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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6738560">That's great.  I feel like you're taking this conversation as though I'm talking at you as though you are doing something wrong in your games and it's starting to make me feel like this is more of an argument than a discussion as I've stated clearly I'm not making judgments.  My examples are just off-the-cuff examples.  They're not supposed to be taken as the correct, or incorrect way to play.  I play the way I do largely because I'm my own worst enemy.  I worked really really hard to create this stuff for the players.  To make even the most mundane of mazes creative and engaging and fun.  But because I put so much effort into it, I really want my players to find out all about it....but I don't want to spoil it, or take agency away from them by giving something away they could have worked to achieve and been rewarded for.  So I play on the side of caution and tell players less rather than more and encourage them to work for the answer instead of just ask for it.  This is especially fun for me when I get players who don't normally role-play much to get into the spirit of things by acting out their question in-character instead of simply asking me out of character.  It may not require a roll in-game any more than out of game, but I find the game more enjoyable when Bob says: "I go take a look at each door." and I tell him about the doors, as opposed to Bob's player going "What do the doors look like?"</blockquote>

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