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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 8724978" data-attributes="member: 67338">okay my phraseing was bad. I would not set up part of the game where in order to continue to part of the adventure (I at least hope what ever is behind the book case or tapestry is optional extra and not the goal of the dungeon/encounter site) realys on then saying the words "I look behind the ______" if I had to do this (say running an adventure) I would default to what the adventure wrote... but I would never plan this way...if there is something hidden as just 'move X to open" I would just give it to the perceptive character... "Oh and X notices Y"I do not understand the fun of having a room to search and having to go 1 by 1 "I check under the bed" "I check behind the night stand" "I check under the carpet" "I check behind the armour"  "I check behind the book shelf...YATZEE!" like what do you do if no one says the right thing to look behind? again... if they asked to search (with any level of description) and I had them roll (perception or investigation or what ever) and they didn't hit the DC... they searched everywhere there would be no reason to keep moving things. I don't understand in what circumstance someone searches, finds nothing, BUT then looks behind the tapestry (and why was looking and searching not doing that already?)they don't... the whole point of the general action is to avoid the description... in all of these years I never had a player switch from "I don't want to RP this can we skip" to "Wait now that i failed I want to RP this to try again" I don't know how to handle this... I mean why would they care enough to want a second bite at the apple if they didn't care enough to RP it to begin with?</blockquote>

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