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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7315074" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Sounds like a good game mechanic.Sure! That’s a factor the characters in the world would need to consider, and as such, One the players should need to consider.It’s not that the players don’t have the chance to get an actual advantage without sacrificing something. It’s that they have to do something beyond “the same thing we were doing anyway, but with Advantage” to get an advantage. And doing something means making a conscious choice, which usually means sacrificing your ability to take other options. I’ll give the players advantage at avoiding the ambush for describing how they avoid it. Provided, of course, that their approach to avoiding thd ambush has a chance of succeeding at helping them avoid it, a chance of not helping them avoid it, and takes advantage of the circumstances such that they would have a better chance of avoiding the ambush this way than they would simply by staying alert and aware. Now, if those conditions are satisfied in a way that doesn’t come at a tradeoff, I’m not going to make one up. They earned that advantage. But more often than not, making a choice to take advantage of one part of your circumstances means not taking advantage of another. In a very literal sense, it costs you the opportunity of the options you didn’t take.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7315074, member: 6779196"] Sounds like a good game mechanic. Sure! That’s a factor the characters in the world would need to consider, and as such, One the players should need to consider. It’s not that the players don’t have the chance to get an actual advantage without sacrificing something. It’s that they have to [i]do[/i] something beyond “the same thing we were doing anyway, but with Advantage” to get an advantage. And doing something means making a conscious choice, which usually means sacrificing your ability to take other options. I’ll give the players advantage at avoiding the ambush for describing how they avoid it. Provided, of course, that their approach to avoiding thd ambush has a chance of succeeding at helping them avoid it, a chance of not helping them avoid it, and takes advantage of the circumstances such that they would have a better chance of avoiding the ambush this way than they would simply by staying alert and aware. Now, if those conditions are satisfied in a way that doesn’t come at a tradeoff, I’m not going to make one up. They earned that advantage. But more often than not, making a choice to take advantage of one part of your circumstances means not taking advantage of another. In a very literal sense, it costs you the opportunity of the options you didn’t take. [/QUOTE]

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