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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForceUser" data-source="post: 930942" data-attributes="member: 2785">IMC players make all their own rolls except for the occasional Spot and Sense Motive. It's seems sort of silly to me as a DM to tell a player "Make a Spot check." and then say "Um, no, you didn't see anything. Carry on." Instead, in such situations, I secretly make the Spot check for the PC using his modifier, then if he noticed something I'd tell him. If the player tells me "I want to look around." then he can roll his own Spot check because he's actively trying to notice things. Along those lines, when an NPC lies to a PC or is otherwise acting fishy and the player doesn't think to ask, I might make the opposed Sense Motive vs Bluff behind the screen, and if the PC wins I'll pass that player a post-it note saying something like "You think he's lying to you." Then the player can roleplay appropriately from there. Social skills can be forgotten in a good roleplaying moment, so as a DM I try to remember for the player if he forgets that his character is especially intimidating or sly. Following that train of thought, I never make anyone roll a die for something they'd succeed at if they took 10 (as long as it's not in combat, of course). I try to keep unneccessary die rolls to a minimum, and one way to do that is to say, "Hmm, this PC has 10 ranks in Knowledge (religion), and the DC to know that this is a ghast instead of a ghoul is 15, so I'm just going to give it to him." I consider that a perk of having lots of ranks in a skill, and plus it helps the story run more smoothly. The mechanic of taking 10 is still there and I am conscious of it as DM, but I just push it to the background until the PCs need to make rolls.</blockquote>

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