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<blockquote data-quote="Afrodyte" data-source="post: 5314078" data-attributes="member: 8713">I can see where the OP is coming from. As a player, I often hate combat because more time is being spent with refereeing than with the PCs doing cool stuff. This is even the case for a skirmish or major combat. So when I GM, there are a few things I do to make it more interesting.First, I hand the reins over to players when they roll successfully. They describe how their hit and damage rolls manifest in the game. This makes things a lot of fun for them.Second, I encourage creativity by not penalizing it. In fact, I often reward it. The old knee to the groin, especially when the target doesn't see it coming, doesn't just result in a measly 2 points of damage, but perhaps a daze or stun as well.Third, I make all encounters abstract and base it off the skill challenge system. I've done some heavy tweaking to 4e to allow for greater flexibility.All in all, my goal as a GM is not to beat the players (their characters are a different story), but to make life more interesting (in the &quot;May you live in interesting times&quot; sort of way).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Afrodyte, post: 5314078, member: 8713"] I can see where the OP is coming from. As a player, I often hate combat because more time is being spent with refereeing than with the PCs doing cool stuff. This is even the case for a skirmish or major combat. So when I GM, there are a few things I do to make it more interesting. First, I hand the reins over to players when they roll successfully. They describe how their hit and damage rolls manifest in the game. This makes things a lot of fun for them. Second, I encourage creativity by not penalizing it. In fact, I often reward it. The old knee to the groin, especially when the target doesn't see it coming, doesn't just result in a measly 2 points of damage, but perhaps a daze or stun as well. Third, I make all encounters abstract and base it off the skill challenge system. I've done some heavy tweaking to 4e to allow for greater flexibility. All in all, my goal as a GM is not to beat the players (their characters are a different story), but to make life more interesting (in the "May you live in interesting times" sort of way). [/QUOTE]

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