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The other thing about old-school play, in generalized terms anyway, is that things are somewhat swingier. A supposedly tough challenge can often be made relatively easy by lucky dice-rolling, while an otherwise trivial challenge can be made into a disaster via some unlucky rolling (I've DMed...

I did. Looking at the poll results, however, shows x people as DMs and y people as players but doesn't tell us how many of those are both vs how many are forever players or forever DMs who don't want to try the other.

Before the campaign starts you only have to vet the low level stuff - things the PCs can do and things they're likely to face. I'd assume this to be SOP; just because professional game designers made the game doesn't mean it's gonna be anywhere near perfect, plus tweaking to suit your own...

In the game I play in there's one such character in our adventuring company, invulnerable and capable to the point where a few of us have even had quiet in-character discussions as to ways and means of (maybe!) taking her down should she ever get turned against us.

Perhaps to no surprise, I don't agree with the bolded piece either.

No. Quite the opposite, in fact. Drow, not being a PC-playable option, might very well have inherent abilities that non-Drow don't have e.g. better dark vision, better ability to move over poor terrain underground, etc. But the moment they start casting arcane spells they're using the same...

Precedent is vitally important for internal consistency, which in turn is beyond essential for a coherent setting. All of these are needed before the 'game' part ever leaves the ground.

"Both DM and Player" is missing as an option; as opposed to just one or just the other.

18 Con? My first thought is Ranger provided I can meet the other pre-req's.

House rule, I think. We also gave crossbow to almost everyone as an allowable weapon, but not sling as that's a bit more complex than simple point-and-shoot.

Also bring back spell interruption. It's not a complex rule unless you want to use RAW initative, and it really does help tone down the casters. It's not at all complex in play but takes a bit of authorial work up front: bring back the idea of specific weapons allowable by (non-warrior) class...

It's possible to drop some of the more complex-for-complexity's-sake rules and still keep things vaguely balanced IMO and IME. A good example is initiative. As written, it's a disaster. We went to a much simpler system ages ago and haven't seen it cause any balance issues, probably because...

The answer to almost all of these issues is, IME, to decouple xp from treasure. This slows advancement down A LOT, and suddenly the different xp advancement tables work as intended because characters aren't trying to gain three levels at once from a lucky-strike dragon's hoard. It also means...

Huh. I always thought hit point advancement stopped when you two-classed until your second class surpassed your first. Thus ehre the thief side would only provide 1d6+Con bonus, when the Thief side got to 8th level and surpassed the Fighter side.

Just the one bad roll of the failed save, really. His odds of hitting the other PCs were pretty good, and those he didn't kill on the first swing were more interested in trying to kill the real enemy in hopes that doing so would bring their Fighter back to his senses. Problem was, their path...

Get it right before you introduce it, not after. Once you've had an NPC cast it in play, you've set and locked in the precedent. A crypt thing isn't a PC-playable species, thus it's irrelevant what it can do. But an NPC Elf casting a spell the PCs have never seen, that's different. That...

Once they've met that technique, though, it becomes a known thing in the setting (and one might sometimes ask, quite reasonably, how and why it wasn't known before, depending on how it's introduced) and thus theoretically a player's next character might have undergone said years of training and...

Maybe, but the thread is specifically about Fighters I think.

A notion I outright refuse to subscribe to, whatever the edition.

Those I'm fine with. Undead and Vampires aren't PC-playable and thus could well have non-standard abilities. This, however, I'm not fine with unless Force Missile specialist was an available option for players to choose for their PCs during roll-up (or as a later feat or ability or whatever)...