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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7297988" data-attributes="member: 6704184">You’re quite welcome. I do disagree with parts of your method, but only in terms of thinking that insistence on sticking to that protocol at all times may be unnecessary, and that ignoring the roll even if it is what you would have called for anyway serves no purpose other than to “correct” behavior with negative reinforcement, which can come across as paternalistic. I think that is probably part of the source of your issue with the other poster. They seem to have strongly read that paternalistic mindset some DMs have toward players into your posts. I will say that I don’t think that you actually have that mindset. Regardless of paternalistic mindsets or lack of same, to me it reaches beyond the authority of the DM to engage in negative reinforcement for behavioral correction, and I do beleive that punishing player actions with in game consequences is *very* bad DMing. Again, though, I don’t think you’ve said that you do so. To me, it’s both easier and better to, in cases where there is a roll coming, to simply correct them on what roll they aren’t making, and tell them to add their appropriate modifier to the d20 roll they just made, rather than ignoring the roll and having them make a new one.</blockquote>