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<blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 7241454" data-attributes="member: 97077"><p>Telegraphing, plus teaching your players to always state their goal and approach, neatly avoids such issues without a lot of negotiation at the table in my experience.</p><p></p><p>If I say that the zombie horde is primarily focused on feeding and make that clear via my description, it may come as no surprise to the players when the dead stop to munch on a dying character. If a player tells me that his or her character wants to cast <em>silence </em>(approach) so as to "blind" the bats (goal), then I can say "Yes, and..." to the approach and adjudicate accordingly. If the player just says "I cast silence on the bats," the DM may or may not think that this could effectively blind the bats. It might not even occur to him or her at all, even if he or she would believe that it would be effectively blinding to the bats.</p><p></p><p>Both telegraphing and stating a goal and approach are, essentially, just effective ways of conveying the "common sense" of the situation by setting expectations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iserith, post: 7241454, member: 97077"] Telegraphing, plus teaching your players to always state their goal and approach, neatly avoids such issues without a lot of negotiation at the table in my experience. If I say that the zombie horde is primarily focused on feeding and make that clear via my description, it may come as no surprise to the players when the dead stop to munch on a dying character. If a player tells me that his or her character wants to cast [I]silence [/I](approach) so as to "blind" the bats (goal), then I can say "Yes, and..." to the approach and adjudicate accordingly. If the player just says "I cast silence on the bats," the DM may or may not think that this could effectively blind the bats. It might not even occur to him or her at all, even if he or she would believe that it would be effectively blinding to the bats. Both telegraphing and stating a goal and approach are, essentially, just effective ways of conveying the "common sense" of the situation by setting expectations. [/QUOTE]
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