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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vartan" data-source="post: 4913563" data-attributes="member: 26155">Okay, as I don my flame retardant suit I'd like to say that I love my dice as much as the next guy. Maybe more so. I love the way they look. I love the clackety-clack. I love rolling them. I love seeing that 20 pop up in the middle of the table where everybody can see it, and I love the cheers that follow. I had special 2E Ravenloft dice, dice specifically for Hobgoblins, and my 4E rogue has his own set of black dice. Lots of them, in fact, which is why I'm writing this post.(The following observation is based on a comparison of 2E and 4E, but this thread is about the use of dice in 4E, not the relative merits of any systems vis a vis the dice involved)When I played 2E you rolled one, maybe two dice for damage: the work of figuring out damage was in adding together all your bonuses, which was pretty easy to do before the dice hit the table. Thieves in 2E got a damage multiplier for backstabbing, and I'm pretty good at doing multiplication in my head.Now, when using a Daily power with Sneak Attack bonus my rogue deals 3d6 and 3d8 (backstabber feat), plus bonuses. I'm an admittedly poor mathematician, so it takes me more than a few seconds to add all these small dice results together. It seems like every class and many monsters now have "get out the bucket" dice counts for some of their damage rolls. I'm not the slowest player at my table but I like to keep the game moving, and it seems like combats would be more "fast-paced" if we didn't have to roll so many dice.Do ya'll agree with my observation and, if so, how would you feel about dice-rolling software at the table? I refer to the use of an iPhone, PDA, or even a laptop (although I'm not crazy about laptops at the table because of their size and shape).</blockquote>

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