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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 3413393" data-attributes="member: 41321">Somebody's said it already, but a calculator can work wonders.  Or simply scratch paper and patience.  If you have somebody in the group who can add two numbers with no effort, just get your other players say out their roll and their modifier, like "eleven plus seventeen" and have the designated adder report the result.Personally, I love math.  Algebra, geometry, calculus and physics were some of my best subjects at school.  I cannot, for the life of me, add two-digit numbers in my head quickly.  I believe in my case it's a memory problem, or could be related to ADD.  I cannot manage to keep the two numbers in my head long enough to add them.  When I get one digit of the sum I've already lost the numbers I'm trying to add.  If they're written down in front of me I do so much better, but doing them quickly in my head is pretty much impossible.I find I get better with practice.  For a little while I enjoyed <a href="http://www.dokakuro.com/" target="_blank">Kakuro</a>, which is kinda like a cross between crossword puzzles and sudoku, and it involves a lot of simple math.  I could play it faster with scratch paper, but if I denied myself that I found that I got faster at adding the numbers as I went.  If your "non-mathematically inclined" player is willing, you could suggest the game to him/her as a way to practice.  It also could be that simply playing D&D and adding up the rolls will get easier as time goes by.I don't think that an inability to add numbers fast in one's head should in any way detract people from playing the game.  If that's what scares them, give them a calculator and don't make fun of them for using it.</blockquote>

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