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<blockquote data-quote="Brimshack" data-source="post: 3411929" data-attributes="member: 34694"><p>I once had a player who claimed to have the mathematical equivalent to Dyslexia. This was a new one, but no problem. What I asked her to do was to always tell me the die roll and the appropriate modifier at the same time. I could just add them in no time and we would be on with the game. When she remembered to do this, it worked great. Unfortunately, she often forgot, sometimes added them together and sometimes just gave me the die roll, etc. So, I never knew what any given number meant from her, and I always had to ask for clarification rather than simpy adding them up and moving on. To make matters worse, she often liked to exlain her problems which required that this among others had to actually be a problem from time to time, just to provide the topic of conversation for a minute or three. And finally she never learned the rules, so she never knew which modifiers were appropriate to any given roll. One of my players bought her a book as a gift to help, and she clearly never read it. In the end I concluded that she was simply unwilling to do anything for herself, and that our efforts to help her were little other than music to a passive aggresive ear. It was tiresome and frustrating to the point that I eventually gave up and stopped inviting her.</p><p></p><p>Now had her only problem been math, I still think the solution would work fine. The player still has to know enough of the rules to identify the correct modifiers. But if they can't do that, then math is not really the problem. The trick is to be consistent. Even f they suddenly realize they know the final number, they need to always say the two bonuses, so that you can both get used to the pattern enough to make it second nature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brimshack, post: 3411929, member: 34694"] I once had a player who claimed to have the mathematical equivalent to Dyslexia. This was a new one, but no problem. What I asked her to do was to always tell me the die roll and the appropriate modifier at the same time. I could just add them in no time and we would be on with the game. When she remembered to do this, it worked great. Unfortunately, she often forgot, sometimes added them together and sometimes just gave me the die roll, etc. So, I never knew what any given number meant from her, and I always had to ask for clarification rather than simpy adding them up and moving on. To make matters worse, she often liked to exlain her problems which required that this among others had to actually be a problem from time to time, just to provide the topic of conversation for a minute or three. And finally she never learned the rules, so she never knew which modifiers were appropriate to any given roll. One of my players bought her a book as a gift to help, and she clearly never read it. In the end I concluded that she was simply unwilling to do anything for herself, and that our efforts to help her were little other than music to a passive aggresive ear. It was tiresome and frustrating to the point that I eventually gave up and stopped inviting her. Now had her only problem been math, I still think the solution would work fine. The player still has to know enough of the rules to identify the correct modifiers. But if they can't do that, then math is not really the problem. The trick is to be consistent. Even f they suddenly realize they know the final number, they need to always say the two bonuses, so that you can both get used to the pattern enough to make it second nature. [/QUOTE]
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