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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8478286" data-attributes="member: 86653">To each their own. I basically despise most rules, but especially D&amp;D's rules. They're largely cruft that could be jettisoned and nothing important would be lost. They're a scaffolding that gets in the way more than they help, in my experience.Well, anything less than utterly catastrophic would matter less and less. So the need to know if it's true or false diminishes. If someone stole a cheese wheel from the cheesemonger...no one but the cheesemonger will care. If your NPC is hiring me to find the cheese wheel, I'll play along as long as I can to get paid, the truth value of the statement be damned. Bottom line is rolling to find out is kind of a bad crutch. If the player rolls high, they'll assume that whatever you tell them is true. If they roll low, they'll assume that whatever you tell them is false. It's a great way to mess with your players, but as a means to relaying accurate information from the DM to the players, it's really kinda bad.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 8478286, member: 86653"] To each their own. I basically despise most rules, but especially D&D's rules. They're largely cruft that could be jettisoned and nothing important would be lost. They're a scaffolding that gets in the way more than they help, in my experience. Well, anything less than utterly catastrophic would matter less and less. So the need to know if it's true or false diminishes. If someone stole a cheese wheel from the cheesemonger...no one but the cheesemonger will care. If your NPC is hiring me to find the cheese wheel, I'll play along as long as I can to get paid, the truth value of the statement be damned. Bottom line is rolling to find out is kind of a bad crutch. If the player rolls high, they'll assume that whatever you tell them is true. If they roll low, they'll assume that whatever you tell them is false. It's a great way to mess with your players, but as a means to relaying accurate information from the DM to the players, it's really kinda bad. [/QUOTE]

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