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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 4429986" data-attributes="member: 2011">This is important why? Why is slowing up the game to ask the PC's defense a lot a GOOD way to play?And, my way does not preclude the DM asking the player his defense. It precludes the player asking the DM "How much was I hit by?".This happens anyway, even with your preferred set of rules. The player has to take out the time to make the decision anyway (a minor attack early in the encounter might or might not be important to block).Funny. That is not annoying to my DM who keeps track of PC defenses all of the time and has since day one. I could see where a given DM does not want to know the defenses of his players, but that wastes game time asking.Which is annoying. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />A matter of opinion. The poor entitled player does not know everything. boo hoo <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/cry.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":.-(" title="Cry    :.-(" data-shortname=":.-(" />This corner case is mostly irrelevent to the conversation. The number of Wizard template monsters is extremely low in most campaigns. The Wizard gets to use Shield hundreds of times. The monsters in most campaigns hardly get to use it at all.This is hardly a serious advantage for the monsters (who btw don't care anyway). And, it assumes that the DM takes advantage of this metagaming information for his monsters.You seem to be picking at very small straws here.</blockquote>

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