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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8718349" data-attributes="member: 177">You didn't answer the question - Do you make it obvious that it matters?  Do you give advantage or disadvantage on the roll, or the like?At the moment it sounds like the description is a simple gate - "You must give a description to get a response".  But if the description does not clearly influence the response in a way the players can perceive, they have no reason to be interested in the description.  Putting thought or effort into it does not seem to have a payoff.  And that the players perceive the difference is terribly important.  If it is secret or opaque, again, there's not a lot of point, to them.They are not gong to engage with it if it is simply a checkbox item you have placed there "just because".  You mention upthread about traps and such - fine, let us discuss that.  How often do those things happen?</blockquote>