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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheFindus" data-source="post: 6730289" data-attributes="member: 75791">You can most certainly play that way. But a character meets the setting all the time during play. I cannot think of a meaningful roll in play that only affects the PC. Any roll also affects the setting. So what you are saying means that a DM can roll the dice for a player at any time, really, just because "the rubber meets the road" and that is the DMs purview. And where does this stop: Attack rolls? Saves? Class and Race? All these things interact with the setting. So with this reasoning, the DM could roll any of that and not let the player know the results!Coming back to rolling in secret for the players in the situation mentioned in this thread:Any DM I choose to play with will not have that power because the groups of players I usually play with will not give this power to him or her. And I as a DM would not want to play that way either. DMs, just like governments, need to be reigned in. Checks and balances. Too much power is just not healthy.One comes across a multitude of playing styles in forums like this. And it is always good to read about how other people handle things - however different - because one can learn something new some of the time. Unfortunately, this is not one of these moments for me.</blockquote>