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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dmnqwk" data-source="post: 6785977" data-attributes="member: 6804204">Whatever you do, you are modifying the behaviour of the ability because it goes against the standard DM's ability to hide their rolls. Cutting Words is not a one off ability, there are quite a few in the PHB which work off a roll and being able to react before determining hit/miss or pass/fail, so it's important a player receive as much information as required to make it work, or the DM needs to work with the players to modify the abilities to allow fairness on all sides.I think if you're going to hide your rolls from a player and deny them the opportunity described in the book, you just need to house rule it before the player joins - screwing them out of the ability may cause animosity and resentment that you're picking on their class (I mean, the Bard works off this kind of ability with Inspiration all the time so it's very much screwing their class over) but at the same token, they might not really care or know enough to worry.Whatever happens, discuss it with your players rather than other DMs because it really comes down to you know you need to change something and unless your players worry about it, you don't have to either.</blockquote>