FrogReaver
As long as i get to be the frog
Yeah, so say that. It's your character and character's life experiences. Help contribute to the exciting, memorable story we're creating together. Increase the fun by entertaining everyone else at the table with an interesting detail from your character's past in a reasonably succinct way.
Obviously I can't, at least not and enjoy the benefits of the auto success paradigm you've advocated for.
If the detail I think will be most interesting isn't the detail that's most likely to give me an auto success that's an issue. Then there's also the issue of just going through interesting details again and again looking for the same piece of info.
ME: I try to recall troll info from the library
DM: You don't
ME: I try to recall troll info from the bar
DM: You don't
ME: I try to recall troll info from church sermons
DM: You don't
ME: I try to recall troll info from theatre
DM: You don't
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I just wanna roll each of those approaches into a single approach. Why would you force me to go through each one?