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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8442528" data-attributes="member: 6779196">This bears no resemblance whatsoever to an interaction that would or could ever happen in my game.I’ll give you an example of a time I actually had a player who wasn’t expecting to be asked to give more specific detail than “I check for traps.” She said she checked for traps and I said, as I do in these situations, “I’m hearing that you want to figure out if the door is trapped or not. What does your character do to try and find that out?” She stared blankly for a moment, then said “something my character who’s trained in Investigation would think of that I can’t,” to which I responded, “I’m not looking for anything overly specific, I just need to understand what’s occurring in the fiction so I can determine what happens next, and I don’t want to assume your character is doing something you wouldn’t want them to do. For example, are you just looking at the door from a distance? Are you touching it at all? Are you using some kind of tool? I know you’re not an engineer, and neither am I, so no need to worry about the precise mechanisms or whatever, just something you imagine might help you figure out what you want to know, and I’ll do my best to interpret it in good faith.” Then she said, “oh, ok. I just want to look it over closely and thoroughly, I don’t want to touch it or anything.”For the record, there was a simple bell on a lever that would ring when the door opened. I said she saw a scuffed section at the top of the door where it looked like it might have worn from repeatedly hitting something when opened.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8442528, member: 6779196"] This bears no resemblance whatsoever to an interaction that would or could ever happen in my game. I’ll give you an example of a time I actually had a player who wasn’t expecting to be asked to give more specific detail than “I check for traps.” She said she checked for traps and I said, as I do in these situations, “I’m hearing that you want to figure out if the door is trapped or not. What does your character do to try and find that out?” She stared blankly for a moment, then said “something my character who’s trained in Investigation would think of that I can’t,” to which I responded, “I’m not looking for anything overly specific, I just need to understand what’s occurring in the fiction so I can determine what happens next, and I don’t want to assume your character is doing something you wouldn’t want them to do. For example, are you just looking at the door from a distance? Are you touching it at all? Are you using some kind of tool? I know you’re not an engineer, and neither am I, so no need to worry about the precise mechanisms or whatever, just something you imagine might help you figure out what you want to know, and I’ll do my best to interpret it in good faith.” Then she said, “oh, ok. I just want to look it over closely and thoroughly, I don’t want to touch it or anything.” For the record, there was a simple bell on a lever that would ring when the door opened. I said she saw a scuffed section at the top of the door where it looked like it might have worn from repeatedly hitting something when opened. [/QUOTE]

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