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<blockquote data-quote="Phazonfish" data-source="post: 7291550" data-attributes="member: 6855766"><p>I don't think we do; there's a difference between "trustworthy" and "capable of doing no wrong". If I don't trust someone in that situation, it's not necessarily because I don't trust them in general, it's because poisoning the well makes ANY decision they make dubious. Them getting the information ahead of time just sets the whole situation up for failure.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't think you understand the situation fully. You say things like "if I had already decided which one to pick" but you never had the opportunity to pick because you weren't told the options because you rolled before you could be told. Your stated default response of allowing the DM to pick is a healthy attitude, but not all players are you, so allowing pre-rolling is just setting up for the time where someone throws a fit because the DM picked for them. Maybe you run with players where this will never happen. That's fine, but not the case for everyone.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I mean, you can't just always assume total competence; before we even start playing, should we just assume the characters did everything right, end of story, pack up and call it a day?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This would be a nice "I think we understand each other well enough, let's end here" moment if you had simply written that in a manner other than that of a reluctant apology that a child only gives because his parents made him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Phazonfish, post: 7291550, member: 6855766"] I don't think we do; there's a difference between "trustworthy" and "capable of doing no wrong". If I don't trust someone in that situation, it's not necessarily because I don't trust them in general, it's because poisoning the well makes ANY decision they make dubious. Them getting the information ahead of time just sets the whole situation up for failure. I don't think you understand the situation fully. You say things like "if I had already decided which one to pick" but you never had the opportunity to pick because you weren't told the options because you rolled before you could be told. Your stated default response of allowing the DM to pick is a healthy attitude, but not all players are you, so allowing pre-rolling is just setting up for the time where someone throws a fit because the DM picked for them. Maybe you run with players where this will never happen. That's fine, but not the case for everyone. I mean, you can't just always assume total competence; before we even start playing, should we just assume the characters did everything right, end of story, pack up and call it a day? This would be a nice "I think we understand each other well enough, let's end here" moment if you had simply written that in a manner other than that of a reluctant apology that a child only gives because his parents made him. [/QUOTE]
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