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Tatterdemalion wrote:
Grimcleaver wrote:By contrast I think the 4e quote is talking about speeding through slow parts. I don't think that's roleplaying at all. Roleplay is the good stuff. It's getting into town, or whistling your way across seven days of walking in the woods, or taking an hour to pull away the rubble from the secret enterance. Or for that matter, going through a bunch of empty dungeon tunnels. It's about editing, and I don't know that that's such a bad idea.You are my hero :)
As someone who has tried to get his family in to playing D&D for years, and has never really played himself before, I found it was hard to get them interested in the 3/3.5 edition because without knowing a good deal of the rules from memory and understanding them it always seemed to degenerate into everyone flipping through the books. Now I know that may have been bad preparation on my part but I have found it a lot easier, and my family more fun, with the newer streamlined 4th edition rules. In fact becuase it was easier for them to understand they started to relax more and the RPing just came out naturally.
Just the thoughts of a very novice DM.
Regards