D&D 5E What is your favorite part of playing D&D?

[Incenjucar]

As a DM, I quite enjoy giving other people a playground to use their imagination and feel the rush of excitement from a well-fought battle.

Sometimes a game ends with high-fives.

 

[Shadowdweller00]

But god, I miss tactical combat...

Haven't played in a while? Haven't felt challenged in a while? Haven't played a game with combat for a while? Don't feel like 5e combat is tactical? Or...?

 

[TerraDave]

As a DM, I quite enjoy giving other people a playground to use their imagination and feel the rush of excitement from a well-fought battle.

Sometimes a game ends with high-fives.

Making choices. Character build choices, tactical choices, moral dilemmas, sacrifices, all of it. I like imagining myself as someone else and/or in a different situation and making choices as I imagine I or that person would in that situation.

As a player, a few of the above (though I do lean towards exploration and puzzle solving).

As a DM, its less about my creations and more about adjudicating situations....of exploration and puzzle solving, and other things. A playground of choices could be another way to say it.

 

[Stormonu]

I love a good story, and getting to be someone I'm not. Which also means being a god in combat.

 

[aco175]

At this time in my life, it is mostly hanging out with my friends and family. Rolling dice and killing monsters is fun as well as overcoming traps and other obstacles on way to kill monsters, but mostly hanging out since I still get to play with both my father and my son.

 

[Corinnguard]

I chose being someone else for a while ( a Dragonborn Fighter), hanging out with my friends virtually on the Discord and VTT ( the members of my group live in Ohio and Texas, I am from Michigan), and dealing with zany/comical situations (my party has a Wild Magic Sorcerer, a Teleporter, a Bladesinger Wizard, a Bard and me, the sole fighter in the group. ) Thanks to the Wild Magic Sorcerer and a DM who wrote up his own Wild Magic Surge table for the sorcerer, my party has had some really amusing moments.

 

[payn]

Creating compelling characters and leading them through a story were my primary focus for this. If its just a tactical dungeon romp, I will not be interested. YMMV.

 

[Swarmkeeper]

Other: escapism - putting the stresses of the workday behind and immersing oneself in an imaginary world with friends

 

[DEFCON 1]

Drama
Being part of a compelling story
Interacting with other pretend people

Basically long-form improvisation from the comfort of my own chair.

 

[AnotherGuy]

Some of these options were funny