Poll: Monte and Sean's Ghostwalk Book

[Arnwyn]

Not even remotely interested. And the names mean little to me (don't like Reynolds, and Cook is hit-and-miss).

 

[DaveMage]

It's been billed as something "new" so hopefully it will be much more than ghosts as PCs.

After all, "Requiem" for 2E Ravenloft had rules on playing undead PCs, so hopefully it's more than just a 3E update of that.

 

[Dinkeldog]

I'll most likely pick it up. It would have to get a pretty bad slate of reviews to change my mind.

 

[Ranes]

I'm undecided. I certainly want to see it. As with any book, it might provide usefully steal-able ideas. I doubt very much I would DM a campaign with ghost PCs (even non-MM ghost PCs), much less want to play in such a campaign. (Me? Play? Shurely shome mishtake?)

As for the authors, I think Monte Cook has merit but Sean Reynolds has yet to convince me. Still, I'm looking forward to it; from the little I've heard, the concept sounds intruiging.

 

[Graf]

The dead-PC problem is one that's plagued D&D for a while. The solution (especially in 3e) is to make it hard to kill people (healing, deaths door) and easy to bring them back.

Which is fine. But the fact that the wealthy and the well connected can return to life basically whenever has a lot of weird game-world repercussions that aren't really reflected in most published settings (I can't think of any really).

I'm mildly surprised that people could find the book "totally boring". There isn't much that's more of a universal thing than Death. One's own mortality (and that of your friends, family, etc) is the kind of thing that everyone has to deal with in one way or another.
(Not saying, if it's not clear, that you should like the book. Just that I don't see how the topic could be borning.)

 

[FireLance]

I think it would be a great resource for DMs who run the occasional one-on-one campaign. Now you can keep the game going after the character dies.