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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9052739" data-attributes="member: 29398">Well, there does seem to be an underlying sense of that, and you know what?&nbsp; In principle, it's not wrong.&nbsp; In general an action declaration that states both what you're doing and how you're doing it is better than one which doesn't.That said, it's also not a standard to which everyone is willing to adhere every time or even any time.&nbsp; For a lot of players, &quot;I smash the vase&quot; or &quot;I punch the guard in the face&quot; or &quot;I open the door&quot; is more than good enough most of the time.&nbsp; Further, there's many degrees of detail involved in the &quot;how you're doing it&quot; piece even when it is given; consider the difference between &quot;I smash the vase with my axe&quot; and &quot;I smash the vase with my axe using a down-angled left-to-right swing at three-quarters strength and employing the Tofflich technique* for my grip.&quot;The disputes come around who gets to fill in any details skipped during declaration.&nbsp; For me, if the player doesn't give the details I take it that a) the player isn't concerned with the details and b) the right to fill in those details has been ceded to one or both of me-as-DM or the game rules.* - whatever that is. I just made it up. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9052739, member: 29398"] Well, there does seem to be an underlying sense of that, and you know what? In principle, it's not wrong. In general an action declaration that states both what you're doing and how you're doing it is better than one which doesn't. That said, it's also not a standard to which everyone is willing to adhere every time or even any time. For a lot of players, "I smash the vase" or "I punch the guard in the face" or "I open the door" is more than good enough most of the time. Further, there's many degrees of detail involved in the "how you're doing it" piece even when it is given; consider the difference between "I smash the vase with my axe" and "I smash the vase with my axe using a down-angled left-to-right swing at three-quarters strength and employing the Tofflich technique* for my grip." The disputes come around who gets to fill in any details skipped during declaration. For me, if the player doesn't give the details I take it that a) the player isn't concerned with the details and b) the right to fill in those details has been ceded to one or both of me-as-DM or the game rules. * - whatever that is. I just made it up. :) [/QUOTE]

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