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Frankly, what? House rules are there to make the game work the way you want it, as suits the campaign. And has always been, Rather the sign of creative minds trying to tell a story. If a lower, in this slightly lower, pace makes for more interaction with the world and less emphasis on...

Definitely. An experienced combatant depends on reading the opponent. And that way makes for more interesting choices, not just a 'gotcha'.

I was thinking to reskin something, and changing it a little, to get a beholderkin. But a tiny, tiny Elder thing would be nice as well. But I think my warlock player will choose the Book instead of the Chains, if I can't change his mind :/

Realistically? Deer. An elk is humongous compared to a reindeer. A grown man cannot ride on a reindeer.

It seems to me that indeed you should leave the campaign and find another that suits your style of play more. For the sake of the whole group, including you. The campaign he wants to run is obviously one where a character is not just the sum of her powers, and probably has a fairly slow pace...

Nevertheless, the communication the DM and the players doesn't seem to have been very good. The reasonable thing would be for you to be informed of this before making a character. As always, most problems are solvable by peacefully talking to each other.

Half-elves and -orcs do have a more conflicted personality. How do they tackle the conflict between their respective peoples. Does either people really embrace them, or are they outcasts from all? Do their own natures manifest in strange ways? Do they play at the prejudices, like a half-orc...

One important thing to discuss in this context is how many encounters there are per short rest and per day. If it is low enough the only thing that changes is the time scale.

No, Greyhawk has never had a good intro book or anything like it. But it is all there, if you wade through a lot of stuff. Let us hope that changes.

I see tieflings hallowing from Iuz' generals, and from the devils called by the Aerdy Hextorites (including Ivid). And perhaps the occasional other, older tiefling. No real old tiefling culture, though. But I want them to be varied. Perhaps the devilish tieflings of Aerdy are more orderly than...

You could always use the bonus action to attack first, then your normal action attack as a shove.

You still have a dexterity bonus in heavy armour. It just does not add to your AC.

Perhaps it is too much to give it for free at level one. Third level sounds better, when I think about it a little bit more. (The same really goes for Thaumaturgy and Prestidigation. Free at higher levels.)

It's pretty dark and grimy. The theme for my current campaign is 'hardboiled' with shades of grey. Realpolitik is the way things are run. Good and evil aren't as strong and obvious as in the realms. You can see that the dynamics is still reminiscent of the days when Law-Neutrality-Chaos was...

As one of two cantrips a druid gets - no. I'm thinking about giving it for free to druids, because of the colour. It won't break the game.

3e NPCs didn't just follow PC creation. There was a bunch of NPC classes to make simpler NPCs as well.

Gnomes. Not all monsters are antagonists. A xorn might well be friendly, or at least helpful, but is definitely a monster.

I think it's likely the printing problems is what does it. Between complaints about PHB binding and MM smudged pages, and the delay of the DMG for printing problems. Seems very probable that they had to withdraw a fair bunch - WotC that is, not Amazon.

Just think about how it would be in real life. If a sound could reasonably be heard, like somebody stepping on a branch in the forest, roll perception. How far away can it be heard? That depends on a lot of things. If the weather is nice it can be heard quite a distance. If it's raining not...

I'll add some more to that list: Animal Friendship (with the right animal - geese are ideal if you ask the Romans) Find Familiar Find Steed Glyph of Warding (though expensive) Continual Flame, as Hand of Flame says, is very good. Perimeter lights are awesome (even if you have 60'...