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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7016006" data-attributes="member: 42582">I think the default in 5e is not to ask for an Acrobatics check but a DEX check, to which Acrobatics training might then apply.As to who asks: the player or the GM? The issue of auto-success or not is (in my view) neither here nor there - if a player in my 4e game or BW game says "I want to use my [such-and-such skill/ability] to do [such-and-such]" and there's nothing at stake and hence I as GM want to just say "yes", then I say yes. In 4e this means no d20 is rolled; in BW this means no dice are rolled and no check is logged for advancement (in BW, the player who wants the check therefore has an incentive to push his/her PC into situations where something is at stake).I think it is more about [MENTION=97077]iserith[/MENTION]'s "basic conversation of the game". Are players expected to speak simply in character, describing their actions in "naturalistic" terms? I think the rulebook suggests so. Personally I feel this can give magic-users something of an advantage, as they can "naturalistically" talk about using their spells, which give them discrete and pre-established packets of effect defined in mechanical as well as "naturalistic" terms; whereas the martial types have to declare mechancially "blind", as it were, and then find out how it will be adjudicated.At many tables I think this also generates some pressure on players of martial PCs to shift the focus of play to a domain where they can wheel out their own pre-determined packets of effects, namely, combat (with its action economy, damage rules, etc). Like "I cast a Charm Person spell", "I attack with my sword" is not just a contribution to the basic conversation of the game but also a mechanically significant move that invokes its own distinct resolution procedures over which the player has at least a modicum of control, via PC build plus the details of the action declaration.</blockquote>

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