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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 8161757" data-attributes="member: 6795602">Yes it is.  The reasons have even been covered about 10x now.CorrectDepends on how zoomed in you want to get.  When a character forages in say 5e, it's typically being done in a large expanse of wilderness.  Because 5e as written doesn't have rolls occur unless there is uncertainty, then the only way a player rolls is if the DM determines there's a chance he could forage something to eat which would imply that some source of food is in his vicinity.  If there's no source of food in his vicinity (or no source he would be capable of discovering) then he doesn't even get a roll.  So by the time there is a roll in 5e it's already defacto established that food is in the vicinity.  (*As always with D&D some playstyles vary and some DM's will call for some rolls even if there is no uncertainty).  Neither of those is true for my approach.  It's almost like you so much want to stuff me into a particular box that you don't actually listen to what I'm saying.With the caveat that the DM could say, well actually this forest is desolate and barren.  Are you sure you would try to forage in such a place?  (Ideally this detail would come up before player action declarations - but DM's can forget to mention important details at times or the player could have been distracted when they DM gave that detail).But yes, part of medieval fantasy is that a typical forest will have food you can forage.  So yes, it's perfectly acceptable for players to imagine that in the absence of any further description about the forest.  Yes.  Evard's tower is a very specific fantasy element.  A river having a bridge is pretty hit and miss.  So quite different things.Would have saved us alot of time if you would have led with this <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I don't have problems with dissociated mechanics like hp, etc.  So I don't think it's the dissociative part that's my problem.</blockquote>

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