This is just a bit of a rant.
It absolutely kills me when players can't be bothered to learn even the basics of their characters, the game rules or (in this case) the VTT. And I don't mean new players that haven't engaged in RPG before. I mean players with decades of experience in general and at least a dozen sessions in this game alone. First of all, it slows the game to crawl when they can't figure out what button to click to roll to hit, or how to target enemy tokens and that sort of thing. More than that, though, watching them make suboptimal choices and then get frustrated with the outcome because they didn't know (just by way of example) that their rogue could use Cunning Action.
I know that for some, playing in a regular game is more about being able to hang out with friends, but come one -- at least learn the basics of your character and the VTT software.
Related: if you don't know the game and don't want to learn the game or even read your spells before you try and cast them, save us all the frustration and play a Champion Fighter instead, huh?
It absolutely kills me when players can't be bothered to learn even the basics of their characters, the game rules or (in this case) the VTT. And I don't mean new players that haven't engaged in RPG before. I mean players with decades of experience in general and at least a dozen sessions in this game alone. First of all, it slows the game to crawl when they can't figure out what button to click to roll to hit, or how to target enemy tokens and that sort of thing. More than that, though, watching them make suboptimal choices and then get frustrated with the outcome because they didn't know (just by way of example) that their rogue could use Cunning Action.
I know that for some, playing in a regular game is more about being able to hang out with friends, but come one -- at least learn the basics of your character and the VTT software.
Related: if you don't know the game and don't want to learn the game or even read your spells before you try and cast them, save us all the frustration and play a Champion Fighter instead, huh?