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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 5513627" data-attributes="member: 73683">So what you're saying is I'd have to flip the pages like four times an hour.As opposed to rifling through four different books multiple times during every single encounter.And the latter situation is more desirable, somehow?A Delve encounter write-up done correctly contains the room description. And, even if it doesn't, that's one page to flip to and from. One. That's cake to manage. Monsters in multiple locations in multiple Monster Manuals? The traps section of the DMG and the terrain features section of the DMG? The Acrobatics skill and the Thievery skill in the PHB? That's heinous.Yes, as long as you don't count the three other books you'd need to be flipping through at the same time, because the encounter's details aren't all laid out for you in the adventure.By "generic", you mean "printed in sourcebooks". Which is, y'know, most monsters.Yes, and that's wonderful when you have an encounter of nothing but NPCs custom-made for the adventure. It's terrible every other time.No they won't. I never have any of those books open in front of me when I DM.Treasure allotment should be handled prior to the game, not during. Talk about a good way to ask your players to sit still for a few minutes while you figure out what the bad guys had on them.What summoned monsters? I run 4e. If it's possible to bring new monsters into the mix, those monsters' stat blocks are included in the Delve presentation.My DM's screen provides the DCs I need for these situations.Yes, it is. I prefer my page-flipping to occur before or after the encounter, not in the middle when it can stall the action.This is exactly why having to flip pages a few times an hour using the Delve format is infinitely preferable to flipping pages constantly through four different books during the encounter itself using the old format.The Delve format has been doing it that way for years. Furthermore, as we increasingly see a transition to digitally-assisted play, space considerations will become a thing of the past (and perhaps so will page-flipping).Not significantly enough to justify returning to those barbarian days where the DM peeked his head up over a pile of sourcebooks behind the DM screen.Really?I, for one, have always felt like there is a designated break in manner of play as soon as the words "Roll for initiative," are uttered. The Delve format allows you to zoom in on the action when that happens.Less page-flipping, fewer books, better organization, and the trade-off is...the perceived artificiality of a transition to combat?</blockquote>

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