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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 7794860" data-attributes="member: 6801286">Sometimes I also ask: "What does that look like?". I not only ask it to make a ruling on the outcome, but I also ask it to bring the scene to life for the other players. To me it is all about immersion, and about caring about the situation.Hang on there. When I design a trap for an adventure, that means I know where it is and how it works. If you say you roll a rock across the floor, and the trap is not floor activated, then nothing happens. I'm not sure if that qualifies as a failure, because it also gives you information. Nothing stops you from following up with just a normal search action, or any other combination of actions.If however the trap IS floor activated, then yeah, a rock will probably activate it. This is why I'll ask if the players take cover and WHERE they take cover. This does not mean stats don't matter. But you can take other actions apart from just searching for traps. It may be something the player wants to fall back on if they roll badly on their check.I care about giving my players lots of options and rewarding their cleverness. I like it when my game world operates by a certain logic.I don't see why allowing the players to have other options to success or failure would take away from that. Frankly, I think it immerses the player more in what is going on in the game.For example:I had a trap in my campaign where the players had to make their way across pillars above a pit of lava, while occasionally flames would shoot out from some of the pillars. The trap was not hidden, they could clearly see the flames and the holes they were shooting out from. So the players asked if they could simply plug the holes... and I figured, why not? Makes sense to me. Whether that requires another check is a matter of opinion, but above all else I want my world to obey a certain logic. The players should be free to think outside the box when trying to overcome the obstacles I throw at them.</blockquote>

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