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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9425558" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah my experience is exactly the same. I don't think there's any particular difference. Some players just don't turn up knowing how to play, but like, that's how it's been since literally the 1980s and I suppose the 1970s before that. If anything, my experience is that since online tools, players have significantly more knowledge of what exact abilities and spells their character actually has. And how those spells/abilities actually work.Now super-new players, sure, not so much. But like players who in previous editions (particularly before 4E, which had the DDI to much the same effect as Beyond), just like, didn't actually know how stuff worked, or were really surprised that they had Spell X or Ability Y, even though they'd pencilled it on to their character sheet some weeks before, those have changed. Now they often check their character between sessions, rather than it being in a folder at my house or their backpack or w/e, they just log in and browse idly and see things they can do.I also find people levelling up between sessions really cool, and without the time-pressure of levelling up in a session, I think people tend to make better, more informed choices (and not usually ones from guides, in my experience), or just choices they like better because they really understand those choices.</blockquote>