D&D 5E do you still roll for damage?

[flametitan]

Depends on how many NPCs. If there's a mob, I'll just average it; if there's about less than 6, I'll roll.

 

[Horwath]

IF you have lots of mooks in a fight use average or just take one or two points of damage above or below average as you see fit for the tempo of combat or if it's too easy/hard for PCs.

As for rolling criticals with sneak attack or bucket load of d6/d8 for spells I tend to use only 3 to 4 dices for random factor and take the even number of the rest of the dices and use average.

I.E. if sneak attack crit deals 15d6+6 damage, I roll 3d6+48. you could roll 5d6+41 or 7d6+34 if you want more randomness.

 

[Caliburn101]

I always roll damage, and in nearly four decades of running games, I have never thought it slowed a game down, or had anyone else comment that they thought so. I find the whole average damage thing rather pointless as a result.

 

[Lanefan]

roll roll roll the dice
gently down the board
merrily merrily merrily merrily
all the hits I've scored

Lan-"having a hard time believing this is even a question"-efan

 

[Azurewraith]

If I can roll dice you bet I'm going to there's a reason I fell in love with white wolfs stuff.