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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9415721" data-attributes="member: 42582">The 4e DMG 2 discusses this - it contrasts a player asking or prompting the GM, with a player making a direct assertion.I think that, generally, direct assertion or suggestion is preferable as the table gets its groove, just because it preserves immediacy and enhances player participation.In play it's very seamless.The player of the wizard in my 4e D&D game would often make assertions about how magic works, either in general or in relation to a particular magical effect, and then declare actions that related to that. It made complete sense in the fiction that this character - with an extremely high Arcana bonus, and eventually a Sage of Ages - would know that sort of thing. It added colour. And it gradually built up this "theory" of magic and its place in the world.All good stuff!But I don't see any bright line here - there are a lot of ways, in a conversation, to introduce an idea and see if others take it up. Even back in his DMG (1978), Gygax had an example of a player taking the lead in suggesting the existence of a bit of terrain that would suit the castle the player wants their PC to build.</blockquote>