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Message: <blockquote data-quote="N'raac" data-source="post: 6197791" data-attributes="member: 6681948">He has decided that he has this one skill, so that one skill should be the solution every time. Sometimes, that one skill is not the solution. Sometimes, the means to resolve the challenge is not obvious and staring you in the face.So what is the motivation of thematic heft of the PC's wishing to see the King? The fact that all of the events from character creation to arrival at the King's Court to see the chamberlain has not been spelled out in detail does not mean the encounter is meaningless, random fluff.  Perhaps the theme is the Right of Kings, and of the Nobility, so the Chamberlain is, thematically, not going to let a bunch of commoners chat their way in to see the King.I'd suggest the clear math of 4e encounter design which you have described suggests that you already have a pretty clear conception of how the situation will resolve by virtue of building the encounter to a certain level of challenge.  You are pretty confident, for example, that the PC's will win - you can't envision a TPK arising. When, once, it did you overrode those results to enable the characters to survive.  That seems like a preconceived expectation of the outcome, and an override of the mechanics to produce it.So he is to hand the answers to you on a silver platter.  OK, so let's assume he tells you exactly that. Is it true, or is he lying to get rid of you? Should the player, and through him the character, know with certainty whether his check was successful or a failure?  I see no reason he should.But I get the sense that, in your preferred game, the players should have omniscience over the entire game world.  Not the game I want to play in, frankly.  Let my character learn the answers through play.  I am satisfied to learn them along with him, rather than play a character burning with desire to learn the secrets of the world while already knowing them as a player.</blockquote>

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