Recent content by Li Shenron

Guiding Light? 😁

Because people nowadays have a lot more competing hobbies and distractions, less patience and more difficulty staying engaged, so they need more stimulus to keep playing. Also, quick levelling and making new characters often means that character material is consumed fast, increasing the chances...

There is probably many more than these, but at least what comes to mind: 1) I used to grant individual XP based on personal player's performance (both in tactics/ideas and roleplay) - I realized this was wrong pretty quickly as one of the players in my first campaign was much better than the...

Ah yes the "common sense statistics", I suppose? I gamed with plenty of couples where both of them were gamers, or where the invited SO wasn't a gamer but was still totally OK to play with the others for a session or more. In fact, in the last few years I have been almost always gamed with my...

I think it's fine. There won't be much abuse if you control how many scrolls they can acquire, just don't make them craft their own.

It depends on your players' tastes, some people are just fine with killing an extra monsters to get the specific ingredient/item. Personally I'd rather try to make it more narrative, as the game already have plenty of combat anyway anytime you want, but having good narratives is more rare. I...

I think your review is a bit too D&D centric. Indeed the Wildspire minis are marketed as "DnD compatible" which IMHO sounds like a marketing ploy (are there even some fantasy minis which are "incompatible" with DnD, considering that 5e even has firearms rules?) so if they attract criticism for...

For me to call something an "RPG campaign", it needs multiple story arcs and finish lines, whether they run in a series or in parallel. Boundaries are blurry, but for me none of WotC modules are campaigns, but just long adventures. More specifically, "long" for players but short for characters...

It's quite difficult to do such exercise because "feel" is different for different people. For me, the two biggest feel factors are character classes and combat rules. But I think for you it might be everything else. So if you use 1e classes and 1e combat rules, am I playing 5e with 1e feel...

Simple answer for simple question: 20 years. That is a rough rounded number that I noticed it often works for me an all medias (movies, music, games...).

I hear you... There are probably going to be similar problems everywhere, for example in music. It won't be difficult in the near future to dynamically create "on the fly" songs generated and performed by AI, given a prompt in the form of song's topic, genre, mood, sound etc. Then probably...

Yes. I prefer the clarity and honesty of a new edition. Whether I would like such edition or not is another matter. I detest the idea of "patching" an edition.

Interesting topic... considering that we can use AI to generate RPG content for our own use, if publishers are now going to use AI too then the question becomes, why would we still need publishers?

I value novelty a lot in passive fiction (books, movies, music), but in an active game I don't think I need much of it.

Maybe because it's an action defined under "actions in combat", and otherwise mentioned only either in combat or chase situations?