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Message: <blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7801479" data-attributes="member: 6919838">See, not getting into mimics, the things you describe there are just scenes to me, not telegraphing. Teasing the dragons breath is now recharged - yep. I treat the recharge as indicating its available next turn so folks might see it or not depends on character and scene. The state of the cleanliness of the area and what it might mean, again, likely some reference to passive scores or an outright investigation. If the walls "fresh masonry" is obvious its obvious.I mean you seem to have switched from inobvioys vs hidden to obvious but "what does it mean?"When a secret door is put in my setup and not telegraphed, that's not a call out to random checks everywhere. It's a call out to say there being a thing that might come out from negotiation or that comes out when an NPC about to die shouts a plea to spare it. Or maybe its gonna come out because of certain divinations snd other abilities the PCs might use. Its got a place in the fiction and framing but one that includes "not being telegraphed". To me, once one accepts that you should telegraph by default or in all cases, a lot of options are lost.The glowing blue aura for video games for interactive stuff is not a technique I find good to metaphorically adopt across the board. But thsts me.</blockquote>