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<blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 4603598" data-attributes="member: 4">Having been on the player's side of the table with a fairly high level spellcaster, I can say it's not as easy as it sounds. Even when I think I have done a good job of recording the info, a month later it doesn't always make as much sense as it did at the time.&nbsp; Particularly spells that are still in effect - how many rounds/minutes do I have left, that sort of thing - I'm terrible myself about getting that recorded.&nbsp; And my players are as bad as me when I'm on the DM side of the table. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The other thing is that games always seem to go a little later than planned, and at the end everyone jumps up and runs out - I probably do need to try to build in 5-10 min for record keeping at the end for the players as well as for myself.&nbsp; There have been many times when I was DMing that I just said at the start of a session, &quot;Hey, I don't know exactly where we were last time in terms of spells, hit points, effects, etc, so let's just say you have all your HP back and all of your spells back and we'll go from there.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EricNoah, post: 4603598, member: 4"] Having been on the player's side of the table with a fairly high level spellcaster, I can say it's not as easy as it sounds. Even when I think I have done a good job of recording the info, a month later it doesn't always make as much sense as it did at the time. Particularly spells that are still in effect - how many rounds/minutes do I have left, that sort of thing - I'm terrible myself about getting that recorded. And my players are as bad as me when I'm on the DM side of the table. :) The other thing is that games always seem to go a little later than planned, and at the end everyone jumps up and runs out - I probably do need to try to build in 5-10 min for record keeping at the end for the players as well as for myself. There have been many times when I was DMing that I just said at the start of a session, "Hey, I don't know exactly where we were last time in terms of spells, hit points, effects, etc, so let's just say you have all your HP back and all of your spells back and we'll go from there." [/QUOTE]

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