D&D General A Venn Diagram Poll About D&D

[Lanefan]

Back in the day there were times when our lot was pretty much E.

These days, more like B; as an average of many sessions of A plus a few C or D sessions tossed in once in a while.

 

[Lanefan]

A - if somebody needs to look up a spell or what have you, they do it on their phone in their own time. If it is your turn in combat and you don't know the particulars of a spell by then, you can't cast it that turn.

I read the poll as referring to more major discussions than that e.g. hammering out houserule ideas or discussing possible system kitbashes, that sort of thing.

 

[guachi]

My experience with 5e has a DM has generally been players who know the rules well and don't need to discuss them and players who don't know the rules but trust that I as DM do.

So most of the rules discussion is at the start when I going over house rules or explaining (vice discussing as it's really a one way street) some 5e rule to a player. And then it won't really need to go over it again. So it's C-ish trending towards B-ish.

Full-blown rules discussions are almost entirely online.

 

[aco175]

A - if somebody needs to look up a spell or what have you, they do it on their phone in their own time. If it is your turn in combat and you don't know the particulars of a spell by then, you can't cast it that turn.

But as the DM, I get a free pass. I asked a player to look up a spell last night during play.

 

[Bardic Dave]

I’m struggling to understand these diagrams; I feel there are several different ways to interpret them. Can you clarify what you intended? For instance, should diagram E be interpreted to mean “literally every second of the game is spent discussing rules”?

I’m definitely overthinking this!

 

[Asisreo]

For reference, I do B or C but lean to B. If its a group of new players, its C by necessity. If its my usual group(s), its B by efficiency.

 

[CleverNickName]

I read the poll as referring to more major discussions than that e.g. hammering out houserule ideas or discussing possible system kitbashes, that sort of thing.

It's deliberately open-ended for interpretation. Nothing wrong with voting according to this criteria.

 

[Gradine]

I usually play with new players, so there are times where I'll have to describe/remind them about their abilities.

But in general my DM strategy is "Yes, and."

 

[J.Quondam]

Where's the circle for "potato chips vs doritos arguments"?

 

[EzekielRaiden]

In every edition I've played--and I've played almost all of them at least a little, if you allow Labyrinth Lord to count in place of the edition it retrocloned--it's been somewhere between B and C, generally closer to C. And yes, this includes both 4e and 5e. 3e/PF is probably the worst, sometimes verging up into the D range. So many exceptions and counter-cases.

Though if I'm being realistic, the red circle should always be bigger than the blue circle. I can discuss the mechanics of the game for hours and hours whenever I like, because of the Internet. I get (maybe) six to eight hours of gaming in a week, and that only when I actually have multiple games to play in. If you limit things only to when I have multiple concurrent games...then maybe they're about equal, not sure.

(Math Nerd moment: Properly speaking, B, C, and D are all equivalent in terms of Venn diagrams, which simply show which relations between sets exist, not the relative "sizes" of those relations: A says the union of blue and red is empty, E says their disjunctive union is empty, B/C/D all say neither of those is empty. I'm not aware of any diagram that shows the relative sizes of sets, though, so it's not a bad shorthand, as long as it's clear what you mean by it.)