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I put no restrictions on it in my games. If someone wanted to pick up 1 level of every class they can do that. I'd like there to be story reasons but I don't enforce story readings for multiclassing.

My post was talking about base classes, not subclasses.

From memory it was a good system, you didn't even bother rolling for incidental stuff and you maybe dropped a rank if you had to make a big purchase which differed depending on your wealth rank.

In games I've been in, I guess it still mattered, but we used it for bribes or to cover costs for things. I never really cared about it because I didn't have much else to spend it on so basically just threw it at problems.

Yeah, I've always felt that if you have a paladin on your team, you're making the save. Positioning can affect that but if you're in the aura, you'll be fine.

That sounds cool as it made the fighter someone to be feared as they're literally indomitable. Fits with the super heroics of 5e.

Given that 1e fighters likely had plenty of magic bonuses to their saves (from magic armour or rings), that 20th level fighter was probably only failing on a roll of 1.

I think the main reason why people jumped on the one roll for all the missiles was partially (mostly?) about the invoker adding their Int bonus to the damage for all the missiles with empowered evocation. A 20 Intelligence wizard dealing 7-10 damage per missile instead of 2-5 is fairly impressive.

I ran some thunder rift modules in 5e, tended to just use a 1 to 1 conversion between editions and just used some other stats that were similar in the old dnd modules to other creatures. For instance the newts in knight of newts became goblins, the water elemental remained a water elemental. I...

I actually quite like the idea of magic missile being a concentration breaker forcing multiple rolls (I've never actually run it that way but would be willing to give it a go if I ever run a 5e game again). It also gives another good reason for the development of the shield spell as a...

Not sure the players would be staying awake for that one.

When you really need to hot, magic missile is great, especially if the DM has been highlighting how hurt enemies are, gives you a good target to attempt to finish off with MM.

My d4 problem is that I have some which you read from the top and others that you read from the bottom and sometimes they all get used together which can mean working out what the results are a bit of a nightmare.

I'm not sure it was updated once it was decided to revise the game, but the magic missile tweet had been around for quite a while before the last update. I was like you and felt it must have been in there, I've checked a couple of times since. I believe that Crawford also followed that tweet...

To be fair, Crawford's interpretation never made it into official use, it was just a tweet. I don't believe it was even added to sage advice.

5e is what my friends are running and I like playing RPGs and hanging out with them. We also have a game of OSE that is semi in motion. DnD (any version) isn't necessarily a requirement for me to play RPGs though, I'm happy to run or play in others. I tried to get a trial run of savage worlds...

Theory crafting has rarely, if ever, had anything to do with actual play.

I don't actually feel like spell slots need to be reduced and, in fact, I'd have a slight increase gaining an extra 2nd, 3rd, and 4th level spell slot at class levels 12, 14, and 16 to get rid of those levels where no additional spell slots are gained. This is assuming that 5.5 kept the same...

I go with the following if I even need to define them. Caster. Base class has spellcasting Martial. Base class gains an ability that improves their weapon capabilities (extra attack or sneak attack) Hybrid. Made up of both Caster and Martial, tend to lean on one more than the other. Paladin...

Sometimes. Denial can simply be "No, I'm not moving from a single office to open plan" but ultimately you go anyway because the decision isn't yours. Then, if you have good change managers, you move through the steps to acceptance.