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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest 7034872" data-source="post: 8694497">I completely agree with that. Between this kind of streamlining and the pursuit of detail and precision, for me it's always an act of balancing those two desiderata against each other and there'll always be meaningful sacrifices involved in any choice I make. It's also the case that my preferred style of play is not your preferred style and neither of ours quite matches up with Bob's preferred style (but you know--he's playing a bard, so we're just going to steamroll over anything he wants...<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    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />). Different people like different things in this game and one of the biggest things I like is the fact that different people like different things in this game, so each table will have its own by-compromise-and-consensus approach. That, I say, is all as it should be.Even in my own case, while I really like and admire Professor Dungeon Master's approach, I'm not adopting it whole hog. For instance, Saving Throws strike me as a place where greater precision on those d20 rolls becomes pretty important.<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">So often, a Saving Throw is an all-or-nothing proposition.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">There're a host of buffs and de-buffs out there to monkey with Saving Throws: players don't choose those abilities and spells idly.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The effects of these spells and abilities on a failed Saving Throw are typically much more dramatic and encounter-altering than a mere bunch of Hit Points.</li> </ol>For these reasons, I'll say, getting the exact adjusted roll right and comparing it against the caster's exact DC is too important to just say, "Eh. A 15 or a 16--what's the difference?" No, no--with so many Saving Throws it makes all the difference.But I still really, really like the Professor's advice and approach on not over-complicating things that don't really need it. There I'm with him.</blockquote>

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