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And-or at different levels. Long-term balance is just as useful as short-term balance; and all-the-time immediate balance is a fool's errand. Here we disagree; I'd like species to be mostly balanced (using both benefits and penalties), but I don't at all mind certain species being better...

Oh, sure, no problem there. Great stuff. But the rules don't have to be designed around this premise. To a point; but it's only more recently that finding one's desired item(s) has gone from a player-side hope to a player-side expectation. Remember, before 3e players weren't allowed to see...

Agreed. The problem arises when you want there to be days with just one encounter, or maybe a couple, and not have them all be cakewalks for the let's-go-nova PCs.

Can't say I've ever seen anything like this. IME old-school PCs are often laden with magic items...until they fail an AoE save and half of them blow up. It's 5e that strikes me as being the stingy edition when it comes to treasure, though as item destruction isn't a thing in 5e at least you...

As others have said, alignment is a useful shorthand for PC and NPC alike. Where I really like it, though, is with things like consecrated areas in the setting (who gets affected, and how), aligned magic items (who is this sword gonna bite and who will it accept), detection - and obscurement! -...

No, because they're at least vaguely reflected in the fiction as the limiting factor to what a caster can do each day. Metacurrency to me is: --- anything that can change, re-do, or affect a die roll or its result after the result of that roll is known (yes this includes some 5e reaction...

That's a reasonable guess, but it IMO would also be disappointing if that's where they went with it. Leave it as a nasty place full of nasty people of whom the PCs have the opportunity to be the nicest, the nastiest, or anything in between. In other words: there's no heroes here, just...

There's a lot of babies been thrown out with the bathwater as the editions have gone by; 6e provides the opportunity to go and retrieve a few of them.

They're over-generous only if the DM doesn't in tandem use the item-destruction rules, where all your worn-carried gear has to save if you fail a save vs AoE damage (and in a few other specific instances). As DM I love giving out loads of magic treasure, and can do so safe in the knowledge I'll...

I can very much live without skill challenges and baked-in fail forward (which can be covered under "degrees of success-failure..." anyway) but the rest of this is pretty solid. Oh, and no metacurrency of any kind, please. Nailed it on multiclass. The other thing I'd like to see with multi is...

Which leaves it wide open for by-table interpretation. I've noticed. It's annoying. It'll be interesting to see what they do with this apparently-upcoming reboot of Dark Sun in terms of whether (and how much) its rather edgy morality gets nerfed.

And how do you get the 1e or BX feel back in there?

Side note: in a module I wrote and ran a few years ago I kinda did just this: a big ol' Blue Dragon that in her prime would have summarily slaughtered the party was, when they found her, falling apart due to what seemed like sheer old age. Blind, decrepit, slow, arthritic - she was a shadow of...

I dislike minion mechanics. However, I also disagree with the moralistic argument being used against them; if for no other reason than I prefer modern morals be left in the real world while our games each have their own.

Indeed. I just want to be able to have mass slaughter in the toolbox along with the rest of the (not always savoury) repertoire.

What I'd like (and probably won't get, but whatever) in 6e: --- species mechanics strengthened and expanded: more baked-in benefits and penalties for different species, along with... --- ...way fewer PC-playable species in core; an optional splatbook can cover all the oddball species ---...

In other words, a new enhanced version of the Exploding Runes spell. :)

With regards to D&D and other RPGs, BADD and the Moral Majority did their level best to make this connection in the 1980s and, to the best of my knowledge, failed miserably. Part of the fun of playing in an RPG is that I can sometimes play characters with very different moral positions than my...

The same as in the real world today. Morality and definitions of what is moral and what isn't have changed greatly over real-world history, and it's fairly easy to see how things worked at different times and-or in different cultures in the past. Yes, to (vaguely) reflect either a single...

My experience is precisely the opposite: they can't keep it separate and either play using that knowledge or overcompensate in trying not to use it. If I-as-DM take a player aside to deal with something that player's character is doing, the often-useful side effect is that the rest of the...