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<blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 7482234" data-attributes="member: 97077"><p>What I see at most tables is that the DM is doing all the work because the players are not performing their role according to what D&D 5e prescribes. Either they are used to the paradigm of a different game system or they've been taught that way by someone who approaches all editions of D&D as if they are the same game. This is true of some popular vodcasts I've seen as well. The players offer basically nothing in the way of description, often asking to make an ability check. The DM feels pressured to accept that and then has to fill in the blanks on what the character is actually doing. Sometimes this even leads to the player objecting to what the DM establishes - "No, I wouldn't have done that." Well, maybe if you performed your role instead of kicking it all to the DM by asking to make ability checks instead of describing what you want to do, maybe this wouldn't happen!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, that's my point. I bring up making a statement of goal and approach that the DM can adjudicate and suddenly it's "You use code words!" Silly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iserith, post: 7482234, member: 97077"] What I see at most tables is that the DM is doing all the work because the players are not performing their role according to what D&D 5e prescribes. Either they are used to the paradigm of a different game system or they've been taught that way by someone who approaches all editions of D&D as if they are the same game. This is true of some popular vodcasts I've seen as well. The players offer basically nothing in the way of description, often asking to make an ability check. The DM feels pressured to accept that and then has to fill in the blanks on what the character is actually doing. Sometimes this even leads to the player objecting to what the DM establishes - "No, I wouldn't have done that." Well, maybe if you performed your role instead of kicking it all to the DM by asking to make ability checks instead of describing what you want to do, maybe this wouldn't happen! Yeah, that's my point. I bring up making a statement of goal and approach that the DM can adjudicate and suddenly it's "You use code words!" Silly. [/QUOTE]
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