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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6175765" data-attributes="member: 17106">In that the DM is sharing it. Every piece of communication between a DM and a player is basically the answer to this question.IIRC, the 3.0 DMG gave an example of a check for a check that was too easy to be worth rolling (tying one's shoes), simply because the DC would be so low that the character could not fail.That is to say, simply because a die is not rolled for every action, does not mean that the underlying rules are not modeling the reality. The DM may decide that a DC is too low, perhaps allowing the character to take 10, but even if not explicitly spelled out, this is still what is happening; every action is described by a d20 check. Just as every object that is in the game world has a hardness value and every creature has hit dice and all the accompanying statistics, whether the DM specifically enumerates these values or not.I don't see that contentiousness really plays into it that much.I was a regular at WotC before here, and it pretty much descended into chaos and hasn't recovered. I was never on rpgnet, but it's never struck me as being moderated as well as ENW and I've definitely seen enough trolling not to bother joining. Not a huge fan of Paizo's boards either.</blockquote>