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I'm with you on this, it's where the take 10/take 20 rules of 3e were a great addition because it gave an actual rule for it. Otherwise, for a 5e game, if there was no time pressure and there was someone trained in thief tools who could spend time working on the lock, I'd do the exact same thing...

You've just reminded me of something a lot of DMs seem to call for a roll for: jumping. Seems all too often when a PC has the requisite strength score to clear the chasm in 5e rules, a DM will often still call for an athletics check.

I think some of this knowledge is common to the world anyway. That is, unless trolls are brand new to the world or the region, it would be common knowledge for the character in-game to know that trolls are harmed by fire. It's the same thing with werewolves being harmed by silver and vampires...

Wait, your OP mentioned mapping from the player side, was it meant to be the DM side? Maybe I misread it, though it technically doesn't change my node based mapping, it's just that the nodes and lines make a lot more spatial sense when I'm doing it as a DM.

When I map, I normally use nodes with paths leading off them, sometimes I'll embellish a little and make those paths look like stairs or just make a note that they're "stairs up". This generally provides all the information we need to get around and explore, no need for mapping each 10'...

Which in the situation described is basically "Wait, what? Did I not say it was lava?" I'm pretty sure in the past that I've had situations where I've described something and then clarified because otherwise it seemed like a player was about to send their character to death.

I probably lean more on the player skill than character skill side of things, I feel like it comes from earlier editions of DnD where having skills wasn't a given (basically the split between TSR and WotC editions). Player "skill" really just players thinking of doing something will often mean...

I think the intent is clear, even if the wording is off. Once it is arcane armour you can don/doff as it as an action.

I think nowadays I'd probably stick to side initiative, one roll. Maybe use the order of actions from BECMI but since it doesn't really affect anything, probably just let people do things in whatever order they want on their turn.

I think as long as all the other modifiers are being used (weapon speed, various misc modifiers) then it isn't actually too bad (though I recall a halfling thief that eviscerated a powerful wizard who couldn't get a spell off due to the speed of his daggers).

I think it's better to strip out percentile strength as a bonus only for warriors with 18 strength and instead make "percentile strength" a sort of training warriors have no matter their strength. A warrior with 14/76 strength would gain a +1 bonus to hit and +3 damage which makes warriors of...

When you add in all the extra bits, it can significantly increase the time it takes to create a new PC, but the good thing about 2e is that you don't need to have things like proficiencies or class kits, though I'd still grant the fighter specialisation even if I wasn't using weapon proficiencies.

Oh yeah, for sure. I'm just saying what works for me, if epub works for you then that's all good.

Momoa was a great Aquaman, I enjoyed both of his movies.

Pretty much as @Reynard said. Like I said, I love epub for novels, but I have one or two books that were about fantasy map making and I found that epub just sucks for usability.

Yeah, I think the vast majority of players just want to pick a character they like and don't really care about optimising or seeking out synergies with the group, they're there to have fun and if they end up with a party of dwarf fighters and a halfling thief then they'll run with that.

You don't have to look strong, but I think ot works better for wonder woman, a literal warrior woman. Gal was model thin, really didn't suit the look to me.

Probably more to do with them rebooting the DCU, they've already replaced superman and people loved Henry Cavill. I can't think of any roles for her, but then I'm not that knowledgeable about DC comics. I'm glad they're recasting wonder woman, hopefully this time it'll be an actress who...

I did briefly remove thieves from my 2e edit, replacing it with a light armoured skirmisher warrior (with the attack and hit dice of warriors), but after creating an expert class based on birthright's guilder, Ive added them back in as a subclass of the expert.

This sounds cool, and due to my love of the old gargoyles cartoon, I'd like to see something where they're playable.