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<blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7310125" data-attributes="member: 6919838">IMO stating i am expecting an ambush and looking for ambushes&quot; is not necessarily going to give you advantage and is not a sign of engaging with the world. its just a claim.Do you give advantages for folks saying &quot;i am expecting my enemy to swing at me and am looking for his swing?&quot; Do enemies of that character suffer disadvantage when they attack him? or, if he wants to gain an edge, does the character have to provide some action that serves up an advantage - like say using his action to dodge instead of attack?If a character says &quot;i am climing the wall expecting to maybe fall and looking out for ways to not fall&quot; do they get advantage on climbing checks? or do they have to do something other than a statement of intent to not fall - like say take it slower than normal or rig up a rope or take lotsa of time banging handhold making noise or maybe getting someone else to use a rope setup to help them?&quot;I am expecting him to be telling me lies so i am looking for lies&quot; is not a statement worthy of advantage on an insight roll, its more like a request to make an insight roll and not just use the passive score.etc etc etc etc etc... how many cases do we need? maybe for each of the above those are advantages in your game and maybe everybody gets advantage a lot...&nbsp; thats fine but IMO it undervalues actual engagement... real statements of not only intent but trade-off and activities.You and i might have words when i do not give you advantage just because you made some general declaration of some sort, but those words would likely refer you back to the early discussion of how things work and what is expected and maybe even recitiation of the above examples or of other more recent cases in game.those words would be after the session of course, as at the table it would be a brief &quot;talk later&quot; and move on with maybe a sentence of reminder as to why that isn't going to cut it. (of course, when you said that initial declaration at the table, i would ask you for more specific examples like &quot;travelling more slowly&quot; etc to get an idea how you saw what you were doing as any different than your normal alertness under the circumstances.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="5ekyu, post: 7310125, member: 6919838"] IMO stating i am expecting an ambush and looking for ambushes" is not necessarily going to give you advantage and is not a sign of engaging with the world. its just a claim. Do you give advantages for folks saying "i am expecting my enemy to swing at me and am looking for his swing?" Do enemies of that character suffer disadvantage when they attack him? or, if he wants to gain an edge, does the character have to provide some action that serves up an advantage - like say using his action to dodge instead of attack? If a character says "i am climing the wall expecting to maybe fall and looking out for ways to not fall" do they get advantage on climbing checks? or do they have to do something other than a statement of intent to not fall - like say take it slower than normal or rig up a rope or take lotsa of time banging handhold making noise or maybe getting someone else to use a rope setup to help them? "I am expecting him to be telling me lies so i am looking for lies" is not a statement worthy of advantage on an insight roll, its more like a request to make an insight roll and not just use the passive score. etc etc etc etc etc... how many cases do we need? maybe for each of the above those are advantages in your game and maybe everybody gets advantage a lot... thats fine but IMO it undervalues actual engagement... real statements of not only intent but trade-off and activities. You and i might have words when i do not give you advantage just because you made some general declaration of some sort, but those words would likely refer you back to the early discussion of how things work and what is expected and maybe even recitiation of the above examples or of other more recent cases in game. those words would be after the session of course, as at the table it would be a brief "talk later" and move on with maybe a sentence of reminder as to why that isn't going to cut it. (of course, when you said that initial declaration at the table, i would ask you for more specific examples like "travelling more slowly" etc to get an idea how you saw what you were doing as any different than your normal alertness under the circumstances.) [/QUOTE]

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