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<blockquote data-quote="TBoarder" data-source="post: 83700" data-attributes="member: 272">Here's my argument for having the players roll for their own damage.&nbsp; After you cut away all of the role-playing that's done in D&amp;D, what you're left with is a game.&nbsp; The more dice that the DM rolls for a player, the less it feels like a game and the more it feels like a narrative.&nbsp; Players rolling damage gives them more to do in the game.&nbsp; Take that away and I can almost guarantee that combat will become a much rarer occurance.&nbsp; What player wants to sit around, doing nothing. while listening to the DM explain what his PC is doing.&nbsp; Also, there's the fact that this kind of situation harbors distrust between Players and DMs.&nbsp; There's no way that the players can know if the DMs cheating or not.&nbsp; Obviously this is an extremely pessimistic way of looking at it, but it's something that should definitely be looked at when making a decision like this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TBoarder, post: 83700, member: 272"] Here's my argument for having the players roll for their own damage. After you cut away all of the role-playing that's done in D&D, what you're left with is a [I]game[/I]. The more dice that the DM rolls for a player, the less it feels like a game and the more it feels like a narrative. Players rolling damage gives them more [I]to do[/I] in the game. Take that away and I can almost guarantee that combat will become a much rarer occurance. What player wants to sit around, doing nothing. while listening to the DM explain what his PC is doing. Also, there's the fact that this kind of situation harbors distrust between Players and DMs. There's no way that the players can know if the DMs cheating or not. Obviously this is an extremely pessimistic way of looking at it, but it's something that should definitely be looked at when making a decision like this. [/QUOTE]

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