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That would explain a lot.

As you asked about speed and not my preference, it really depends. Assuming predrawn maps, I'd say its a wash with most groups. Now personally, I vastly prefer maps even if it is slower. Rushing through one of the key aspects of the game as fast as can be seems odd to me. No one ever says...

Its fun for the players who choose it. 5e combat is already blazingly fast. Its important to remember- they can only reroll once. That second roll stays, even if it is a 1 or 2. Its not like brutal in 4e. Changing a d10 great weapon to a d8+2 increases its power. Leave as is.

Kind of sort of but not technically. Those game/nerd stuff sections up front in Walmart, Target, or what have you are actually unnamed kiosks for other companies. They pay to stock that stuff on their "own" shelves in a prominent place by the registers. That's why the employees of those...

Kind of sort of but not technically. Those game/nerd stuff sections up front in Walmart, Target, or what have you are actually unnamed kiosks for other companies. They pay to stock that stuff on their "own" shelves in a prominent place by the registers. That's why the employees of those...

Absolutely. The question is just what kind of trust.

I find that very interesting, and to me not D&D at all. I wonder if its more common in games whose players/DMs are running the same version of D&D tney hace pkayed for decades. The assumption being by now everyone knows the stats of a kobold.

I meant the exact monster they are fighting, not looking at a Monster Manual in general. Do you let them look at your customer monsters as they are fighting them, so they can see its powers, defenses, HPs, etc?

I didn't impy there was. My meaning was that unless you show your players all "DM only stuff "at all times, they can't be sure you're not fudging.

I prefer more mystery than that myself.

Do you let them look at the stats of the monsters they are currently in combat with?

Sometimes pure randomness ends up clicking together into a perfect moment of excitement, I don't think anyone would deny that. I'm curious, do you allow the players to look at the monster stats while you're playing? Do you tell them how many HP the monsters are currently at? Do you tell them...

I don't think the spells are useless in and of themselves, but the class design overall is very clunky (even though the paladin is very powerful.)

Is playing and DMing the same thing?

Do people actually consider that a game though? I honestly don't know. I don't know if I ever even met someone who's played in a game like that. So the DMs if those games have any judicial discretion? I would argue playing verbatim through a D&D module isn't either DMing or D&D.

Very true. But even then both players are on equal footing by the rules as written. Which is what makes chess a real game to me. If one player chooses to take it easy, that's a personal choice independent of the game. D&D no matter how you play it, whether its me DMing or Exploder Wizard, is...

I think that D&D is a soft game, like playing a pickup game of whiffle ball at a family BBQ. As opposed to a hard or real game, like say chess.

Empty air and average fantasy rooftops might be the easiest things to grid.

I have done those. I guess designing grid play isnt your strong suit then. I myself am terrible at NPC voices.

This is a perfect explination of why the DM is not playing a game.