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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7758512" data-attributes="member: 6796661">I'll readily admit that I may be only a passable to mediocre DM. I'm certainly no Chris Perkins or Matt Mercer. Well, Chris Perkins will read from the boxed text, but he wrote it, does he get a pass?But, in this mediocre DM's opinion, sometimes the boxed text is cool. Sometimes it contains detailed clues that to impart without reading the text would basically require rewriting it. I'll also say as a player that more annoying than a pulseless reading of the boxed text is the DM who is winging it. Who avoids the boxed text and then has to go back part way through an encounter and to point out things s/he forgot to mention or retcon to make up for missed details. Boxed text is a tool to be used, or not, at the DM's discretion and which can be abused. I posit that using or not using boxed text isn't an indicator of good DM, but rather how the DM presents the room, with or without the boxed text. By making use of boxed text one of the &quot;worst&quot; things a DM can do, you risk creating more DMs with lack of awareness of their own poor improv and descriptive abilities ignoring it to their and their player's detriment.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 7758512, member: 6796661"] I'll readily admit that I may be only a passable to mediocre DM. I'm certainly no Chris Perkins or Matt Mercer. Well, Chris Perkins will read from the boxed text, but he wrote it, does he get a pass? But, in this mediocre DM's opinion, sometimes the boxed text is cool. Sometimes it contains detailed clues that to impart without reading the text would basically require rewriting it. I'll also say as a player that more annoying than a pulseless reading of the boxed text is the DM who is winging it. Who avoids the boxed text and then has to go back part way through an encounter and to point out things s/he forgot to mention or retcon to make up for missed details. Boxed text is a tool to be used, or not, at the DM's discretion and which can be abused. I posit that using or not using boxed text isn't an indicator of good DM, but rather how the DM presents the room, with or without the boxed text. By making use of boxed text one of the "worst" things a DM can do, you risk creating more DMs with lack of awareness of their own poor improv and descriptive abilities ignoring it to their and their player's detriment. [/QUOTE]

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