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Message: <blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7314926" data-attributes="member: 6919838">first, thanks for your input. it is appreciated.Second, i see the elements you describe quite differently and think maybe i did not communicate it well enough.First yes they described how to gain advantage but... if those actions do not cost anything, have no consequences of their own, how then does not always having advantage on the road for ambushes become standard practice? if you look at many of the other cases of method produce advantage in the game they often come with a corresponding "consequence" - use action to gain disadvantage on attacks against you - use second character help to gain advantage on attack or skills checks - etc. There are not many cases described within the rules where all you need is to basically ask for advantage (by means of description) and gain it without any other corresponding consequence. The cases where it seems you do, say melee attacks against a prone target - the circumstance gives you advantage without necessarily any specific description on your part.But to a more specific case - actions and choices have consequences and those consequences matter. if moving slowly and cautiously enough to more easily spot advantages matters, then the impacts and consequences of moving in that way have to apply good and bad. Chasing after a moving force can leave you open for ambush if they left one behind and moving cautiously and slowly to watch for those means you don  not keep up as well with the main group. it seems obvious this is a logical consequence and trade-off of speed vs safety with good and bad on both sides.As for bandits vs bugbears - sorry -i made no such reference. maybe it works differently in your games but in mine travelling slowly and cautiously does not leave you vulnerable based on what magic word you chose to use to describe your enemies. You say bandits, great, you still get the same cautious and wary approach when i saw "bugbears". no need for me to assume and insert some "gotcha" thing based on the names you chose to use. Slowly and cautiously looking for enemies is good enough... you are sacrificing speed and rate of travel.As for your pegasus and your dragonnette - those sound pretty ridiculous to me but have nothing to do with consequences of actions. It seems like both are cases where your character already did what was needed to gain the pegasus or the egg and after the fact the Gm started hitting you with direct combat penalties. That is different by far from a case where while taking voluntarily specific actions you must suffer both the positive and negative results of those actions. I wont guess what was in your GMs minds when they did those things, but that is different from saying "you chose to move slowly so you get these consequences (some good, some bad) while doing so." or at least, that is how i see it.Thanks again.</blockquote>

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