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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8259363" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I'm not terrible at accents but some must just <em>never</em> be attempted. Like the "Oirish" accent I can only begin to do by saying "T'Emeroild Oisle!" (The Emerald Isle). So I usually stick to vague US/UK regional accents. Northern Irish/Ian Paisley is fine. Oh and humblebrag but I have a "scary voice" I can do that I got banned from using because it scares one of the players too much (also it gives me a sore throat if I do it for more than like a few minutes).</p><p></p><p>My biggest issue in DMing is maps. It's not that I can't draw maps. I'm quite good at it. I used to enjoy it when I was much younger. But something snapped in me at some point in the very early '00s.</p><p></p><p>Now, it's that I don't<em> want</em> to draw maps. I hate drawing maps. Drawing maps makes me angry and frustrated for reasons I don't entirely understand. It feels like a huge waste of time to do anything but sketch-maps. I don't mind copying from a map to a battlemat says (I have a drawn-on battlemat), but I don't want to be the one who drew the map I'm copying from.</p><p></p><p>(I also utterly despise any map that isn't line-drawn, including full colour battlemat maps. This is an irrational and unreasonable thing. Obviously easy to avoid when I'm DMing though.)</p><p></p><p>My second biggest issue is, I think, judging whether "boss fights" will be one-sided beatdowns against the boss. I've got a bit better at this over the years, but an awful lot of times, my "epic" bossfight has been ended unceremoniously in like three-four rounds most of which the boss was CC'd for, because holy crap when my players sense someone is a boss, they pull everything out, like absolutely everything, stuff I haven't seen for years. They'll struggle on some moderately hard fight, but a boss? It's a curbstomping Jim, but not as we know it.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah I was thinking "Oh brother, his players have NOT thought this request through...".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8259363, member: 18"] I'm not terrible at accents but some must just [I]never[/I] be attempted. Like the "Oirish" accent I can only begin to do by saying "T'Emeroild Oisle!" (The Emerald Isle). So I usually stick to vague US/UK regional accents. Northern Irish/Ian Paisley is fine. Oh and humblebrag but I have a "scary voice" I can do that I got banned from using because it scares one of the players too much (also it gives me a sore throat if I do it for more than like a few minutes). My biggest issue in DMing is maps. It's not that I can't draw maps. I'm quite good at it. I used to enjoy it when I was much younger. But something snapped in me at some point in the very early '00s. Now, it's that I don't[I] want[/I] to draw maps. I hate drawing maps. Drawing maps makes me angry and frustrated for reasons I don't entirely understand. It feels like a huge waste of time to do anything but sketch-maps. I don't mind copying from a map to a battlemat says (I have a drawn-on battlemat), but I don't want to be the one who drew the map I'm copying from. (I also utterly despise any map that isn't line-drawn, including full colour battlemat maps. This is an irrational and unreasonable thing. Obviously easy to avoid when I'm DMing though.) My second biggest issue is, I think, judging whether "boss fights" will be one-sided beatdowns against the boss. I've got a bit better at this over the years, but an awful lot of times, my "epic" bossfight has been ended unceremoniously in like three-four rounds most of which the boss was CC'd for, because holy crap when my players sense someone is a boss, they pull everything out, like absolutely everything, stuff I haven't seen for years. They'll struggle on some moderately hard fight, but a boss? It's a curbstomping Jim, but not as we know it. Yeah I was thinking "Oh brother, his players have NOT thought this request through...". [/QUOTE]
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