But stabilizing a pc with a bonus look so cool that it may become the new standard.
Drinking a potion with a bonus action become enough popular that the rule change for that.
Putting pressure on players in a RPG is almost a fake.
Players are not at risk, they are seated comfortably with beer and pretzel and have a good time.
Players can play along and pretend that their characters are in a life or death situation.
Then choose to roleplay an heroic, pragmatic or...
Sometime I think that those dump stat would not be a concern if 8 was having a 0 bonus
-1 on initiative, or wis saves is bad, but not not that much compare to a 0 or even +1 bonus.
I see players often dump str or dex.
Even dex can be dump if you plan to wear heavy armor.
So there is two stat that are not dump to 8 : Wis and Con
Can we nerf them instead?
I can’t tell about future success of DnD,
But DC20 can succeed ( and already have considering the 2M kickstarter) and that won’t change at all the fate of DnD .
I agree monsters should make sense, for the game.
Otherwise monsters should have a collection of flaws.
Jealous and suspicious of each other’s , coward, short view, miss informed, superstitious, and so on.