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<blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 7923610" data-attributes="member: 97077">...while maintaining alertness for hidden dangers. That's the task that is being adjudicated here. You're not mistaken about your own example. You appear to be mistaken about what the PC is doing which is a prerequisite for an ability check.The rules would disagree with you, as would I. And I think it might be worth thinking through why you would want to do it in the first place. Barring the noted exceptions, what is lost by leaving it to the players to describe what their own characters think and feel? What is gained by having the DM step into the players' role to do this?No, I'm telling you what you wrote looks like to me. I'm not telling you what you are thinking. I can't possibly know that. You obviously want to tell the players how their characters think and feel because you've said as much. I did not say why you do it. I'm not even sure you know why you do it.I agree there's no one right way to play the game. But it doesn't hurt to question one's own methods and practices.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="iserith, post: 7923610, member: 97077"] ...while maintaining alertness for hidden dangers. That's the task that is being adjudicated here. You're not mistaken about your own example. You appear to be mistaken about what the PC is doing which is a prerequisite for an ability check. The rules would disagree with you, as would I. And I think it might be worth thinking through [I]why[/I] you would want to do it in the first place. Barring the noted exceptions, what is lost by leaving it to the players to describe what their own characters think and feel? What is gained by having the DM step into the players' role to do this? No, I'm telling you what you wrote looks like to me. I'm not telling you what you are thinking. I can't possibly know that. You obviously [I]want [/I]to tell the players how their characters think and feel because you've said as much. I did not say [I]why [/I]you do it. I'm not even sure you know why you do it. I agree there's no one right way to play the game. But it doesn't hurt to question one's own methods and practices. [/QUOTE]

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