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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 355532" data-attributes="member: 63">I hadn't been a player for several, um, years, until yesterday mornin, when I played in a friend's Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil game.&nbsp; It was the first part of the mine section, the very entrance.&nbsp; And, as we expected, we got into a fight.&nbsp; I was really eager, since I had a character who was fun, and I hadn't been able to beat up on random NPCs for a long time.And then I just waited.&nbsp; The DM looked at the book, then flipped to the map, then back to the book, then back to the map.&nbsp; Then he got out his markers and (checking with the book again) drew the map very carefully, took out some gnoll minis.&nbsp; Once he'd spent about 5 minutes setting up the map board, he still kept checking back to the book during combat to make sure the stats were all totally accurate.I dunno, I'm just used to my own winging-it play style, but it went really slowly for me.&nbsp; I wish we could put big letters into adventures telling GMs, &quot;If you haven't had time to get to know what these critters can do, use something you're more familiar with.&quot;Dang, I must be coming across as a really angry gamer today.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 355532, member: 63"] I hadn't been a player for several, um, years, until yesterday mornin, when I played in a friend's Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil game. It was the first part of the mine section, the very entrance. And, as we expected, we got into a fight. I was really eager, since I had a character who was fun, and I hadn't been able to beat up on random NPCs for a long time. And then I just waited. The DM looked at the book, then flipped to the map, then back to the book, then back to the map. Then he got out his markers and (checking with the book again) drew the map very carefully, took out some gnoll minis. Once he'd spent about 5 minutes setting up the map board, he still kept checking back to the book during combat to make sure the stats were all totally accurate. I dunno, I'm just used to my own winging-it play style, but it went really slowly for me. I wish we could put big letters into adventures telling GMs, "If you haven't had time to get to know what these critters can do, use something you're more familiar with." Dang, I must be coming across as a really angry gamer today. [/QUOTE]

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