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Speaking as someone that is main 3e when is not BECMI - I am unsure this is correct. The thing is, while 3e characters punch hard (to address a later part of your post, including melee characters when competently built and played, but I understand THAT is not for everyone), 3e monsters also...

Full plate needs STR 20? So almost no soldier wears it?

Something just occurred to me. In the new D&D movie, which came out firmly in the 5e era, the PCs run away quite often. I presume a casual viewer which then becomes interested in the game will have the expectation that fleeing is a more than legitimate strategy when the odds are against the party...

3e had Ranger closer as template to the Fighter. Truth to be told, as it happened with the Paladin, Pathfinder refined the 3e Ranger quite a bit, restoring d10 HDs and even adding the Medium Armor proficiency. A few 3e splatbooks had awesome archery-related Ranger spells, though. Of note, 3e/PF...

This is fascinating, looking forward any update.

You could create a moment during the funeral in which Dwarves all together mourn using something related to the deceased. Say a great warrior and king would be saluted with axes bashing on shields, while a great artificer and crafter would be saluted with the clang of hammers on his way into the...

"Modern" compared to ancient Greece but yeah, I wasn't clear at all. Sorry. But good point on the fact that we ultimately have both very strongly felt. After all, in a modern saga, we have Luke, a literal aspiring Knight, and we have Han Solo - which is expected to be more of the scoundrel type...

The root for the Indo-European word "Hero" comes from is "protector" or "defender" unless I am mistaken. ... but the meaning was already altered in ancient Greece, with the heores more bound to honor and glory than actual virtue, and while great killers and able to show great strength, they are...

This level 0 discourse reminds me of an amazing 3P book created by Italian game designers (from the forums Dragonslair unless I am mistaken), called "Il Manuale dei Livelli Infimi" - The Book of the Least Level, least intended as opposite of Epic. It would have rules for 3e core classes for...

Unsure about that. There are parts of 4e that were rewritten over and over and the difference between the first and later monster manuals are striking. I also don't consider the execution of several powers well made at all for what I expect from a fantasy RPG.

That's entirely debatable in base of what one wants from a game.

5e removed basically anything that made 3e interesting, being it a meaningful build choice, a meaningful combat action, or more than a few monster with actual magic abilities. It has non-4e aesthetics so to speak (but not 3e exclusive), for reasons we know and we cannot talk about without...

Absolutely not, unless one has a cursory, at best, knowledge of 3ed. 5e not being closer to 4e doesn't imply 5e is close in any meaningful way to 3e. Not more than to B/X, BECMI and AD&D at least.

I wish.

Create lands, people, locations, and traditions... Play many different creatures. But probably above all, surprise people. In both ways. Sometimes put them in a difficult position and see how reacts, enjoy their ingenuity. But also observe their fascination with a magical place or with a...

There are too many instances of scent, tremorsense, see invisibility, blindsense, blindsight, truesight etc that counter in part or totally Invisibility, Stealth, or both to call them "Specific" counterplay. This is nothing niche in any way, shape or form and assuming it is, especially for...

I don't think this is correct. You can still hide from enemies that can see invisible no problem, like high-level demons, in more than one edition. It is true that functionally there is a substantial overlap, and at certain level intervals invisibility comes on top, but they are not the same...

As someone that likes all of this, is the third point going to fly with those that like 5e because can be easily played "theater of the mind"?

I presume the 4e designers thought the same thing and boy, were they wrong - at least for a sufficient number of people. In this very thread, what makes planes special for people has been said over and over - but one can lead a horse to water, but you can't make the horse drink I suppose. I...

In 3e, Carceri has just "Mild-Evil" as planar trait (alongside normal gravity, that weird but cool planar structure and whatnot). For comparison, the Abyss was Mild-Chaos and Mild-Evil, and the Pandemonium was Mild-Chaos. Limbo was Strong Chaos. Hades was Strong Evil. Edit: and while the idea...