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At Your 5E Table, How Is It Agreed upon That the PCs Do Stuff Other than Attack?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 9062336" data-attributes="member: 6787503"><p>I think awareness of the distinction is beneficial in a few ways. Describing their character’s goal/intention lets players voice their hopes for the outcome of their character’s action, giving them a means to direct the course of the fiction and to give definition to the conflict in which their characters are engaged. Describing their character’s task/approach/action paints a clear picture grounded in the fiction of what their character is doing to achieve that goal.</p><p></p><p>That being said, I included those two elements in the poll because I wanted to focus on what the player is actually saying at the table to play their character, but I also wanted to avoid using the more general “action declaration” because there's clearly a subset of respondents who feel that by asking questions or saying something like, "I make a Wisdom check," that they're making an action declaration of sorts even though they're stating neither what their character is trying to accomplish nor how they go about the attempt, and I didn't want imply they're not participating in the game as fully as someone who's making a more formal declaration.</p><p></p><p>If the distinction is unimportant to you, feel free to respond to the poll as if it only had five options instead of nine by lumping together the first six options into two groups, one in which the player rolls at will and another where the DM calls for a roll.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hriston, post: 9062336, member: 6787503"] I think awareness of the distinction is beneficial in a few ways. Describing their character’s goal/intention lets players voice their hopes for the outcome of their character’s action, giving them a means to direct the course of the fiction and to give definition to the conflict in which their characters are engaged. Describing their character’s task/approach/action paints a clear picture grounded in the fiction of what their character is doing to achieve that goal. That being said, I included those two elements in the poll because I wanted to focus on what the player is actually saying at the table to play their character, but I also wanted to avoid using the more general “action declaration” because there's clearly a subset of respondents who feel that by asking questions or saying something like, "I make a Wisdom check," that they're making an action declaration of sorts even though they're stating neither what their character is trying to accomplish nor how they go about the attempt, and I didn't want imply they're not participating in the game as fully as someone who's making a more formal declaration. If the distinction is unimportant to you, feel free to respond to the poll as if it only had five options instead of nine by lumping together the first six options into two groups, one in which the player rolls at will and another where the DM calls for a roll. [/QUOTE]
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