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<blockquote data-quote="VenerableBede" data-source="post: 9609603" data-attributes="member: 7032917">I don't play A5e for simple or fast... It's definitely simpler for other games, but one of the results of making a game crunchier is, almost inevitably, slower play speed. Unless you are playing with really focused, really efficient individuals who have their characters (and the overall rules) memorized.That said, I tend to find the overabundance of dice used in A5e fiddly, and cleaning that up is an easy way to shave time off of turns. Other than Advantage/Disadvantage, I generally do this by finding ways to avoid rolling multiple dice wherever possible (such as with your Great Weapon Fighting example), or finding ways to avoiding using multiple types of dice in a single roll (other than d20 + whatever damage die). Converting dice into static bonuses—expertise dice in particular—takes so much fiddliness out of the game.Static bonuses are your friend, people. Stacking on an additional die roll after die roll has the same problems that static bonuses can have, but worse because it takes the additional time of finding the die and rolling it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="VenerableBede, post: 9609603, member: 7032917"] I don't play A5e for simple or fast... It's definitely simpler for other games, but one of the results of making a game crunchier is, almost inevitably, slower play speed. Unless you are playing with really focused, really efficient individuals who have their characters (and the overall rules) memorized. That said, I tend to find the overabundance of dice used in A5e fiddly, and cleaning that up is an easy way to shave time off of turns. Other than Advantage/Disadvantage, I generally do this by finding ways to avoid rolling multiple dice wherever possible (such as with your Great Weapon Fighting example), or finding ways to avoiding using multiple types of dice in a single roll (other than d20 + whatever damage die). Converting dice into static bonuses—expertise dice in particular—takes so much fiddliness out of the game. Static bonuses are your friend, people. Stacking on an additional die roll after die roll has the same problems that static bonuses can have, but worse because it takes the additional time of finding the die and rolling it. [/QUOTE]

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