Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
That doesn’t surprise me. I didn’t think Matt ran strictly with no player-initiated checks, I just know the general flow of the conversation in the show was player describes action > Matt asks for a check > Player makes check > Matt narrates the result, so it’s an easily accessible example of what such games look like in actual play. I mean, I narrate pretty differently than Matt does, and my players aren’t professional actors (well, one of them is, but the rest aren’t). But it’s a half-decent point of comparison.Oh, and just to follow up on this, I distinctly remember* things like the redhead (Matt's wife?) asking if she could do an acrobatics check to climb a tree. Can I quote you episode and time? No. But IIRC, he just corrected her and told her it was an athletics check to climb. I only remember it because I had a player at the time who wanted to use acrobatics for everything. Occasionally I'd allow him to parkour up (which is what she was thinking) but it was situational.
*AKA just another random thing stuck in my brain shoving aside whatever it was I was supposed to buy for my wife on my way home.