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<blockquote data-quote="koesherbacon" data-source="post: 6138669" data-attributes="member: 78297">This vent is to both DMs and players out there.&nbsp; I just need to <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kvetch" target="_blank">kvetch</a>.&nbsp; If anybody has had similar experiences, maybe they need to vent as well.Ever have one of those sessions where nothing really went right and nobody really had any fun?I had one today and even after hours I feel more bummed about it than I thought I would.&nbsp; We had 3 new players today, which made the group quite large but 2 of my old players are going to be moving to a different city relatively soon.&nbsp; I wanted to add the new players before the others left so the current group could get to know the new players before the others left.Now I don't think that was the majority of the problem, though it did contribute.&nbsp; I do know that having 7 players made combat encounters take longer than usual.&nbsp; Of course, the new players to the group were just getting used to their level 13 characters which made it take even longer.Now even though combat took longer than usual, the majority of the problem was people using their computers at the table.&nbsp; I know that it took a while to get to each of their turns, but, I can't stand when people are playing on Facebook and whatever during the game.&nbsp; I'm going to make a rule next time that DND is a distraction-free-zone where computers and smartphones are to be left off unless they're looking something up, using a calculator, using a dice app, or using an app to keep track of their characters.I hate, and I mean hate, when I'm playing (either as a DM or player) and somebody looks up from their computer during their turn and asks, &quot;Wait, what happened?&quot; I hate it even more when, after explaining everything's that's happened between their last turn and current turn they say something to another player like, &quot;Wait, you shouldn't have done that... If you X, Y &amp; Z instead I can U, V &amp; W.&nbsp; That way (s)he could have R,S &amp;T!&nbsp; I can't believe they didn't do that.&nbsp; Can we go back?&quot;AAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!NO WE CAN'T GO BACK!&nbsp; YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT HAPPENED IF YOU WERE PAYING THE SLIGHTEST ATTENTION!&nbsp; So, other than outlawing the use of computers, smartphones and other distractions is there anything I can do that could have made our session more fun?&nbsp; Or was it just one of those sessions?Thanks for listening.&nbsp; Like I said, I just needed to kvetch.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="koesherbacon, post: 6138669, member: 78297"] This vent is to both DMs and players out there. I just need to [URL="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kvetch"]kvetch[/URL]. If anybody has had similar experiences, maybe they need to vent as well. Ever have one of those sessions where nothing really went right and nobody really had any fun? I had one today and even after hours I feel more bummed about it than I thought I would. We had 3 new players today, which made the group quite large but 2 of my old players are going to be moving to a different city relatively soon. I wanted to add the new players before the others left so the current group could get to know the new players before the others left. Now I don't think that was the majority of the problem, though it did contribute. I do know that having 7 players made combat encounters take longer than usual. Of course, the new players to the group were just getting used to their level 13 characters which made it take even longer. Now even though combat took longer than usual, the majority of the problem was people using their computers at the table. I know that it took a while to get to each of their turns, but, I can't stand when people are playing on Facebook and whatever during the game. I'm going to make a rule next time that DND is a distraction-free-zone where computers and smartphones are to be left off unless they're looking something up, using a calculator, using a dice app, or using an app to keep track of their characters. I hate, and I mean [B]hate[/B], when I'm playing (either as a DM or player) and somebody looks up from their computer during their turn and asks, [I]"Wait, what happened?" [/I]I hate it even more when, after explaining everything's that's happened between their last turn and current turn they say something to another player like, [I]"Wait, you shouldn't have done that... If you X, Y & Z instead I can U, V & W. That way (s)he could have R,S &T! I can't believe they didn't do that. Can we go back?"[/I] [B][SIZE=4]AAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH! [/SIZE][/B][B]NO WE CAN'T GO BACK! [/B][B]YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT HAPPENED IF YOU WERE PAYING THE SLIGHTEST ATTENTION! [/B] So, other than outlawing the use of computers, smartphones and other distractions is there anything I can do that could have made our session more fun? Or was it just one of [I]those[/I] sessions? Thanks for listening. Like I said, I just needed to kvetch. [/QUOTE]

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