How to Make Your Sessions Fun and Scenes Interesting, Engaging and Exciting

Do you use 'traditional' systems such as DnD, Pathfinder, Savage Worlds or perhaps Fate? Do you ever get the feeling during combat that people are just rolling the dice and waiting for the encounter to end? Does it feel like your gaming group isn't very engaged during the sessions? Do the monsters / NPCs feel more like bags of stats rather than real creatures? Do you feel like you end up wasting large portions of your sessions to something unenjoyable such as arguing or re-reading the rules for the nth time? Then come on in. Let's have a discussion about how to make roleplaying sessions fun and scenes interesting, engaging and exciting. I will share some of my best practices during this interactive speech programme. In addition to covering my predetermined agenda, I would like to hear your real life challenges so we can find solutions to them together.