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<blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 3340424" data-attributes="member: 18701">Hey, thanks for the critique! The reason I would rather mention what they see &quot;as they glance around&quot; in box-text is because I don't want to beat around the bush. Rather than spend game time dealing with players telling me, &quot;I look around, what do I see?&quot; I cut to the chase and just tell them important visuals they would obviously see around them. I don't see it as controlling their actions since I assume people look around rather than stare at the ground (unless a woman in a red dress walks by...then I assume all eyes are on her). If I have an important visual in the area, it's going to waste a lot of game time if I have to provoke the PC's into simply looking over in a general direction or wait for them to tell me they &quot;look around&quot;. I see box text as a way to eliminate unnecessary player/DM interaction and get to the good stuff. I kind of disagree that box text causes people to sit around doing nothing. The biggest part of D&amp;D is using your imagination. Just because you're not physically moving your arms or your mouth at the table doesn't mean you're not doing anything. When a DM reads a description to me, my imagination is doing something &amp; I'm not bored at all unless his description is bad&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> I realize it's just a difference in playstyle though. I have had a player that would mouth off in the middle of me describing a scene because he didn't care...he just wanted to roll dice and fight something.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oryan77, post: 3340424, member: 18701"] Hey, thanks for the critique! The reason I would rather mention what they see "as they glance around" in box-text is because I don't want to [i]beat around the bush[/i]. Rather than spend game time dealing with players telling me, "I look around, what do I see?" I cut to the chase and just tell them important visuals they would obviously see around them. I don't see it as controlling their actions since I assume people look around rather than stare at the ground (unless a woman in a red dress walks by...then I assume all eyes are on her). If I have an important visual in the area, it's going to waste a lot of game time if I have to provoke the PC's into simply looking over in a general direction or wait for them to tell me they "look around". I see box text as a way to eliminate unnecessary player/DM interaction and get to the good stuff. I kind of disagree that box text causes people to sit around doing nothing. The biggest part of D&D is using your imagination. Just because you're not physically moving your arms or your mouth at the table doesn't mean you're not doing anything. When a DM reads a description to me, my imagination is doing something & I'm not bored at all unless his description is bad :p I realize it's just a difference in playstyle though. I have had a player that would mouth off in the middle of me describing a scene because he didn't care...he just wanted to roll dice and fight something. [/QUOTE]

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