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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MechaPilot" data-source="post: 6939437" data-attributes="member: 82779">When you say in a nutshell you want to hear preparation, purpose, and skills, and you also say you want the player to tell you exactly what they're looking for when harvesting poison, those sentences are at odds with each other.  Asking a player to describe exactly what they're looking for in harvesting a poison is equivalent to asking for a method, not for preparation, a purpose, or a skill, and it sounds a little like you're going the extra mile to make poison a less-viable option when just saying no to it would be much easier.I mean, don't get me wrong, I agree with the premise that they shouldn't just say "I skin it, and my roll is _____."  They should at least describe their goal and any relevant skills or proficiencies that could influence the DM's determination of possible DCs or checks involved.  For example, "I'm going to skin the creature.  I'd like to be able to turn its skin into leather suitable for making clothes, armor, etc.  I'm trained in Survival."  That gives me a reasonable idea of where to set the DC, if I think a roll is warranted (if a character is trained in Survival and they want to skin a very common creature like a deer, I won't even consider making them roll for it), and a reasonable idea of how much usable leather the character is going to get from the creature.</blockquote>