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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scurvy_Platypus" data-source="post: 5513347" data-attributes="member: 43283">Actually, no not every complaint is "math is hard". Most of the complaints are "it's a pain in the ass to do this". There's a difference. People like myself aren't stupid, we don't feel like having to go through and recalculate stuff. It might not bother you, you might like doing it, whatever.Honestly, no. Not everyone actually does bother memorizing every single little thing on their sheet. I know it's shocking, but there you have it. Sometimes, the people playing D&D? They're not hardcore. The figure this stuff out every 13 or 14 sessions at level up when they have to and they don't think about it again.Additionally, if you happen to play a fighter like I frequently do, you've got things like Power Attack already figured out. So that way during play, instead of having to calculate everything every time you use Power Attack (and then have to deal with the hardcore player whining about "why isn't this already pre-calculated?!?!?" or "Why do you always have to redo the math, it's obvious!!!") we just look down at the appropriate line for the weapon, and we know everything we need to with Weapon Specialization and Weapon Focus and everything else all nice and ready. Ability damage comes along and then we then have to stop and refigure those calculations.I have experienced problems with this in multiple groups; both as a GM and as a player. I've known a number of GMs that just won't use certain creatures or spells for that reason as well. The fact that you've never experienced the problem doesn't mean it doesn't exist.</blockquote>

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