By Expy -
October 2, 2007 -
9 Comments
10 signs your DM is crunchy
Is your DM obsessed with rules and game mechanics?
Here are 10 ways to know if your DM likes his Dungeons & Dragons the crunchy way:
- Your DM rolls dice behind the screen for no apparent reason.
- Fights sometimes last for an entire session.
- You roll for random encounters.
- And you do so once for every hour on the road.
- You need more than one sentence to describe your best magic item.
- Your DM understands the grappling rules.
- You have callouses from rolling dice.
- Your DM believes rules lawyer is a compliment.
- You have rolled checks for every single skill on your character sheet.
- Your character sheet is 6 pages long.
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Arete
Hey Yax! When did you start spying on my game?
lol good one mate… I’m not guilty of all of theses :) Mostly 2 (once or twice) and 6 ..
:P
My players would say I’m guilty of 1 but it’s never for no reason – even if that reason is to stop OOC chatter.
I have also been guilty of 3 and 4 – and not just rolling once an hour but every 10 minutes (game time) but that’s just to check if there is a wanderer tends to average once an hour.
And, despite my lack of interest in combat I’ve done 2 on three occasions – 2 battles and 1 Tournament Grand Melee.
I’m not very crunchy. I’m do #1, #3, and #5.
Well, a lot of skills are useful – and a good way to reward characters who take the “non-important” skills, but yeah.. random encounters? Who does those?
T.
rolling random dice is fun! i dont use a screan thoguh :S
i think i may be guilty of all of these from time to time… but even as a player, i was the rules lawyer. but really, that’s because i had to be. we were playing with a relic of the dark ages (a 2nd ed GM) who really wanted to try the new edition, and everyone else in my group was (and is) too lazy to even browse the player’s handbook for anything other than weapons, the occassional spell (in the off chance they pry the dunce — excuse me, fighter — cap off long enough to roll one up, and for “pretty pictures.” argh… i need a better group… anyone taking apps? GM or player? lol
Then game i’m in now…. Yea our current DM is guilty of all of them :)
I’m occasionally guilty of battles lasting all sessions, but I’ve never really rolled for random encounters. We sorta just cough fast-forward thru those cough. But I am also VERY guilty of #5, as I like to give my players weapons to deal with the apocalyptic battles I throw at them from time to time sometimes, because the players don’t gain nearly as much exp as they should since they love to spring every single trap i lay down so I fill up a couple rooms with monsters that give lots of exp so that they aren’t under-leveled. makes it easier for me XD and nobody’s died (yet – a couple got close though X_X) so… yeah.