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The Marilith has the 'Reactive' trait. It doesn't mean she's nuclear, it means she can take a reaction on every turn in combat. Usually the marilith uses it to either make OAs or use Riposte, but your monster could use it to hit back.

The point is that no matter how simulationist or gamist you're making it, you're still abstracting things. Different mechanical representations of the same story exist because the above-game function of an NPC statblock usually to exist for a few rounds until the PCs leave or defeat them and it...

Honestly if I were going to redo it, I'd make it a Bonus Action touch range spell, concentration for 1 round and it adds 1d4 to your attack, stacking with Bless etc. Basically an arcane response to that divine spell.

I think of it like this: your NPC Evoker Wizard 'actually' has the same number of spell slots as a 12th level wizard in the fiction but it's mechanically abstracted for the few rounds the wizard participates as a combatant. (An actual 12th level Wizard probably doesn't have 121 hit points, but...

I keep forgetting that Spiritual Weapon is concentration in 5.24.

I've never done it, but if I did I don't think I'd use normal rules but some unique magic effect for the actual Honey We Shrunk the Kids experience. A bunch of 'giant' insects that are actually just regular insects, pixies the relative size of hill giants (but they can fly)

Sounds like a boss in a Metroid Prime game. ...hey one of those is coming out this year.

Most 5E monsters haven't since 2021, that's just how the game design has changed.

Ooh, thought. Maybe if the party has to deal with devils, an NPC will recommend a hellish lawyer and give you her card. If/when the PCs actually summon the lawyer, she turns out to be a semanticore.

It would probably be a lawyer. Constantly getting into arguments about the meaning of a sentence.

The players can. As long as one of the spells is not cast with a spell slot, anyone can do what the OP described.

As @Sorcerers Apprentice said, the rule in 5.24 is that you can only cast one spell with a spell slot each turn. Even PCs can cast a bonus action spiritual weapon and then a fireball if they can cast one or both of them without using spell slots.

That really only applies to Wizards. The other arcane casters don't use a spellbook.

I'm torn three ways on 2nd favorite: 5e, 2e, and RC. 5e is the edition I've played the longest at this point and it's extremely flexible in terms of homebrew. 2e has some of my favorite settings like Spelljammer and Dark Sun RC for having the cajones to go all the way to level 36.

The errata to the 2014 book didn't. Since taking 70 damage would still leave you with 0 (there's no negative HP in 5E) it would disintegrate you. It's a dumb quirk of 'natural language' that it doesn't with the original and 2024 PHB wording.

As someone who really cut their DMing teeth with 4E, mid level would be paragon tier, 11 to 20. Though I suppose in 5E it would be something more like 8 to 12.

That's the point. There's no obvious plain reading of the text! That's why errata exist.

They literally added errata to clarify the situation. I mean you're certainly entitled to house rule it that way but that's not RAI, at least for 2014 rules as they stand.

Oh it absolutely is. It's very unlikely to even come up. Though the other reasons for the errata still apply.

Honestly other than 4E it's generally pretty easy to convert adventures between editions. In 4E it can be trickier because there areso many variations of every monster type and 5E likely doesn't have obvious equivalents.