Gotta use trigonometry to accurately calculate the distance to flying enemies

Have you seen some of the homebrew rules people use to track inventory and encumbrance?

not for D&D, but in wargames with minis and terrain and stuff, I absolutely want to know the trajectory of the artillery shells being fired on my position. As well as the blast radius of the detonation and (if applicable) the size of the fireball and radius in which any shrapnel might be an issue.

Gotta know how many of my men are left and if their fortifications are left standing.

Can I interest you in German TTRPG Das Schwarze Auge?

Yeah, it's just basic arithmetic with (usually) small numbers, and if you're the min-maxing type you might add probability calculation into it, but the latter is strictly optional and the former is basically the fun part about maths.

TBH I think probability calculation is fascinating, but it can get a bit cerebral if you want to do it during play.

I have a friend who once complained that adding 5ft every other diagonal was too complicated.

Now if you're playing 1st edition Pathfinder and juggling 7+ buffs some of which do stack and some don't, then yes that gets complicated. But an extra 5ft every other diagonal is easy.

If you're like me and countless others, my money is on the culprit of school being like "You don't get it yet? YOU'RE FAILING AND THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES. Look at the smart kid who is effortlessly succeeding! Let's dote on them!"

Like sheesh, of course I'd never want to try anything I don't have a natural affinity for. Thanks! Lol

I'm glad we realized this and broke out of it though. Many are not so lucky. :(

Ah, but you see, arithmetic is scary.

The only time I get too much to deal with is when I’m rolling four dice per attack, twice per round, and want to have a high level of confidence in my answer while also not taking up everyone’s time. For that I just made a spreadsheet and moved on with it.

"You must solve the puzzle to open the door! Okay, at midday a purple worm heads east at approximately 100 feet per minute, and a dragon leaves her lair at sundown going west at 480 feet per minute..."

Music is just math that sounds good when you get it right. Can't help you if you're one of those dancing or fancy-talking bards, though.

Polymath bards exist

I like math and dragons, but hate live improv, do I'm playing Baldurs Gate.

That's why you become the DM

To each their own, I love seeing the math because then I can miss six attacks in a row and go "Fuck you! That's bullshit! Those rolls are bullshit!" and then look in the combat log to see that no, those rolls weren't bullshit, they're just shit. Makes the game feel more fair. If they obfuscated the math and just said "Nah mate, you miss" x6 with no other explanation that would really piss me off.