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"Confidence is high that there's nothing here". First off, for things like searches I-as-DM do the rolling, in large part to avoid that...

For me, these examples are just "skill" combining player and character together: the player is thinking as the character would. Great...

I'm glad you highlighted that, because there are multiple meanings of "players skill" and sometimes people debating it are using...

They have to tell me they're hunting and pecking, and sometimes give some specifics as to how they're going about it, an then the dice...

I'll sometimes do post-mortems on adventures, usually if-when they're no longer accessible e.g. they were off-plane or the whole dungeon...

I regularly mock/tease the players in my TB2e game when they miss good treasure hauls. Which is something they seem to have a knack for...

I'll rarely if ever do the second type of reveal unless I can somehow know for sure that no adventuring party is ever going back there...

When searching the Vizier's chambers, sure. Not much help with the secret door at the other end - which the party walked past on their...

Maybe I just have terible sense of direction, but I don't think most people are actually good at remember routes in complex, largely...

Yes. As in, both in parallel: the players are experiencing the same puzzle the characters are.

He asked how other people handle mapping at their table. “I don’t, because my players don’t enjoy it” is a perfectly fine answer. “You...

I am a land surveyor by trade. I use maps a lot. It is easy to get turned around even when you have one on hand. But really this isn't...

Never got turned around in a school or hospital?

Well, yes it does add to the verisimilitude of the exploration in that, unless the place is tiny, without a map they've a half-decent...

One element I've put into dungeons a few times where the owners wanted some serious defenses are parallel passages each starting in...