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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7801531" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Yeah, I get that for sure. The difference between an action and an ability check is not lost on me, it’s just that in this situation the functional difference seems minimal to me. There are definitely some advantages to phrasing lore recall in action form - as mentioned, it reveals character background details in a fairly organic way. It also gives the DM something to adjudicate, as opposed to just approving or disapproving a request to make a check. But I still dislike it for the same reasons I dislike players asking for checks. It doesn’t feel like the character is actually doing anything. To me, a player describing an act of recollection and a player asking to make a knowledge check come from the same place - either I haven’t sufficiently described something in the environment and they want more information about it, or they think they know something out of character and want permission to act on that knowledge. They’ve just found a way to word that request that makes it superficially resemble the declaration of an action.At least, that’s how it feels to me. Clearly it works well in your games, and that’s awesome. Just wouldn’t be my choice.</blockquote>