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If an NPC is telling the truth, what's the Insight DC to know they're telling the truth?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bawylie" data-source="post: 7591536" data-attributes="member: 6776133"><p>Well that’s interesting. And I suppose I could posit you a half dozen “what-ifs” and that you might answer something like “that’s why ‘I roll perception’ works in all cases.” Fair enough - it does work.</p><p></p><p>But let’s say I’m DM-ing a game and you’re a player. As a table, we’ve agreed (for whatever reason; mystery, whatever) that I will make all dice rolls behind the screen for all players and NPCs alike. All the players will need to do is say what they’re characters are doing in the game world. Does/would that change how you play?</p><p></p><p>I ask this because when I first started I was 8 years old and playing with the neighbor boys, he oldest brother was the DM (and this was the old AD&D) and he kept literally everything behind the screen, rolling all checks. Also we only had one set of dice, and maybe that was a big reason he rolled everything. Later in life when I played 2nd edition onward, the ThAC0 roll and the attack matrix were player info and we did get into the habit of calling rolls instead of stating actions. Only since like 4E have I (and my tables) gone back to narrating actions. So I just wondered whether “who rolls” would change the way you might approach the game world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bawylie, post: 7591536, member: 6776133"] Well that’s interesting. And I suppose I could posit you a half dozen “what-ifs” and that you might answer something like “that’s why ‘I roll perception’ works in all cases.” Fair enough - it does work. But let’s say I’m DM-ing a game and you’re a player. As a table, we’ve agreed (for whatever reason; mystery, whatever) that I will make all dice rolls behind the screen for all players and NPCs alike. All the players will need to do is say what they’re characters are doing in the game world. Does/would that change how you play? I ask this because when I first started I was 8 years old and playing with the neighbor boys, he oldest brother was the DM (and this was the old AD&D) and he kept literally everything behind the screen, rolling all checks. Also we only had one set of dice, and maybe that was a big reason he rolled everything. Later in life when I played 2nd edition onward, the ThAC0 roll and the attack matrix were player info and we did get into the habit of calling rolls instead of stating actions. Only since like 4E have I (and my tables) gone back to narrating actions. So I just wondered whether “who rolls” would change the way you might approach the game world. [/QUOTE]
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