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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7806769" data-attributes="member: 29398">Some problems here:1. The player/PC might not ever know or realize when-if it matters.&nbsp; Example here would be that a failure to read the runes on the stones costs the party a clue that would have later provided a nice short-cut to completing their mission.&nbsp; When would this check ever be rolled?2. Following on from 1, if the check isn't made at the time information like this might/might not be presented, you wind up with a rather crazy situation where the PCs have a level of knowledge that neither the players nor DM are aware of!3. Real-world time.&nbsp; If there's a six-session postponement between the check-causing event (say, reading the rune-stones) and the rolled check (whwnever that reading would first cause a major change in course) many things such as modifying factors in that specific instance will likely have been forgotten by both player and DM alike; assuming the DM even remembers to call for the check so long after the fact.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7806769, member: 29398"] Some problems here: 1. The player/PC might not ever know or realize when-if it matters. Example here would be that a failure to read the runes on the stones costs the party a clue that would have later provided a nice short-cut to completing their mission. When would this check ever be rolled? 2. Following on from 1, if the check isn't made at the time information like this might/might not be presented, you wind up with a rather crazy situation where the PCs have a level of knowledge that neither the players nor DM are aware of! 3. Real-world time. If there's a six-session postponement between the check-causing event (say, reading the rune-stones) and the rolled check (whwnever that reading would first cause a major change in course) many things such as modifying factors in that specific instance will likely have been forgotten by both player and DM alike; assuming the DM even remembers to call for the check so long after the fact. [/QUOTE]

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