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I would like that the environmental challenges could be stripped out and reused in other settings. At least the core elements of it. Though I have been reading the Mythic GM emulator and am beginning to think that an oracular system or a deck building system may be the best for open ended...

Dunno, it one thing to suffer character death due to bad die roll but from a spreadsheet exercise?

The biggest downside to this would be that a serious fail state, historically, meant that the people on the expedition died. Not something players like to experience.

Don't know about you but in the old days we were a lot younger and had better information retention. Unless you are talking about actual young people here.

I think you are under valuing Mike's perspective. I think that these adventures are good and a good way to present stuff. I do not consider them complete adventures but more outlines and inspiration to craft a campaign. There is enough there to run a basic adventure but they are sparce enough to...

Never played it or ran it. Stated it one but the campaign fell apart early. Would like to play or run. I also would like to play Wild Beyond the Witchlight.

Maybe some kind of deck mechanic that generates a thematic scenario for the party to resolve?

Not necessarily, in most other media this is an exercise in creative writing. Some elements of it could be handled with improv but that is creative writing wearing another hat.

This mostly. The only game I can think of that does logistics (right now) outside of wargames would be Dead of Winter (possibly without the traitor mechanic). You could emulate the crisis of the week style with an oracle system to generate random themed crises.

May be it is just me, I am not the most attentive reader these days, but all the advice I have seen is for making high level encounters. Now, I did not find making encounters all that hard, (a bit tedious but not that hard, though perhaps hard to predict how they will go) it is the campaign...

Glad you are having a good time with a system and just be careful with your tendency to push the characters to their limits.

I only play D&D these days, but I have played other rpgs in the past.

Nope, in my opinion this is one the best books ever in the life of 5e.

I have not played Pathfinder but in 5e this is true for me. It is not the at the table experience I have issues with it is the at the table experience.

It is a possible fix if you try it and think there is a problem. I honestly do not think it will be that much of a problem and I regard it as a positive contribution to world building. On the topic of martials concentrating on spells, yes, they are likely to have better con saves, but they are...

I don't think you are. This thread once again proves the conservatism of DMs.

That sounds like a lot of hard work.

Either a missed opportunity to lead a life of crime or to use the fact as a plot point in series of crime/spy novels.

And once again we see diametrically opposed views on what is useful in a D&D book. I am somewhat interested in the faction system and may use it in the background to track relationships with major players in a new campaign. More character options are all to the good but I would not have wanted...

I think the format is a solid one for any major world setting, Greyhawk, Dark Sun, Dragonlance etc. I am not sure I want it for the planes, basically there are too much planes. Perhaps for Sigil but for general planes. I would like to see an anthology of low level adventures that use portals...