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<blockquote data-quote="TikkchikFenTikktikk" data-source="post: 5180125" data-attributes="member: 67494"><p>I'm really enjoying playing D&D Encounters because it has introduced me to new people who play the game and they have shown me completely different styles of playing and DMing than I've encountered before.</p><p></p><p>One of those new styles comes from our DM. He is running the session the way I ran a group through the Descent board game. Extremely little role-playing. Box text disclaimed as "the zombies' defeat result in box text appearing in the room" and then being summarized as a bare coat of varnish to move the party to the next room.</p><p></p><p>This is not how anyone in my regular group DMs, including myself, and I initially found it off-putting.</p><p></p><p>But I'm getting my role-playing fix by increasing the amount of description I give to my gith monk's attacks and misses. I'm trying to talk to the antagonists and my team in the middle of combats. I'm spending down time during the week thinking up better catchphrases and signature moves rather than dwelling on back story. I'm rereading the flavor text of my powers and using it during the game. (Which has created a new pet-peeve of mine: why don't character builder power cards have the flavor text on them?!)</p><p></p><p>As a result, I'm really enjoying 4E combat for the first time and it's starting to rub off on my regular group. It doesn't feel like a grind anymore, and is turning into the cinematic experience WotC promised during the prelude to 4E's release.</p><p></p><p>Has anyone else had a similar experience? Is playing regularly with strangers changing your play style?</p><p></p><p>For the DMs: Is DMing regularly with strangers changing your DMing style? Are there some things you are seeing players do you've never seen or heard of before?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TikkchikFenTikktikk, post: 5180125, member: 67494"] I'm really enjoying playing D&D Encounters because it has introduced me to new people who play the game and they have shown me completely different styles of playing and DMing than I've encountered before. One of those new styles comes from our DM. He is running the session the way I ran a group through the Descent board game. Extremely little role-playing. Box text disclaimed as "the zombies' defeat result in box text appearing in the room" and then being summarized as a bare coat of varnish to move the party to the next room. This is not how anyone in my regular group DMs, including myself, and I initially found it off-putting. But I'm getting my role-playing fix by increasing the amount of description I give to my gith monk's attacks and misses. I'm trying to talk to the antagonists and my team in the middle of combats. I'm spending down time during the week thinking up better catchphrases and signature moves rather than dwelling on back story. I'm rereading the flavor text of my powers and using it during the game. (Which has created a new pet-peeve of mine: why don't character builder power cards have the flavor text on them?!) As a result, I'm really enjoying 4E combat for the first time and it's starting to rub off on my regular group. It doesn't feel like a grind anymore, and is turning into the cinematic experience WotC promised during the prelude to 4E's release. Has anyone else had a similar experience? Is playing regularly with strangers changing your play style? For the DMs: Is DMing regularly with strangers changing your DMing style? Are there some things you are seeing players do you've never seen or heard of before? [/QUOTE]
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