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I feel like the sentiment itself is unwarranted TBH. Plenty of nerfs did go through for the new PHB. Action Surge no longer allows spells, Divine Smite eats your bonus action, and busted spells like Forcecage got nerfed. I think the bigger problem was the accidental (?) new OP stuff like Conjure...

If you're willing to go for some classic games based on older rules, you also can't go wrong with the Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced editions and the two Pathfinder games, Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous.

Whatever the players want. Strongholds, spaceships, armies, luxury resorts in fantasy Penzance...

I think 5E levels are fine. I'm playing a campaign converted from Pathfinder and the loot in that is so excessive it's utterly ridiculous.

Possibly! My weapon loadout before the game converted from A5E to D&D kind of locked me into the Hurricane subclass and it kiiind of feels like something that was playtested at lower levels without considering how it scaled at high level.

He does, but even his natural abilities as a martial artist surpass most D&D wizards. Granted it's not entirely a fair comparison given that blowing up the moon was a very early feat in Dragon Ball. I'm just using it as an illustration of how power scaling in D&D could be different. If a high...

Oh hell yeah!

Sure, but if you can snipe a sparrow dead with a longbow from 100 yards then who is more powerful? Or think of it like Goku and Babidi. The former is a very powerful spellcaster but I don't think anyone would describe him as 'stronger' than Goku.

The 4E Monk at least. Man I had a lot of fun with that one. Even the A5E Adept and Laser Llama's Alternate Monk haven't quite had the same level of 'you're martial arts legend, you're Jet Li/Jackie Chan/JeeJa Yanin' as the 4E Monk.

...I don't think that's the point. Magic makes you more powerful than not having magic. But so does being really good at fighting.

It would take a lot to get me to buy into a new edition of D&D at this point so I'd honestly rather they wait as long as possible and let me defer that decision.

Gnomes aren't tough!

Screw 70s Orientalism, but you can pry monks from my cold dead hands.

Honestly it wouldn't surprise me that for Muls they just said 'use the dwarf statistics but your height range is 6 to 7ft.

When I was running a Dark Sun game in 5E I made a big chart of every class and subclass that showed which ones preserved, defiled, or neither. I actually just had Sorcerers not exist as a class except a Defiler in the setting actually invented one rather like the new UA by running experiments...

...I think you're vastly underestimating a level 1 D&D fighter or vastly overestimating your son. Not that the rest of what you said isn't... like obvious? I'm not sure what GobHag is talking about. If you want range at level 1 you take a ranged weapon. Or roll up Link and hope you stay at...

...But how would that even work? Level alone tells you next to nothing.

Just a quick example since I was looking at it earlier: an A5E Marilith doesn't get Reactive so it loses a massive amount of potential damage and damage mitigation.

I mean... in some cases? All of them have better design than 5E14 monsters but in different ways. TOTV and A5E both make monsters more interesting and complex. 5E24 Monsters are generally stronger and easier to run. Both types have their place in encounter design.

Nope. Those aren't even categories.