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<blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 3379173" data-attributes="member: 467">I didn't say there was no prep time.&nbsp; What I said is you can instead use your prep time to familiarize yourself with the abilities of your chosen baddies and plan their use of those abilities in a tactical situation -- which cuts down on the perceived complexity of running the game.&nbsp; If you know what your NPCs can do, and have cheat sheets and other simple aids, you won't run into the &quot;So many Buffs! I am so lost!&quot; problem.As far as PCs go: the burden is on the players to play their characters.&nbsp; They ned to know what their characters can do, whether that's how Power Attack works or what Evards Black Tentacles does.&nbsp; My greatest pet peeve at the table is the player who has to constantly flip open the book to look up a class feature, feat or spell -- especially if he has been playing the character (or similar ones) for a long time.&nbsp; I understand that not everyone has a steel-trap memory, but for the sake of WeeJas, make a photcopy and buy a highlighter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Reynard, post: 3379173, member: 467"] I didn't say there was no prep time. What I said is you can instead use your prep time to familiarize yourself with the abilities of your chosen baddies and plan their use of those abilities in a tactical situation -- which cuts down on the perceived complexity of [i]running the game[/i]. If you know what your NPCs can do, and have cheat sheets and other simple aids, you won't run into the "So many Buffs! I am so lost!" problem. As far as PCs go: the burden is on the players to play their characters. They ned to know what their characters can do, whether that's how Power Attack works or what Evards Black Tentacles does. My greatest pet peeve at the table is the player who has to constantly flip open the book to look up a class feature, feat or spell -- especially if he has been playing the character (or similar ones) for a long time. I understand that not everyone has a steel-trap memory, but for the sake of WeeJas, make a photcopy and buy a highlighter. [/QUOTE]

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