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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9619958" data-attributes="member: 7006">At some point I think the DM just needs to man up and deal with it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Sometimes the DM just has to risk the "oh-so-difficult" situation of sliding 24 counters across a grid every half-dozen sessions just so that the Wizard who loves fireball actually gets a chance to decimate enemies with it.  I know that can be a hardship for some people [sarcasm intended] but at some point it is not inappropriate to ask the DM to every once in a while to work a little harder if they want to create exciting or different challenges for their players.  That's what the job is.Somehow we have DMs that seem perfectly happy with putting together and running high-level games with monsters that have piles upon piles of different features and abilities plus reacting to the players who have the same... and yet we also have DMs that think sliding two dozen tokens of 4 HP monsters across a grid is like asking them to having their teeth pulled.  It's kind of silly in my opinion.</blockquote>