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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9240610" data-attributes="member: 23751"><p>This was the conversation.</p><p></p><p>Me: No DM with a grain of salt is going to sit there and make you roll 45 times if it's inevitably going to open. There would be no roll and you open it.</p><p></p><p>You: Asserting that "no DM with a grain of salt" would do X is not better than calling something "badwrongfun".</p><p></p><p>Me: If a DM made me roll 45 times until I finally got that natural 20 rather than just saying, "It takes you a while, but the lock eventually opens", I'd walk out of the game.</p><p></p><p>That was the context. Being made to roll 45 times rather than just saying no roll and opening the lock. That would be absolute torture for everyone I have ever gamed with and would be badwrongfun for me. </p><p></p><p>And I stand by the grain of salt comment. I don't think that a mediocre or better DM is going to make someone roll 45 times to open a lock that will inevitably be unlocked. Especially when RAW is to not have a roll under those circumstances.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 9240610, member: 23751"] This was the conversation. Me: No DM with a grain of salt is going to sit there and make you roll 45 times if it's inevitably going to open. There would be no roll and you open it. You: Asserting that "no DM with a grain of salt" would do X is not better than calling something "badwrongfun". Me: If a DM made me roll 45 times until I finally got that natural 20 rather than just saying, "It takes you a while, but the lock eventually opens", I'd walk out of the game. That was the context. Being made to roll 45 times rather than just saying no roll and opening the lock. That would be absolute torture for everyone I have ever gamed with and would be badwrongfun for me. And I stand by the grain of salt comment. I don't think that a mediocre or better DM is going to make someone roll 45 times to open a lock that will inevitably be unlocked. Especially when RAW is to not have a roll under those circumstances. [/QUOTE]
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