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<blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 8952639" data-attributes="member: 97077">At a minimum, I need to hear a goal and approach from the player. What they are hoping to achieve and what they set about doing to achieve it with reasonable specificity. &quot;Reasonable specificity&quot; here means that I don't have to make any guesses about their character's actions. They are free to describe it in first or third person. They can be as flowery and dramatic or succinct - none of those approaches will inform what level of uncertainty I decide on or the ability check or the DC, only the goal and approach will. If they can't or won't muster even that much, I am not able to perform my role as DM to adjudicate into success or failure or call for an appropriate ability check and we're effectively at an impasse.At the end of the day, the game is basically a conversation. What I say above is the player's role in that conversation. If they don't try to perform their role, that conversation tends not to be as good as one in which everyone is doing their best to hold up their end of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="iserith, post: 8952639, member: 97077"] At a minimum, I need to hear a goal and approach from the player. What they are hoping to achieve and what they set about doing to achieve it with reasonable specificity. "Reasonable specificity" here means that I don't have to make any guesses about their character's actions. They are free to describe it in first or third person. They can be as flowery and dramatic or succinct - none of those approaches will inform what level of uncertainty I decide on or the ability check or the DC, only the goal and approach will. If they can't or won't muster even that much, I am not able to perform my role as DM to adjudicate into success or failure or call for an appropriate ability check and we're effectively at an impasse. At the end of the day, the game is basically a conversation. What I say above is the player's role in that conversation. If they don't try to perform their role, that conversation tends not to be as good as one in which everyone is doing their best to hold up their end of it. [/QUOTE]

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