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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zaruthustran" data-source="post: 3315582" data-attributes="member: 1457">Totally agree from a playing experience point of view. D&D and WoW don't compete for the same Experience satisfaction, but they do compete for the same pool of limited resources. Say you work a 9-5, M-F job. You've got about 60 hours of free time per week. You can spend that however you want. If WoW takes up 20 hours, that leaves only 40 hours for your kids, your mate, movies, TV, D&D, working on your house, cooking, eating, whatever. All those leisure activities satisfy different needs but they all consume the same thing: hours. I brought up WoW not to say that its better or worse or the same as D&D, but to say that many people choose to spend their limited hours on that experience because it's a more efficient use of entertainment time. In a typical 4-hour D&D session, how much time is spent actually playing? Cut out looking up spells, computing your character sheet, leveling up your guy, and most of all designing dungeons on paper, and you've got... what, 30 minutes of actual play per hour at the table? 45? One could argue that flipping through rule books and arguing is an essential part of D&D. That's fine, people who like that sort of thing can keep playing that way. But I'd much rather  use an online tool to take away as much BS work as possible, so my buddies and I can spend our most precious resource--time--in the most enjoyable way possible.-z</blockquote>