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<blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7801549" data-attributes="member: 6919838">At this point the term telegraph is being stretched so far as to be meaningless.That has come to this point before in other threads, maybe this one even. I look at it this way.Any scene with an obstacle that &quot;anyone&quot; can overcome with no reference to the character in my games is not gonna be important. Its not gonna be one that eats up our valuable screen time. So, a &quot;secret door&quot; thats telegraphed in its scene wont be that intrinsically important. The players might be able to use it in ways that help - maybe its a good spot to rest - but its not that big a feature.Its scenery and so has import by what it reveals and how you use it.The notion some have expressed that the finding or missing is no fun and the key fun is what happens once they find it - that to me is amazingly limited and hits a few of my peeves. So i dont use that in my games. I rarely play in games where thats the expectation. But thats me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="5ekyu, post: 7801549, member: 6919838"] At this point the term telegraph is being stretched so far as to be meaningless. That has come to this point before in other threads, maybe this one even. I look at it this way. Any scene with an obstacle that "anyone" can overcome with no reference to the character in my games is [B]not[/B] gonna be important. Its not gonna be one that eats up our valuable screen time. So, a "secret door" thats telegraphed in its scene wont be that intrinsically important. The players might be able to use it in ways that help - maybe its a good spot to rest - but its not that big a feature. Its scenery and so has import by what it reveals and how you use it. The notion some have expressed that the finding or missing is no fun and the key fun is what happens once they find it - that to me is amazingly limited and hits a few of my peeves. So i dont use that in my games. I rarely play in games where thats the expectation. But thats me. [/QUOTE]

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