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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JonWake" data-source="post: 5812417" data-attributes="member: 95255">'Mother May I' is a completely made up thing, and about as insulting as calling 4e a 'Boardgame with Narration'.  It's not a thing--it's a thing crappy DMs do. Crappy 4e play is no more a metric of gameplay than crappy not-4e play. And it sounds like the DM has some information that the players don't have, like say, a list of passive perception scores or climb checks for an area, and the players don't have to roll because their ability scores are above this base level. If these levels are consistent (which is the point of having them written down), the players learn that there are some things they can just do.</blockquote>