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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7974795" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I've never read it cover to cover, so I can't honestly pick the first one. However I weirdly seem to be more aware of a lot of the stuff actually in it than some people who have.</p><p></p><p>I suspect this is because I regularly dip back into it and read specific sections or entire chapters, rather than reading it once, assuming I "got it" and not going back unless I have to!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>One of the DMs I play 5E with has clearly taken this approach. And he's likes 5E, which is the funny thing. He tells me about how it's so much better for him than 4E and I'm thinking (not saying) "Well mate maybe that's because you don't actually know the rules and I have to keep explaining Diplomacy checks 'aren't a thing' in 5E and so on...", I basically have to act as sub-DM, because in the first couple of sessions he got the rules so spectacularly wrong (and like, even the casual players noticed) that he just refers people to me for a ruling now.</p><p></p><p>Read the damn PHB people. Also stop getting people to make checks constantly for no reason! I shouldn't have to make 6 Persuasion checks in the same conversation (roughly one per 1.5 sentences my character said), especially when I'm asking some fairly straightfoward questions and not actually trying to persuade the allegedly friendly NPC of anything!</p><p></p><p>(This is why I abhor people who leap on 1s on skill checks as "critical fails" btw - they're always same sort of people who want you to roll 3x more than is reasonable, making 1s vastly more likely!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 7974795, member: 18"] I've never read it cover to cover, so I can't honestly pick the first one. However I weirdly seem to be more aware of a lot of the stuff actually in it than some people who have. I suspect this is because I regularly dip back into it and read specific sections or entire chapters, rather than reading it once, assuming I "got it" and not going back unless I have to! One of the DMs I play 5E with has clearly taken this approach. And he's likes 5E, which is the funny thing. He tells me about how it's so much better for him than 4E and I'm thinking (not saying) "Well mate maybe that's because you don't actually know the rules and I have to keep explaining Diplomacy checks 'aren't a thing' in 5E and so on...", I basically have to act as sub-DM, because in the first couple of sessions he got the rules so spectacularly wrong (and like, even the casual players noticed) that he just refers people to me for a ruling now. Read the damn PHB people. Also stop getting people to make checks constantly for no reason! I shouldn't have to make 6 Persuasion checks in the same conversation (roughly one per 1.5 sentences my character said), especially when I'm asking some fairly straightfoward questions and not actually trying to persuade the allegedly friendly NPC of anything! (This is why I abhor people who leap on 1s on skill checks as "critical fails" btw - they're always same sort of people who want you to roll 3x more than is reasonable, making 1s vastly more likely!) [/QUOTE]
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