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You maybe have an opportunity to test drive the gritty rest variant. Your party are approaching a Necropolis: a place of death and horror. You could introduce an environmental effect that the Necropolis is creating that extends for miles into the surrounding lands that causes fitful sleep...

The current system rewards players with access to the Monster Manual and the time to peruse it. Let alone other supplementary materials. (Never run an encounter with Bristled Moorbounders in against a party with a druid in it.) "More scope for abilities and mechanical customisation in wild...

That's the thing: you aren't taking creativity away from players. You are taking the system mastery barrier away in exchange for imagination. You will no longer have to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the available options, and will have much more freedom to flavour according to your...

To me, showing the way that sustained fear, loss, and trauma can push some people into extremism is an interesting facet, and not one explored much elsewhere.

I'm not played out on 5e any more than I'm played out on BECMI. I will look at a new version of D&D when it comes out and make a decision about it when I see it.

1. No. I've always seen several potential negatives in this, and no positives. 2. This is common in Adventurer's League games where the characters aren't part of a set party, and are a fairly random jumbling as long as they're all the same tier. (Although there is a heavy bias towards the top...

I think that adventure writers should aim to include at least one "morally correct" (or at least fitting in with generally "good" aligned morals.) Even if this means that they would lose out of some of the rewards. The reason being that a lot of the groups playing adventures will be of generally...

I think a more constructive approach might be to look at the actual issues that the goals are intended to address. For example, TheSword talks about their players behaving like murderhoboes, and also this: That is telling: If we can work out why this group find 5e combat of negligible risk...

Aetherbrand? Regarding the world, IIRC you have read the Aeronaut's Windlass? Do you have Radiant Citadel? If you have Exploring Eberron you could probably get some use from some of the planes like Irian.

I'd say that there is a distinction between low optimisation and no optimisation. Low optimisation would be what you'd expect of new players following the suggestions for creating a character from the class in the PHB. Moderate optimisation is going to involve greater levels of synergy in their...

I think that if this is the fundamental issue that you are trying to address, a chat with your players is going to to do much more good than just trying to kill more of their characters. If your players are behaving like this it is far more to do with them deciding to play murderhobo characters...

Not being core doesn't mean that they will be "gone". They're not core in the current edition and they're not "gone" at the moment.

Hang on. What?

Artificer subclass is how I did my version of the Swordmage, on the basis that they channel magic through their weapon, which seems very much in the Artificer concept. The subclass allowed layering more than one infusion into a single item and making attacks in conjunction with casting spells. I...

You'll still have your ability to tear up your players' character sheets in their faces if they take an unlucky crit. Getting 6 levels of exhaustion from the d6 when they first go down is still going to be fatal. It just seemed to be easier to say that failing a death save adds a level of...

Low optimisation: The baseline of the book should be beginner DMs and Players. As players gain experience and learn to optimise, DM's will gain experience and learn to increase encounters and raise difficulties to match. There should be advice for adjusting encounters certainly, but even a...

Ah, but with the adventuring day being cut so short, you will have many more resources to spend to avoid getting hurt. Unlike a divine caster who will likely have to burn most of their spare resources in healing to make up for slower natural healing. furthermore you are affected much less by...

Getting further into the nitty-gritty: Does dropping to 0 HP cause a character to go prone? I'm guessing that characters still take a failed death save if they are hit while on 0 HP, but since they aren't incapacitated, they don't get automatically critted and get two failed death saves...

Sounds like a good time to play an arcane caster!

Yes, but do you regard that as an actual exploit or just playing by what the rules say? I suspect most people draw that line in different places.