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<blockquote data-quote="Swarmkeeper" data-source="post: 7534771" data-attributes="member: 6921763"><p>No one is asking for correct wording or phrasing in order to succeed at a task as far as I'm aware. Well, perhaps there is a time for that (e.g. <em>Speak "friend" and enter</em>), but in general that would be an exhausting way to play and pretty un-fun in my book, too. Many of us find the game is best played when a player simply describes what their character is doing and what the character is hoping to accomplish by doing it, using whatever wording the player wants. A DM can ask them to clarify, too, but that doesn't mean the DM is looking to play word games. The player just invoking a "skill" here is, IMO, the most uninteresting way to do it and not really role-playing. That becomes a game of punching buttons on a character sheet which, to me, is one step away from playing a video game which is not what I signed up to do when I decided to run or play in a D&D session.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Swarmkeeper, post: 7534771, member: 6921763"] No one is asking for correct wording or phrasing in order to succeed at a task as far as I'm aware. Well, perhaps there is a time for that (e.g. [I]Speak "friend" and enter[/I]), but in general that would be an exhausting way to play and pretty un-fun in my book, too. Many of us find the game is best played when a player simply describes what their character is doing and what the character is hoping to accomplish by doing it, using whatever wording the player wants. A DM can ask them to clarify, too, but that doesn't mean the DM is looking to play word games. The player just invoking a "skill" here is, IMO, the most uninteresting way to do it and not really role-playing. That becomes a game of punching buttons on a character sheet which, to me, is one step away from playing a video game which is not what I signed up to do when I decided to run or play in a D&D session. [/QUOTE]
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