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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8278469" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Sure, that’s pretty tangential to the point though, which is that players and DMs shouldn’t be expected to have specialized knowledge like that to play the game. Reasonable specificity based on a layman’s understanding of the task at hand should suffice.I am doing exactly the opposite. The DM should be highly active in describing the environment and the effects of the player’s actions on it. If they are not, I agree that it leads to rather boring gameplay as the players lack sufficient information to make decisions and describe their characters’ actions. What I am advocating for is the DM not to step on the player’s toes by describing their actions for them.I’ve read that article, it’s one of my favorites, and it’s advocating for exactly what I am advocating for. He completes the full pattern of play every round, describing the environment, the effects of the actions the players describe, and then describing the environment again. He does describe the PCs actions too much for my taste, but the basic principles are sound.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8278469, member: 6779196"] Sure, that’s pretty tangential to the point though, which is that players and DMs shouldn’t be expected to have specialized knowledge like that to play the game. Reasonable specificity based on a layman’s understanding of the task at hand should suffice. I am doing exactly the opposite. The DM should be highly active in describing the environment and the effects of the player’s actions on it. If they are not, I agree that it leads to rather boring gameplay as the players lack sufficient information to make decisions and describe their characters’ actions. What I am advocating for is the DM not to step on the player’s toes by describing their actions for them. I’ve read that article, it’s one of my favorites, and it’s advocating for exactly what I am advocating for. He completes the full pattern of play every round, describing the environment, the effects of the actions the players describe, and then describing the environment again. He does describe the PCs actions too much for my taste, but the basic principles are sound. [/QUOTE]

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