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<blockquote data-quote="Meech17" data-source="post: 9342843" data-attributes="member: 7044459">I can sympathize with those with ADHD, and I can sympathize with down time in games. I understand that I'm probably an outlier. I've been really hungry to play so I was eager to join in and get going. And being dropped in as an outsider, I also enjoyed trying to keep track of what was happening and piece together the story threads. If the party splits and players 1, 2, and 3 are playing Pokemon Go while players 4, and 5 are having an aside with the black smith, I don't think anyone would blame them. And if they did I'd agree with [USER=7024481]@nevin[/USER] that they're being uptight.I think this goes beyond that though. It's one thing to check your phone, shoot off some texts, browse EN World while waiting for the combat rotation. But if it comes back to your turn, you're caught totally unprepared, and have to ask for a recap of what happened between now and your last turn I feel like that turns into bad manners. It was a 3.5 hour session, and we spent 2-2.5 of those hours in a single combat encounter. I know 5e catches a lot of flack for being slow but I can't help but feel like if people were more prepared, knew their abilities a bit better, and paid just a little more attention we would have gotten through it way faster. Having to re-explain the board state on every other player's turn ate up a lot of time and got to be really tedious. &nbsp;This was at the DM's home. I was thinking this was the case but I don't know. I think I'd be trying to find another venue to socialize with my friends if I wasn't enjoying the game enough to be engaged in it. If my main goal was to socialize I'd think the game would get in the way of that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Meech17, post: 9342843, member: 7044459"] I can sympathize with those with ADHD, and I can sympathize with down time in games. I understand that I'm probably an outlier. I've been really hungry to play so I was eager to join in and get going. And being dropped in as an outsider, I also enjoyed trying to keep track of what was happening and piece together the story threads. If the party splits and players 1, 2, and 3 are playing Pokemon Go while players 4, and 5 are having an aside with the black smith, I don't think anyone would blame them. And if they did I'd agree with [USER=7024481]@nevin[/USER] that they're being uptight. I think this goes beyond that though. It's one thing to check your phone, shoot off some texts, browse EN World while waiting for the combat rotation. But if it comes back to your turn, you're caught totally unprepared, and have to ask for a recap of what happened between now and your last turn I feel like that turns into bad manners. It was a 3.5 hour session, and we spent 2-2.5 of those hours in a single combat encounter. I know 5e catches a lot of flack for being slow but I can't help but feel like if people were more prepared, knew their abilities a bit better, and paid just a little more attention we would have gotten through it way faster. Having to re-explain the board state on every other player's turn ate up a lot of time and got to be really tedious. This was at the DM's home. I was thinking this was the case but I don't know. I think I'd be trying to find another venue to socialize with my friends if I wasn't enjoying the game enough to be engaged in it. If my main goal was to socialize I'd think the game would get in the way of that. [/QUOTE]

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