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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9617213" data-attributes="member: 6785785">He didn't? Why did he pick that stat block? Assuming the assassin has been sent by some enemy of the PCs', would that enemy know the party's capabilities and dispatch an assassin that could conceivably succeed at the task? Is the assassin disciplined enough and is he being paid enough to spend months tracking the PCs? Does the assassin have any personal entanglements that may prevent him from fulfilling the contract, or distract him from doing so? This is all decided by the GM. With full knowledge of the players' capabilities and their character abilities and location and destination and everything else. I don't really see how that's possible. Because afterward, as a player in Torchbearer, I can look at the die roll, see the effect of the +1, and know why the spell failed to work. In 5e, that is likely not going to be the case unless the DM decides to share all the decisions he made that led to this point and why he made them. That doesn't change what I said. Aetherial Premonitions works exactly as described. The players can literally observe everything that goes into it, and will know if it succeeded or failed based on a die roll. Alarm may or may not work, and the reasons for that may be entirely hidden from the players. This is because the process potentially involves so much input from the DM. I don't want to take away anything. I'm describing why I think clear and accurate procedures, observable to the players, are preferrable to me than processes that are muddy, and involve many points of potentially arbitrary decision making by the DM. I'm not the one who tried to label one thing abstraction and not another!Low myth is the most powerful tool in a railroader's arsenal? More powerful that the GM simply being able to decide anything anytime? Okay, dude.</blockquote>

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