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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8381707" data-attributes="member: 7032025">Great advice and I like the list, like you I'm not sticking to a specific method but I use whatever method seems the most appropriate at any given time. I would just like to add two, which we use a lot as well<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">you can ask the player to roll specifically but not let him see the result of the roll</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">you can ask the player to roll generically a d20 without saying what it is for, but not let him see the result of the roll</li> </ul>You can do this in most VTTs, or you can have him roll in an opaque glass so that only the DM can see the result. It's good to have the player involved, but it really prevents metagaming. We use this a lot in particular for stealth checks, but in this case it can be interesting as well so that the players do not metagame whether there was something to see or not.</blockquote>