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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6518787" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!Overall, I think I agree with you as well. I think where we part ways is in experience. You're gaming experience differs from mine in that a player will almost always say something like: Crap! He's on a horse, riding up the road towards me? 60' away? Hmmmm...it's been raining a while, I'll drop to the ground and roll into the ditch so maybe he won't see me. The player will almost never say something like: Crap! He's on a horse, 60' away. I'll try and make a Stealth check to hide in the ditch. The key differences are that the players in my game tend to ask and/or confirm the situation, then make a choice. The trust me with the details of determine their characters chance of success. This usually does result in some sort of roll, unless it's waaaaay in favor (or not) of the action. Then I just decide success/failure and the outcome of it.I'm of the firm opinion that it's the DM who is in charge of everything other than the choices the player makes for his character. If I just "let" players decide when and what dice check to roll for some situation then I'm not doing my job (additionally, it makes my job harder to do). I get to/have to run the world and everything in it...sans PC's. A player who just picks up his d20, rolls, and blurts out "I got a 27 on my Survival check, so I know if I need to pack an umbrella today. So do I?" will be in for a rude awakening later on in the day I can tell you that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> In that case, the player is trying to "assume control of the world". I don't "assume control of his PC", so I expect the same courtesy from them. Now, that isn't to say that regular, standard rolls don't go on like this (re: combat, or other situations that have become standard for our group), that's fine and dandy. It's just when a player decides to make some roll, tells me the total, and then tries to tell me what that roll means...well, that just doesn't sit right with me. Maybe it's just my acute case of Curmudgeonly Grognarditis, but, to quote a wise, old, raspy voiced, bug-eyed guy...Yup...that's a paddlin. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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