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"Oh, a star"... bounce, bounce, bounce... * grabs star * Now I am raging with action surge, flurry of blows, infini-smite with a light-spell cast on myself!!!! Chaaaaaarge!!!

Exactly! And that's why the success/failure should be determined by a d20, i.e. a single die. Damage however doesn't need to be as swingy and can be done with a bunch of dice.

That table either needs a reboot, or at least a new Session Zero. You need to sit down with the group and check what kind of game everybody wants to play. Players tend to start sabotaging a game when they are dissatisfied with the game. Find out what's up. Find if there is a gap between the...

Your feelings are correct: these types of adventures are quite risky. PCs may decide that they will not go behind the back of the princess (the de-facto head of state), may not ask the right questions, or may not know where to start. They may even have no interest in the type of work. So, it's...

Nobody needs to do anything at our table. If you want to be a paladin that never smites, a cleric and never heal or a melee wizard, then go ahead. It's up to the party to form a cohesive unit that cooperates during Session Zero. This unit can have flaws (such as no healer). And after that it's...

Livable pocket dimensions. You gotta convince your DM that these exist. From there on, you can build your own portable stronghold.

Shopping to optimize characters using basic items from the Weapons and Armor tables in the PHB is just "meh". Also, it's mean for the heavy armor guys who want the 1500 gc plate. Instead of dropping gold, I usually just drop the main upgrades as loot in the early levels. Things like longswords...

Of course players will take over property. They'll probably want to improve it too. I'm quite experienced with this by now. Happened in every campaign I have been the DM in. In my case it takes surprisingly little effort to manage. The building, town You probably have a map already. Hand over a...

Everyone in the group carefully reads the description of each magic item. Then they discuss together how that item can be used to make the group stronger as a whole. It's amazing how nice they are to each other.

I think that D&D 5E is not built for this. The effect of a critical hit (double damage dice) is often (*) quite minor on the outcome of an encounter. As a player I would not like it if I almost never score a critical hit anymore. You would need to massively increase the effect of those...

Besides the excellent advice of doing less melee, more ranged (spells, AoE, and ordinary archers), you can check out monsters with an anti-magic field (example: the Beholder's Antimagic Cone). This also deals with the darkness. A word of warning though: As a player who enjoys playing...

If we switch over to Pathfinder or any other system for medieval fantasy roleplaying, I will happily call my game "D&D", and good luck to anyone disagreeing.

Depends entirely on the DM. If the DM allows normal interaction with other humanoids if you are purple and have giant horns, then that's my choice. I'll tone it down if purple and giant horns means I get disadvantage on every roll in a social encounter.

First of all, players might actually enjoy it if they rule supreme and the bad guys never stood much of a chance. I am not so familiar with the LV-246, so here's just some ideas to make combat interesting but manageable for the DM: Air elementals (ignore the "hover" bit, and let them fly for...

3x D&D 5E with plenty homebrew, little to no house-rules, limited expansion books and no 3rd party stuff (not because I am against it, but since I homebrew stuff anyway I don't see the point).

I just checked out the costs of the Pathfinder Core Rulebook. I did that more because I would like to support Paizo's announcement of the "ORC" (Open RPG Creative License) that came out today, and not so much because the OGL 1.1 would affect me. I am certainly going to keep on rolling dice, but...

The show must go on. DMs should never stop to think longer than max. 30 seconds per turn during combat. So, no complexity for me, even at high level. But I don't consider legendary actions or lair actions particularly complex. And some damage resistance is also not very complicated. The real...

(emphasis mine) That's the thing, isn't it? You all got hooked on an amazing platform (DDB) that has tons of information, functionality and a great user interface. And then the startup company sold it, and now someone wants to make money. The first hit is for free. After that...

I'm just happy rolling my d20s and playing D&D, using paper books that I bought a while ago, at a table with friends and a fridge full of beer. We always homebrew our stories and will probably not buy any new books. Wasn't going to do that anyway, and the OGL stuff does not change it. And I...