>Running 5e campaign
>party is sent to a town a few days away
>pass several smaller villages along the way
>every village they ask locals if there's any work for them
>every village I make them a little side quest
>end of session they're mad at me that the game went so slow
>"we didn't even get to that town!"
>running game, players need to go to a specific far away place
>they get there pretty quickly, as the specific road they are traveling is well protected
>they're mad they didn't get to do tons of side quests on the way.
>>55339721
>Playing 5e campaign
>Spend other players' turns paying attention to the fight and planning what I'm going to do on my turn
>Breeze through my turn because of this
>Other players spend their time outside of their turns on their phones
>Take upwards of 2 minutes on their turns looking through their spells/abilities deciding what they do and then another minute forgetting which dice to use, calculating damage etc
>Every single combat session takes upwards of 30 minutes because of this
>playing Monopoly with family
>cousin says he forgets how you roll to move as we're seeing up
>I say, "yeah, I forget if you roll 1 or 2d6."
>everyone looks at me funny
>mom asks, "What's Toody?"
>>55341595
>>playing Monopoly with family
bwahahahaha, stahp!
>>55339721
Make them arrive late for whatever it was, so they remember it's not a fucking videogame and that if you're sent on a quest somewhere, you're supposed to get there and finish it.
>>55341501
the GM needs to start skipping their turn when this happens. Just have them take the doge action or something.
>>55341501
>>Take upwards of 2 minutes on their turns looking through their spells/abilities deciding what they do and then another minute forgetting which dice to use, calculating damage etc
and deendeefags mock systems in which people actually get to roll for parry - as if die rolling was the time consuming thing in combat
utter plebs
>>55342128
not an argument
>running on a treadmill
>don't even make it anywhere
>>55341724
Yeah it's horrible. I'm not that anon but my cousin would never, under any circumstance, sell or trade property