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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8599966" data-attributes="member: 86653">I think a lot of this is wrapped up in those assumptions and preferences we’re so bad at talking about. Different players and DMs think different styles of play are fun. Some want combat as sport where every fight is as perfectly balanced as it’s possible to get and anything that prevents skipping ahead to the next fight is a waste of table time. While others want to sweat the details and play full-on combat as war fantasy [redacted] Vietnam.To me, the less we sweat the details, the less we’re immersed in the world, the more explicitly a game D&amp;D is (generally), the less interested I am. I want to track rations, water, encumbrance, etc. I want risk-and-reward to be a thing, beyond one fight or one day. I want that secondary world feeling like the travelogue portions of Lord of the Rings. D&amp;D as a combat board game bores me.I want to poke and prod at the world with a 10-foot-pole to discover secrets. I want to describe how my character does things. I want to avoid fights completely by coming up with a weird plan. I don’t want the DM to ask for a check and skip over all the fun bits.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 8599966, member: 86653"] I think a lot of this is wrapped up in those assumptions and preferences we’re so bad at talking about. Different players and DMs think different styles of play are fun. Some want combat as sport where every fight is as perfectly balanced as it’s possible to get and anything that prevents skipping ahead to the next fight is a waste of table time. While others want to sweat the details and play full-on combat as war fantasy [redacted] Vietnam. To me, the less we sweat the details, the less we’re immersed in the world, the more explicitly a game D&D is (generally), the less interested I am. I want to track rations, water, encumbrance, etc. I want risk-and-reward to be a thing, beyond one fight or one day. I want that secondary world feeling like the travelogue portions of Lord of the Rings. D&D as a combat board game bores me. I want to poke and prod at the world with a 10-foot-pole to discover secrets. I want to describe how my character does things. I want to avoid fights completely by coming up with a weird plan. I don’t want the DM to ask for a check and skip over all the fun bits. [/QUOTE]

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