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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bill Zebub" data-source="post: 9546098" data-attributes="member: 7031982">I disagree here.  Or, at least, I think action declarations in game with risk should be treated differently from those with no risk.If there's no risk to failure, I truly believe there's no point to gating success behind a random number generator.  If I trust a DM to fairly adjudicate the odds of success, and the cost of failure, when there is risk, then surely I have to problem with that same DM just deciding whether or not it's better for the story if I succeed or fail.But if there is risk, then I want to know (at least roughly) what the odds are, and (at least generally) what will happen if I fail.  And then I want to get to make the decision myself.  I want that tension when I roll the dice.  The higher the stakes, the more exciting the anticipation, and the greater the emotion when I see the result.</blockquote>