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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9620037" data-attributes="member: 50987">I tend to zone out during combat.&nbsp; Like you said, it's usually the same thing over and over again for four hours:&nbsp; move, press A, press B, end turn.&nbsp; The rest of the story is so much more interesting to me--exploring, talking to NPCs, disarming complicated traps, solving puzzles, figuring out who murdered the baron, that sort of thing--but alas, for every 30 minutes spent doing non-combat stuff like this, we have to sit through 2 hours of combat grind.&nbsp; It's like that old joke, &quot;Dungeons &amp; Dragons: thirty minutes of fun packed into four hours.&quot;I don't really have a fix for this.&nbsp; D&amp;D has always focused more on combat than anything else, and that isn't changing anytime soon.&nbsp; The best I can do is try to keep imagining what every small detail looks like, and try to find ways to describe my actions differently.I've heard folks say that a key to fixing this problem is to play a different game.&nbsp; If you usually run D&amp;D games, try to join a Call of Cthulhu gaming group, for example.&nbsp; If you're over-familiar with a game system, it can be hard to break out of that &quot;well here's what I would do instead&quot; mentality.&nbsp; So it could just be that you need a change of scenery?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 9620037, member: 50987"] I tend to zone out during combat. Like you said, it's usually the same thing over and over again for four hours: move, press A, press B, end turn. The rest of the story is so much more interesting to me--exploring, talking to NPCs, disarming complicated traps, solving puzzles, figuring out who murdered the baron, that sort of thing--but alas, for every 30 minutes spent doing non-combat stuff like this, we have to sit through 2 hours of combat grind. It's like that old joke, "Dungeons & Dragons: thirty minutes of fun packed into four hours." I don't really have a fix for this. D&D has always focused more on combat than anything else, and that isn't changing anytime soon. The best I can do is try to keep imagining what every small detail looks like, and try to find ways to describe my actions differently. I've heard folks say that a key to fixing this problem is to play a different game. If you usually run D&D games, try to join a [I]Call of Cthulhu [/I]gaming group, for example. If you're over-familiar with a game system, it can be hard to break out of that "well here's what I[I] would do [/I]instead" mentality. So it could just be that you need a change of scenery? [/QUOTE]

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