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I'm into it. My own homebrew heartache version of D&D- "dnd Jazz"- is ten levels, with significantly reduced hps and damage- at least in its current form, we're playtesting tomorrow night. It's much closer to 1e or Basic than the revised 5e rules.

Ouch.

I'm not sure that this demonstrates a player vs DM mentality so much as a willingness to let the dice roll how they may.

I mean, that's the very definition of power creep. Did clerics need a buffing?

My group definitely engaged in a certain degree of Gygax hero worship back in the day. Even now we largely regard him as a flawed genius.

Methinks you have some catching up to do. This has been addressed, and eloquently, on these forums many times; and Gygax's own words, given to us from as early as some of his pre-1e writings to as late as (I want to say) the 00s, here on this very forum, make a pretty damning indictment as...

I've done buttloads of monster conversions, and yet somehow, of the ones you mentioned, I have only done the director (and crawler, the monster that directors use as a mount). These contain my versions, if you want them, along with... a few other monsters. EDIT: Oh- I use a slightly different...

A handful of years younger.

Then you might just force them to use it. That would be an incredible moment.

Ambiguous commands are always a fail.

I don't see any reason that you would have to pay for a stronghold all at once. You could break it down to individual laborers' wages and fees for supplies if you really wanted to, but I'd just handwave it and have the player track their investment over time until they payed it off, at which...

I prefer the last option. They threw off the effect and recovered, and they learned stuff along the way. This restores you to the start of your level. It's not a natural recovery; although I want to give the pc their newly earned xp, that doesn't seem in line with the spell to me. Just my 2 cp.

Cleric: "I cast command on the fighter: 'Wish!'" Fighter: "Man, I wish I had a vorpal sword." The fighter can wish all they want, but they can't cast wish. (At least without some way to do so.) You can try commanding someone to "Melt!" but most of the time, they simply can't, so you waste...

I have no idea where you're getting this from. Every 5e DM I know loves older editions, even if maybe not every edition.

I think it was clearly designed for dms and players from all editions, as a "best of DnD" edition. Again, though, do you have any evidence that the lion's share of 1e and 2e dms didn't stick with it? I have never seen any kind of study or anything.

I have been pretty active here since Eric Noah quit running his site. While there were certainly people pointing at "rulings not rules" in some threads, I think you are massively exaggerating, at least from the way I remember it. "Every single thread"? I really don't think that was the case. I...

I have never heard of this apology tour, or a bunch of these "we screwed up the DMG" comments, but maybe I missed them. I don't always watch designer commentary. Do you have links?

Are you seriously suggesting that no DM who started with 5e is a good DM? Or counts as experienced after DMing for an entire decade? I am very dubious about your claim that 5e is awful to DM in the first place, and I think you're going to a pretty extreme place here.

Did they, though? This sounds like an anecdote, but if you have evidence to back it up, I'm open to seeing it. As far as my experience goes, every old DM who's running a game is running 5e (except maybe one I know in another town).

Dude. Okay, lines and veils and session zero are part of the social contract at the table. They aren't rules in the same way that the text of a spell in the PH is. They're two entirely different things. No rule in the game prevents pcs from doing horrible things to each other. The social...