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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8690308" data-attributes="member: 6701124">Right, you look around and see who is there.  And whoever is there is not there by your will or decision.  Asking the DM if anyone I know is there mentally fills the roll of my looking around.If I had created someone in the backstory who is likely to be there I might ask the DM if they're there.Or if I'm a regular, I might say "I assume I know who the bartender is and go chat them up."If the entire bar staff has been replaced by an outlaw gang I'd hope the DM would tell me know when I entered that no one looked familiar and I would take that as a very strange thing.In real life when I'm on a hike and see a plant, I may know it well, be vaguely sure, have a guess, or not know.  I don't get to decide what plant it is though or if I know it.  The roll/check with the DM takes the place of my brain quickly dredging my memory.  And if I know it, I probably don't mentally monologue to myself how I know what it is.  Seeing the plant, telling myself why I know it, and then knowing what it is feels different.Yup!Sure, but it feels like we default to things that feel similar to the world usually (gravity, breathing, long distances taking time to travel, the arrow of time). But if I'm playing superheroes I probably let a lot of physics go, don't worry about breathing in toon, fast forward through travel to the good points in 13th age, and would probably jump back in time in a heist.I can totally see why it's a test of skill!I'm not sure likening it to a spell makes the case of it not being a very different thing though.Definitely agree.I appreciate everyone in this thread (including you) who has convinced me I want to try something with flashbacks at some point!!</blockquote>

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