Recent content by Li Shenron

I don't use DDB but I think this is a good decision.

I very much prefer "self-made" heroes. I accept that there is some starting advantages in ability scores but IMO 5e already goes too far with that.

I like the partner/chorus spells idea. I've seen attempts in the past at rules for multiple spellcasters casting a spell together (circle spells? group rituals?) but then you'd need multiple PCs choosing the same spell if not the same class, and I think it ends up used as an occasional NPC thing...

I played a couple of Wizards with low Int. In some older editions they would be impossible because of minimum Int score to cast spells at all, but there isn't such limitation in 5e. If you build the Wizard around spells that don't require an attack or offer a save (so mostly a defensive/utility...

As a DM, I don't do pacing. The players set the pace with their behaviour. Most of the times, the people I played with liked meticulous investigations, tactical combats and social interaction, and I don't see the need to fast-forward something they enjoy. Only if I see the whole group stuck...

It sounds like you want to run the Ethereal Plane "by the book", but is it different across settings and editions. I still use the 3.0 Manual of the Planes as a starting point (the 5e DMG has much less information, some of it actually copy-pasted verbatim from the 3.0 MotP), but after running...

I recently got a new 2014 PHB and it says 18th printing.

I don't think so. Speed and complexity are real but what I think is, that it is very subjective that all those features are negative aspects in a game, for anyone, which is kind of what your thread title claims... although you did say the title was click-bait. Some people can definitely prefer...

I am not familiar with the differences between 1e and 2e, but I have to say that these (other than maybe the first one) do not sound objective but subjective. Which means, to someone else the preferences may be simply reversed.

In Forgotten Realms years, that's probably just one or two editions or revisions away.

I think that is both RAW and RAI. By RAW, nothing stops a character from taking a feat that grants a benefit they already have. And by RAW, the score limit still applies. By RAI, the player wanted to max out a score already at level 1, and dumped some other score in the process. The game...

Great idea also to make downtime more interesting!

Definitely Lego Sandbox. I see a sandbox as a collection of scattered elements: locations, NPCs, creatures, objects and stories. Without stories to hook onto, I fear the "No Man's Sky effect", the famous MMORPG which first hit with its immense amount of content, and then disappointed because...

I don't want psionics.

It's not an official rule but 5.0 DMG definitely mentions the possibility of treating 1 as a critical failure and 20 as a critical success. In addition, it also mentions you can treat a near-miss* (failure by 1 or 2) or hitting the DC exactly as a success with a setback, and failing by 5 or more...