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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8694166" data-attributes="member: 6701124"><p>Considering D&D.</p><p></p><p>It feels like the point of rolling dice to see if a character knows something isn't to simulate something that happens in your brain when you encounter a thing and your brain either registers that it knows it or it doesn't (or maybe spins awhile first, likely with some small chance of a slip where you realize you did or didn't know it).</p><p></p><p>It feels like the point of rolling dice is to see if a character knows something is to simulate that in many cases when you encounter something that you don't have have control over whether the thing you've encountered is something you know. When someone asks me to AE or review a paper, I don't get to decide if I know the authors or subject of the paper that was sent to me. When I message the person in the herbarium a picture of something in my yard to ID, he doesn't get to decide if it is one that he's very familiar with or one that he doesn't know.</p><p> </p><p>Say your character studies some art form and is able to identify the work of most current journeymen in your kingdom, almost all masters of the present and past century in your kingdom, half the masters of the century before that in your kingdom and half of the current ones in the surrounding kingdoms, and a progressively smaller fraction going back in time or further away geographically. The DM hasn't planned on you going shopping for your favorite art form in the small village you are in, and decides to roll if there are any samples currently for sale. They roll that there is. Does your character recognize the creator? Why or why not?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 8694166, member: 6701124"] Considering D&D. It feels like the point of rolling dice to see if a character knows something isn't to simulate something that happens in your brain when you encounter a thing and your brain either registers that it knows it or it doesn't (or maybe spins awhile first, likely with some small chance of a slip where you realize you did or didn't know it). It feels like the point of rolling dice is to see if a character knows something is to simulate that in many cases when you encounter something that you don't have have control over whether the thing you've encountered is something you know. When someone asks me to AE or review a paper, I don't get to decide if I know the authors or subject of the paper that was sent to me. When I message the person in the herbarium a picture of something in my yard to ID, he doesn't get to decide if it is one that he's very familiar with or one that he doesn't know. Say your character studies some art form and is able to identify the work of most current journeymen in your kingdom, almost all masters of the present and past century in your kingdom, half the masters of the century before that in your kingdom and half of the current ones in the surrounding kingdoms, and a progressively smaller fraction going back in time or further away geographically. The DM hasn't planned on you going shopping for your favorite art form in the small village you are in, and decides to roll if there are any samples currently for sale. They roll that there is. Does your character recognize the creator? Why or why not? [/QUOTE]
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