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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 5571885" data-attributes="member: 3400">Your hypothesis is based on some pretty wild assumptions. The classic &quot;wisdom check&quot; has often been used, in my experience, to get the player's perceptions more in line with what you could reasonably his character's to be. Often, this is because the GM thinks that the player is making a decision that a PC, knowing what a PC would know, probably wouldn't make, probably out of ignorance or a difference in the perception of the situation between the GM and the player. For example: Player has his PC try to jump a 50 foot gorge. If there's no reason to expect that to work in the rules or in the PC's reality, why would the player make that decision? Probably because he's not really understanding the full situation. Perhaps the GM hasn't made it clear, perhaps the player just wasn't paying enough attention. The wisdom roll allows the GM to prompt the player about something from the PC's point of view. It's basically a &quot;Player, get a clue&quot; moment.How this is somehow detestable boggles my mind.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 5571885, member: 3400"] Your hypothesis is based on some pretty wild assumptions. The classic "wisdom check" has often been used, in my experience, to get the player's perceptions more in line with what you could reasonably his character's to be. Often, this is because the GM thinks that the player is making a decision that a PC, knowing what a PC would know, probably wouldn't make, probably out of ignorance or a difference in the perception of the situation between the GM and the player. For example: Player has his PC try to jump a 50 foot gorge. If there's no reason to expect that to work in the rules or in the PC's reality, why would the player make that decision? Probably because he's not really understanding the full situation. Perhaps the GM hasn't made it clear, perhaps the player just wasn't paying enough attention. The wisdom roll allows the GM to prompt the player about something from the PC's point of view. It's basically a "Player, get a clue" moment. How this is somehow detestable boggles my mind. [/QUOTE]

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