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I do agree that it is not an absolute -- few things are! But my experience running CoC is that the genre shows people investigating...

Sure. And I do. (And sometimes the answer is, "Ummm....I, you know, Persuade.") The point I was making is that so many players seem...

My PF1 group usually plays like that. Declare what they wanna do and what skill they wanna use. Not my personal preference, but that...

Not to my mind. Encounter rolls determine the diagetic likelihood of having an encounter in a particular area. Makes sense for the...

I also think that "the answer is not on your character sheet" thing is part of it. When the solution is on your character sheet...when...

I also thought that "I don't understand, but I also do understand and disagree" to be an interesting position to take. Very....Taoist.

OP clarified their concerns pretty well over the course of the first page. Consequence-free skill rolls incentivizes 'me too' pile-ons...

That isn't my experience, at least not with experienced players new to my table. And not just perception. "I'll try to persuade him!"...

My contention is that the latter barely even qualifies as adventure design outside of maybe a choose your own adventure book. Obviously...

I mean, they aren't meaningful in the scope of the adventure, and in being an actual determiner of a real "success-failure" fork in the...

It's funny you should say that because I find that a lot of old school adventures are way better about this that some other games. Here...

For secret doors, my preferred solution, although it's a lot of work, is to telegraph their presence so that observant players search in...

I pretty much do this. I also encourage players to take initiative and ask me the DM for information like "with my sage background...

I mean, I have a lot more sympathy for the argument of “passive noticing skills are bad” than “all skills are bad”.

When I was a little kid, I kinda felt that way. As an adult, I think it's just a product of Elmore's art style (long hair, mustaches...