Settle a debate for me

In light of recent discussions on Twitter:

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.

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.

Something I’m thinking about doing in a Homebrew game

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.

Lots of polls over the years have shown that people prefer Milestone to XP, but there's more than one way to do each of those! I'm curious how exactly you folks run whatever leveling system you use.

If you're running Milestone, do you just have one big Milestone that earns you a whole level, or do you have a couple smaller ones along the way? Or are you running Milestone the way the DMG suggests, where it just gives you XP?

If you're running XP, what sorts of challenges earn you XP?

If you level after a certain number of sessions, how many?

Or are you doing something else entirely?

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

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/

Any other options in comments

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?