fleeing Disk (it runs from you after you summon it)

I don't even know how to respond to this. We have rules so that the game is 'fair' (for whatever difficulty the players and DM agree to) and it's not just a playground game of 'nuh-uh, my monster is totally immune to your spell!' You think the rules should reflect the fiction? Sure, I agree to...

Bows might since a full draw puts more energy into the arrow than a partial draw.

It's not a contradiction. I'm saying that in-universe there's no difference; the difference only exists in the game mechanics. In universe there's no such thing as a spell called Arcane Burst, it's just an abstraction that this the Archmage did (or failed to do on a miss) that much damage with...

There is no narrative distinction! The whole point is that there's no such thing as an NPC or PC in-universe. Why do some NPCs have things PC rules don't replicate? Because it's convenient for gameplay. The DM can justify it through the narrative however they want, or change the NPC stats if...

Okay, that is certainly one way of interpreting what I said. Not a way I'd consider good faith, but a way, certainly.

Genetic mutation, quirk of magic, chosen by a very picky goddess, made a dumb deal with a demon that nobody else was stupid enough to make...

It's a neat teaching aid but I think it would be a pain in the butt to maintain for a long term game, as a physical product anyway. It would be neat to have something like this as a 'beginners mode' version of the Character sheet on D&D Beyond.

I'd probably use an existing stat block like the Bard, Legendary from Monster Manual Expanded 3 (CR 8, but its got low HP and I can knock off the Legendary Actions and it'll be fine.) Or Edgin Darvis from Honor Among Thieves (CR 5) Or just make one myself:

Just to backtrack for a moment: a proposed solution to the Multiclassing issue might be to raise the requirements. For starters, each class gets two ASIs like Paladin, Monk, and Ranger: one at 15 and one at 13. Each additional class you add causes these numbers to increase by +1 (maybe +2? Not...

Somewhere between the A5E Turnpike and the Daggerheart Causeway.

I mean I'd wager there are Paladin players who don't like the nerf to Smite.