Norfleet
First Post
Sounds like your DM didn't have enough ranks in his Bluff skill.Greybar said:Well, maybe it's a style thing, but I really dislike this. As a player I remember realizing that this sort of logic drove the game I was in. It totally took the fun out of it. Success and Failure was irrelevant, since reality morphed in front of us.
So maybe for some it is a "great DM secret", but only so long as used very sparingly and kept a deep deep secret so the players never notice it.
The key here is, that, as the DM, you must vary your reaction to the player's "discovery" of "the solution", from neutral disinterest, as if this was expected, to surprise, as if the player had come up with something you didn't think of(which is true, because you didn't think of anything, but try not to let on). If the latter, shuffle your papers as if to confirm the viability of the player's solution against your own before "permitting" it. Plus, sometimes, a player will manage to concoct a brilliant theory rivalling that of any Kennedy Assassination Theory to connect elements of the plot that you, in fact, randomly generated on a table last night. This is a good thing, and should be rewarded.