D&D 5E (2014) What Single Thing Would You Eliminate

[Ralif Redhammer]

I did this in 4e...it was okay. In some ways it's simpler, but also makes combat less dynamic.

I feel like "side initiative" solves that issue. I might try it for my high (12th) level group and see how it goes.

 

[hopeless]

I'd eliminate Immunity to damage at low levels so for example were rats are resistant ONLY rather than immune to normal damage.
I'd also make Skeletons resistance to all bar blunt weapons from normal forms of damage, but that's another story entirely.

 

[Undrave]

I am going to try out a house rule where I only allow Con modifiers to HP once, not per level, as well as requiring rolls with no option to just take the average. This reduction in PC hp should give most players pause instead of just barreling headlong into battle with everything they encounter.

BOOO! Rolling for stats or HP SUCKS!

 

[Musing Mage]

BOOO! Rolling for stats or HP SUCKS!

So I guess rolling 3d6 for attributes wouldn't be your thing either?

 

[ART!]

Does anyone actually use the daily encounter quota?

If you don't, the PCs just blow through the encounters. The game is designed for its use and it really throws things off if you don't.

In my 4+ years of weekly 5E, neither I nor any other DM in our group has ever used a daily encounter quota. I don't even really get why it exists. I just scale the frequency and ease of encounters on whatever I think the game session needs.

Bonus action

This is what I was going to post, so seconded?

I don't know what the alternative is, but this just makes juggling action options too difficult for me - unless I'm running a fighter.

Concentration

This is the bane of my existence when I run spellcasters, to the point that it dissuades me from running them. Just limit how many spells a caster can have active, or something, and be done with it.

 

[Aaron L]

Dragonpeople.

 

[R_J_K75]

I would eliminate the need to look in 12 different places to resolve/research a rule issue. And add a better index.

 

[The Glen]

Bonus action

Problem with the bonus action is it just so uneven. Some classes get too many things to do with their bonus action other classes don't get any bonus action at all. It needed to have some sort of balance

 

[Faolyn]

This is what I was going to post, so seconded?

I don't know what the alternative is, but this just makes juggling action options too difficult for me - unless I'm running a fighter.

Probably just let a character have a certain number of actions and they can spend them how they wish. IIRC, PF2 allows for three or four, and moving is an action, so you can spend something like two actions moving and one attacking, or two attacking and one doing some other action.

This is the bane of my existence when I run spellcasters, to the point that it dissuades me from running them. Just limit how many spells a caster can have active, or something, and be done with it.

It's annoying as a player, but it does sooo much, I feel, to reduce caster supremacy.

 

[houser2112]

Problem with the bonus action is it just so uneven. Some classes get too many things to do with their bonus action other classes don't get any bonus action at all. It needed to have some sort of balance

The "if you cast a spell as a BA, you can only cast a spell with your Action if one of them is a cantrip" rule is annoying. Equal rights for Bonus Actions!