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<blockquote data-quote="Abulia" data-source="post: 2379957" data-attributes="member: 8162">You, dear sir, are right on target.When I run D&amp;D I do everything I can to be &quot;fair.&quot; That means following the rules for all the players. That also means being consistent and ensuring that the NPCs and monsters also follow the rules. Not because I'm a slave to the rules, mostly because D&amp;D is so insanely intertwined and &quot;balanced&quot; that hand-waving one little thing aside can have huge repercussions.Trust? There's plenty of that at my gaming table. What I don't have plenty of is time. I'm sick of 3 hour D&amp;D combats that cover 5 rounds. Haven't seen a player take his character from 1 to 12 and still not know what his total bonus to hit in melee is? I have, regularly.Mostly, the past few D&amp;D games have had stacks of books on the table, with people constantly flipping through them, trying to make sure they know what spell they're going to cast will do what, or looking up that last feat selection. There's so much rules metagaming going on (&quot;use two hands; better damage curve!&quot;) that the storytelling/game aspect is nigh forgotten. Game prep is a statistical orgasm of numbers that makes me want to claw my eyes out.YMMV, of course. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&quot;This homespun wisdom sucks.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Abulia, post: 2379957, member: 8162"] You, dear sir, are right on target. When I run D&D I do everything I can to be "fair." That means following the rules for all the players. That also means being consistent and ensuring that the NPCs and monsters [b]also[/b] follow the rules. Not because I'm a slave to the rules, mostly because D&D is so insanely intertwined and "balanced" that hand-waving one little thing aside can have huge repercussions. Trust? There's plenty of that at my gaming table. What I don't have plenty of is time. I'm sick of 3 hour D&D combats that cover 5 rounds. Haven't seen a player take his character from 1 to 12 and [b]still[/b] not know what his total bonus to hit in melee is? I have, regularly. Mostly, the past few D&D games have had [b]stacks[/b] of books on the table, with people constantly flipping through them, trying to make sure they know what spell they're going to cast will do what, or looking up that last feat selection. There's so much rules metagaming going on ("use two hands; better damage curve!") that the [i]storytelling/game[/i] aspect is nigh forgotten. Game prep is a statistical orgasm of numbers that makes me want to claw my eyes out. YMMV, of course. :D "This homespun wisdom sucks." [/QUOTE]

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