I couldn't believe the sheer amount of adults walking around me that can't add two random 2 digit numbers together on the fly when I first played DnD. It's what influenced me to become a card dealer.
I let player do the math under penalty that if I do check and it is wrong, huge penalties apply, though it is explained as IC reasons.
An item used wrong may break, abilities may be disabled for a time because you exhausted yourself or some other detriment equal to the issue you've caused.
It also depends how familiar I am with the players: close friends I'm fine closing an eye for because I generally trust them that any miscalculation is a mistake and not an attempt to cheat, while with strangers I'd be a lot more strict.
I found out that players tend to prefer having said penalties applied (stuff like "Your wand explodes as you've overused it) rather than the effect being retconned or me punishing them in an unrelated way.
Depends on the players. I've had groups that, for multiple reasons, I have been tempted just to hold their character sheets behind the screen.
In all reality, in actual practice I'm theoretically in favor of the "official" character sheets (which officially represent the character in the particular campaign) being ones kept by the DM. Any changes that happen to characters and the players need to be sure to get with the DM and update his hard copy of the sheet together.
Frickers be cheatin I'm tellin ya - and 1/3 the ones that DON'T cheat just be too stupid to maintain they sheets
I let them do it, they're adults
I let them do it but also do it in my head in case they're wrong
I make the players do all the math, even mine
>boss
>leader
I do it but because I can do it faster than them. Let them just focus on roleplaying.
I usually set up a basic algorithm in an app like roll 20. Does most of the math for us.
I'm continually surprised by how many grown men can't count without their fingers.
Some of us got smart and use our toes instead.
No the smart kids learned binary and have essentially 1,023 fingers to work with.
You mean 1024
0 is one of those numbers
>trying to convince smart kids 0 is a real number
Dumpass.
If I have to play with little pissbabies that can't figure out simple shit themselves or ask stupid questions all the time I don't play with them.
I couldn't believe the sheer amount of adults walking around me that can't add two random 2 digit numbers together on the fly when I first played DnD. It's what influenced me to become a card dealer.
There is math, but not grade-school arithmetic
I charge money to reach autistic children math, we aren't doing it after hours.
I check my DMs math and he's always wrong.
We do our own math and we have our resident autist Bill double-checking it.
I let player do the math under penalty that if I do check and it is wrong, huge penalties apply, though it is explained as IC reasons.
An item used wrong may break, abilities may be disabled for a time because you exhausted yourself or some other detriment equal to the issue you've caused.
It also depends how familiar I am with the players: close friends I'm fine closing an eye for because I generally trust them that any miscalculation is a mistake and not an attempt to cheat, while with strangers I'd be a lot more strict.
I found out that players tend to prefer having said penalties applied (stuff like "Your wand explodes as you've overused it) rather than the effect being retconned or me punishing them in an unrelated way.
Is it that hard just to bring a calculator if you have trouble with math? Not gonna shame you for trying to speed up the game.
Depends on the players. I've had groups that, for multiple reasons, I have been tempted just to hold their character sheets behind the screen.
In all reality, in actual practice I'm theoretically in favor of the "official" character sheets (which officially represent the character in the particular campaign) being ones kept by the DM. Any changes that happen to characters and the players need to be sure to get with the DM and update his hard copy of the sheet together.
Frickers be cheatin I'm tellin ya - and 1/3 the ones that DON'T cheat just be too stupid to maintain they sheets