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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jemal" data-source="post: 4814955" data-attributes="member: 9026">Thankfully I've only ever played with one DM that described combat like that, IRL.  For the most part everyone I've gamed with goes the extra meter and actually describes stuff.. not always in as much detail as we do here on ENWorld(though sometimes), but at the very least "You swing your sword at the dragon, drawing a shallow slice for 12 damage."  Some of the better games I've had 3.0/3.5 were more akin to storytelling with the amount of description that got thrown around, both by players and DM's.  I've had entire hours-long gaming sessions where not a die was rolled.For example, when we play epic IRL, we don't do it b/c we want to obliterate armies (well, OK not JUST because we want to obliterate armies), we do it because describing what Epic Characters do is just plain fun!  It's like living out a truley heroic adventure.I've seen nothing about 4e that makes it either more OR less descriptive.  I am simply not fond of it.  I've tried it out a few times, and it's an interesting system, but I say that like I say World of Darkness, or Gurps, etc, are interesting systems.  I just don't see it as D&D.  Heck, I think of WoW as being closer to my view of D&D than I do 4e.</blockquote>