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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7533821" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>To your bold, no, absolutely not. Your GM was indeed doing it wrong, but that doesn't mean that any asked for use of a skill requires a roll. Again, if you ask the king to give you his kingdom, do you get to roll for that and win? Nope, some things don't happen. This is why I follow [MENTION=97077]iserith[/MENTION]'s method of insisting on an approach and goal. Using that I determine if the outcome is automatically successful, impossible, or uncertain. If uncertain, I use the goal and approach to set DCs, using 10-15 as the baseline that requires good reason to exceed. But, I, as DM, only have authority over the entire game that's not the what the PCs think and want. So, when anything impinges on that, it's the player of that PC that gets to determine if a thing is successful, impossible, or uncertain, not me.</p><p></p><p>That said, your DM was doing it wrong. Your ability to act should not, in any way, impact how effective your character is. I have players that act almost all the time, and some that mostly use third person declarations. They all get the same chances at the table.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 7533821, member: 16814"] To your bold, no, absolutely not. Your GM was indeed doing it wrong, but that doesn't mean that any asked for use of a skill requires a roll. Again, if you ask the king to give you his kingdom, do you get to roll for that and win? Nope, some things don't happen. This is why I follow [MENTION=97077]iserith[/MENTION]'s method of insisting on an approach and goal. Using that I determine if the outcome is automatically successful, impossible, or uncertain. If uncertain, I use the goal and approach to set DCs, using 10-15 as the baseline that requires good reason to exceed. But, I, as DM, only have authority over the entire game that's not the what the PCs think and want. So, when anything impinges on that, it's the player of that PC that gets to determine if a thing is successful, impossible, or uncertain, not me. That said, your DM was doing it wrong. Your ability to act should not, in any way, impact how effective your character is. I have players that act almost all the time, and some that mostly use third person declarations. They all get the same chances at the table. [/QUOTE]
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