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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7534969" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>To be fair to folks who prefer to call for a roll in these situations, I don’t believe this comes from a place of distrust or disrespect. I used to be on that side of the fence, and it wasn’t that I didn’t believe my players would play their characters faithfully if I didn’t enforce dice rolls on every action. Rather, I think it’s a matter of carrying over ways of playing from previous editions of the games. There are very good reasons that 3e and 4e have players declare what rolls they want to make, that have nothing to do with trust or respect and everything to do with the way the sustems are built. Having tried both styles, I do prefer 5e’s approach, which is why I don’t go back to 4e despite preferring a LOT of its systems over 5e’s. Well, that and the fact that it’s harder to find players for 4e. But the fact of the matter is that I could find 4e players if I really wanted to, but despite all of what I perceive to be 5e’s flaws, this different fundamental approach it takes to task resolution is ultimately so preferable to me that it’s worth dealing with the system’s warts.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7534969, member: 6779196"] To be fair to folks who prefer to call for a roll in these situations, I don’t believe this comes from a place of distrust or disrespect. I used to be on that side of the fence, and it wasn’t that I didn’t believe my players would play their characters faithfully if I didn’t enforce dice rolls on every action. Rather, I think it’s a matter of carrying over ways of playing from previous editions of the games. There are very good reasons that 3e and 4e have players declare what rolls they want to make, that have nothing to do with trust or respect and everything to do with the way the sustems are built. Having tried both styles, I do prefer 5e’s approach, which is why I don’t go back to 4e despite preferring a LOT of its systems over 5e’s. Well, that and the fact that it’s harder to find players for 4e. But the fact of the matter is that I could find 4e players if I really wanted to, but despite all of what I perceive to be 5e’s flaws, this different fundamental approach it takes to task resolution is ultimately so preferable to me that it’s worth dealing with the system’s warts. [/QUOTE]

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