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It's a pain. People won't even track rations past 3rd level.

My philosophy was/is basically that I'm a nobody, but I like doing this sort of thing in my free time, and I've been doing this sort of thing since the '90s. I love making monsters. Let me throw together a few good examples of what I can do, post them PWYW, and let those freebies sorta help me...

Letting PCs get a 30 in their primary stats gives them the same DCs and attack bonuses as stat-capped CR 30 monsters, so I don't see it as too big of a deal. By the time a PC gets their primary stats from 20 to 30, they're functionally 25th-level. If they just bump their Con and their primary...

Protagonists are the center of the action, so you can't prevent the players from occupying that space in the narrative of the game dynamic. That's like asking if you'd play a game without players.

Seconded. I'm looking forward to the Guild's impact on the way we interact with each other and with the game. Something akin to how the OGL changed the way the fanbase interacted with the game in 2000, but now being fully digital, and way more granular.

100% unnecessary.

Armor could just grant "armor hit points" akin to temporary hit points, except critical hits bypass them and deal damage directly to your normal hit points. Light armor: +3 (1d4) per character level or CR Medium armor: +4 (1d6) per level per character level or CR Heavy armor: +5 (1d8) per level...

Mmmm... spam.

I think you could get away with most of what you want by bumping the DC for repeated saving throws by +5, making it harder to shrug off of you fail the initial save but not screwing a PC for 10 rounds if they roll low once.

This. It solves the dilemma of the target of a surprise attack winning initiative.

a) yes b) dynamic combat effects derived from penalties other than mere hit point attrition. it's nice to see combat swing on something other than abstract hp totals. c) the roll is the roll. body shots tend to happen more often as a matter of course, so I don't mind it. d) to date, I allow...

I have (or rather, had, up until a jaw-dropping TPK in the Gallery of Angels in OotA) a similar situation with a player in my group using an Oath of Vengeance Paladin to justify basically doing whatever the hell she felt like justifying at the time. I had plans to strip her of her subclass and...

Beyond establishing a very low-magic setting, I can't imagine a single good reason to do this. If you limit cantrips in a way that's got any impact whatsoever, you're just offloading the action economy for spellcasters onto their equipment. Unless a wizard shooting a crossbow rather than a...

Any DM who doesn't call the occasional audible is straightjacketing themselves into every mistake they might have made in the design phase for the encounter at hand.

Simple solution: just decide what you actually want: a gritty game, or a safety-netted game. You quite literally can't have both, OP.

All of these issues are presently covered by Wisdom or Constitution, except Death Saves, which are explicitly unmodified rolls. Wisdom (Insight) would tell you if an "intimidating" NPC was merely boasting or making credible threats. Constitution is already the go-to for saves against poisons and...

No. The spell does not explicate this point. Eldritch Blasts are not simultaneous.

Seconded. There's zero question with regard to what "normal form" means, but it doesn't break the game to allow this sort of Ranma 1/2 stuff because neither sex nor gender has much - if any - impact on the game from a mechanical standpoint.

No, you don't somehow subtract 5 from the total damage. Someone with 75 hit points gets hit for 80 damage, they got hit for 80 damage. c.f. death from massive damage in the DMG, et al.

Arial Black is absolutely 100% right on this matter, and in perfect accordance with my views. The blackjack example is a perfect analogy. The only comments from people opposing this position amount to a Dude-esque "that's just like... your opinion, man," which while true to some extent, is just...