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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Festivus" data-source="post: 4432090" data-attributes="member: 34532">Using a computer helps a lot too for higher level stuff in terms of both generating bad guys (monsterforge for example) and running combats. My biggest problem is that you have so many choices as a player or a DM in combat, plus the number of attacks anyone is given.  Add to this the random number of buffs and christmas tree magic items and voila, takes a long time to figure out things. I have taken to using a computer to do die rolls for the bad guys because it's way faster than adding up 25 dice on the table per attack, times 5 attacks.  It helps a little but not enough to convince me that I will never take a 3.5 game beyond 12th level again.</blockquote>