Settle a debate for me

I was recently reminded of the TTRPG design concept of Combat as Sport/War, which is a way to see how a game presents encounter design to the players, its rewards, lethality, balance, etc.

Explaining it a bit more from what I understand (feel free to correct me on anything wrong):

- Combat as Sport means that combat is expected to be part of the main attraction of the game, you are rewarded for fighting monsters in a more or less equal footing and level ups (with XP often being given through fighting) give your even more "paper buttons" to press during fights. A CaS game then test the Players by seeing their in game strategies and character building at work while testing the DMs ability to put a balanced encounter with varied enemies team synergies and map layouts.

- Combat as War means that combat is expected to be most of the time unbalanced towards one side, since it focus more on verisimilitude above all. A mighty dragon's hoard will have a Adult Dragon in it no matter if its a level 1 or 20 party. Combat is more letal and rewards as focused more so beyond fighting itself, like how in old D&D, Gold = XP. Reconnaissance missions, gathering resources, guerrilla tactics, overwhelming numbers, traps and dastardly plans are necessary to survive in CaW games.

In light of recent discussions on Twitter:

I'd go all the way to 20, but the pole options cap out at 6

Besides, DMs typically don't like starting too high leveled

This goes against the speel description, which requires you to be hit with an attack before casting the spell.

I'm also a low HP and low AC sorcerer/warlock.

EDIT: this was an out-of-the-blue rule change that happened mid-session.

I've seen a lot of Homebrew that makes the Ranger a non-caster, and so I asked the UA subreddit about it. I got over 1000 votes, which were split about 50/50: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnearthedArcana/s/uNElP1VOdz

So I figured I should try another poll with more options.

If you could rework the Ranger class from the ground up, would you make it a Half-Caster or Non-Caster?

Half-Caster Swap: You can Swap spells on a Long Rest (like a Druid).

Non-Caster Invocation: The class is primarily a Non-Caster class, but does gain Invocation like features (a Ranger equivalent) that would you customise the class so that you could cast spells once per rest.

Non-Caster Subclass: The class is primarily Non-Caster class, but does have a caster subclass (similar to Arcane Trickster).

Just as a refresher:

• Standard Array = [15/14/13/12/10/8], Assigning one of each to an Attribute + Racial/Species/Background bonuses.
• Point Buy = All attributes starts at 8, you have 27 points to buy higher stats up to 15 (with 14 & 15 costing more) + Racial/Species/Background bonuses.
• Rolling Dice = Roll 4d6, drop the lowest numbered die, combine the rest, repeat 5 more times, assign each of the 6 combined numbers into each attributes, add Racial/Species/Background bonuses.
• House Rules of Official Methods = Stuff like Standard Array with different numbers, Point Buy with extra points, Rolling Dice but allowing to reroll 1s, etc.
• Completely Homebrewed Methods = Anything not listed here.

Which of these classes provides the best longbow/shortbow build? I’m looking for who has the most potent abilities or spells or what have you to best support an archery playstyle.

My personal choice would probably have to be a Battlemaster fighter. It gives so much versatility to an archer and turns them into something of a controller on the battlefield while also probably putting out the most damage out of any of these other class choices.

And please tell me why you think the way you do

EDIT: For anyone confused, Tasha introduced new sorcerer archetypes that gave a lot more spells known for free, which wasn't done in the PHB or in Xanathar.

From all the supplements of 5e besides the 3 core rule books, what do you think is the most "must have" one and why?

Edit: Due to being rather tired of "where gnomes? Where's half orc? Where's dragonborn?" comments, I'll clarify this:

1) This isn't a poll about what your favorite race is

2) No I didn't forget about your favorite race, these that have been selected are the original 1974 dnd box set races and as thus the traditional ones.

For the purpose of this I am not including things like Hexblade, Sword Bard or Bladesinger as they are the exception to the rule for their respective classes. I am also not including the Cleric or the Artificer, as even though they can be used in a martial capacity, I feel there is more emphasis on their casting than weapon attacks.

As in the topic title, what is your preferred method of generating attributes? Just doing a bit of personal research. Tell me about your weird and esoteric ways of getting stats!

In case you aren't aware, D&D Beyond suddenly removed the ability to purchase small parts of their books (races, subclasses etc) forcing players that want to have access to these options to buy the whole book they come from.

I've seen some people sharing their opinions and would love to gather them in one place. Should only take a couple of minutes, but would appreciate it if you could spare the time to fill out this survey.

Edit: Thanks to everyone that responded to the survey. I've posted the full results here.

There’s lots of discussion, but I wanna see some numbers on the board.

Any other options in comments

The other day there was a story about a PC getting aged by a ghost and the player being upset that they did not consent to that. I wonder, how prevalent is this expectation. Beside the poll, examples of expecting or not expecting consent would be interesting too.

Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/175ki1k/player_quit_because_a_ghost_made_him_old/

let us face it although subclasses are great and all they feel like they are running out of ideas for what can be put in a subclass sized box in my opinion do we want some new ones in principle?