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5 unarmed men with basic training with crossbows and daggers could easily take out a single knight. The knight can't run them down, the knight can only fight when they engage and eventually he'll tire first. That leaves out pits, killing the horse at full gallop, ropes, maces hammers. Picks...

Dogs are hard. You go from Chihuahua to mastiff to Great Dane. You really could do a 15 or 20 page creature manual on just dogs.

Seriously a lot of armor is really overrated. People don't know that knights where like tanks they required support. Men at arms shield men etc. one of the things that eventually killed armor along with guns was that once the men in armor were separated from support units 3 or 4 unarmored men...

The consistent argument I've had on this for years is that you'll have more true believers. When Angels or similar beings are showing up and helping faith is a logical confirmable thing. Also the one that seems to be hardest for people to grasp. active Dieties will most likely strike down...

Very very rarely compared to earlier editions. It is the safety wheels version of DND.

And Staffs and spears are way underpowered vs reality. The reach a spear gives should put all swords at a severe disadvantage. Or give the wielder bonus armor to simulate the advantage of their reach.

Well my phone chopped off part of my reply. My original reply was supposed to include that IME 5E even at that difficulty is very unlikely to kill anyone off. I'll add the caveat Unless you are playing low levels 1 to 4th.

Which in the means there is a tiny chance one party member will be killed in my experience. Chances of winning lotto might be higher than multiple Players. In some other games it can mean high chance of multiple fatalities and a flip of the coin for party wipe. But you knew that was what I...

Works just fine. 8 just make notes of what he did that session and if we meet him again he gets a bit better fleshed out with each encounter. Some of my best NPCs grew that way

In some systems High difficulty means it could kill off the entire party.

Books for npc's only work if the books for the vibe and levels of your world. . And then you run into what if all the NPC's are used from a few books. I've tried lots of supplements over the years and it just works better making them up in the fly, or as you plan out areas if that doesn't...

I don't really see dex martials becoming more viable as a problem. In a world where armor and heat can kill you that seems to be normal. And the original fix for that was half giants and mules with high con scores. That works also

There weren't any rules for adding magic shops. Perhaps some Advice on.not making access to magic too easy. It was pretty wide open for the DM to run it however they wanted. I played and ran it both ways back then. There was no standard way to do anything back then. Every table was...

Yes and every encounter was pretty freaking predictable and easy. I don't think 2024 rules play as hard as Dark sun rules. I suspect you are also underestimating the effects of weaker armor in combat. Plate mail and full armor sets in general kill on Athas. Its just to freaking hot for that...

Meh. We had fun for a few games a couple of times with a couple of groups but the "bob" unintentionally screwed us over again because he has the brain power of a really stupid dog got old with most of the players really fast. It's just not fun in DND. If I want to run that kind of game we do...

Well by default rules anything you got back to safety (town, home base etc) , you got ep equal to the gold piece value of your treasure. Not at the point getting the treasure. So if you used the potions no ep. If they went to your board then ep. There where some vague Stuff about letting PC's...

Well the baddies and monsters should be bumped up a bit if you are using 5e dark sun. Players should be worried about encounters and ready to run. Especially at lower levels. Of course even 2e rules once they hit 8th or above it turns completely around. I'd say bump all the monsters up at...

Its been awhile but I remember it implying pretty strongly if not saying it outright that the other races where made from the halflings themselves. Not that it matters to the original point that the wild halflings in the supplements were several bridges too far for most players.

Well take out unearthed arcana and that's a fair amount on problematic rules simply gone.

Ok they eat other intelligent beings. But since all humanoid life on athas descended from them its still probably cannibalism unless you want to argue neanderthals weren't human.