Recent content by Li Shenron

I am fairly neutral. Dice with unusual number of faces or non-numeric results can aid certain things, but in terms of probability and random results, they aren't strictly necessary and can always be emulated with regular dice. Snowflake dice neither impress me nor annoy me.

I had to vote "D&D is dead to me" because I'm long off the hook with the edition by now, so I am unlikely to purchase any new book. But if I'm going to buy anything, it's definitely going to be settings books, because I'm done with players material until 7e (I don't play half editions, and...

Yes but it's been a very long time... I think last time was The City of the Spider Queen campaign in 3e, where all PCs were Drow. However, I don't really consider that a "monsters campaign", in fact Drow became fully playable creatures in the 5e PHB. It's a preference, but what I would call a...

My favourite would be ability score damage, because it's simple to track in 5e (compared to other editions) and still gives enough variety. Temporary or permanent? While the word "permanent" is very scary for PCs, in practice it would always mean "permanent until cured". Temporary gives more...

Most often (and vastly so, like at least 90% of the times) it's been at the DM's place for me, whoever the DM was.

I don't have any problems, if we're talking about reasonable differences, not 10 levels. A 3-level spread has been OK in all editions I've played.

This is an old thread but full of great inspirational ideas, thanks!

I believe ghosts exist in the Monster Manual, they are there in practically every editions, it's a fact.

Completely independent games for me.

It's all about the expectations. If you expect a scientific-solid movie and get a fantasy one, you'll be disappointed. If you expect a fantasy movie and get a scientific-solid one, you'll be disappointed as well. IMDB is ruined by plenty of zero/low-grade reviews by people who "I thought it was...

I should have mentioned Misfits of Science too!

I thought nobody remembered that... I actually just rewatched a couple of episodes (from an old VHS! I am not sure they ever released this TV series on DVD/BRay) at a family re-union. The production and special FX are a bit sub-par, but I actually still think many of the episodes stories were...

Sounds like they couldn't think of anything more interesting than helping the single PC not to die, and to beat a few more checks. If I had a single player wanting to play the game, I'll let them play multiple PCs, maybe 3 at once. This way at least the game still offers a range of...

Nothing has changed over the last 51 years. There is hardly anything RAW that makes sense after a large enough amount of scrutiny and reality checks. A game rule is supposed to be usable, not perfect, and realistic only up to a certain level, but as players keep looking purposefully at...

Sounds great. My experience was not that great tho... A couple of months ago I asked Copilot to create an adventure and run it for me as a player, directing it to use the latest D&D SRD for any resolution of challenges. Character creation (only one PC) seemed to go very smoothly, although it...