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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2033790" data-attributes="member: 2011">I disagree.It's the DMs job to adjudicate the game.If the players are busy or being careless, it is perfectly reasonable for the DM to adjudicate that they do not see the Ninja in the corner because the Ninja in the corner was hiding carefully and that is just not the PCs focus at the moment. An alternative adjudication is that because they are currently busy (or careless), they get a Take 10 Spot (which will often not be high enough).Situations can change the "default DC" of an event to the point that they do not even get a roll (at least in my game). For example, a Rogue running down the stairs at full speed just doesn't get the Search (or Spot) roll for the trap on the stairs. It is not that he gets a penalty to the roll, he just does not get the roll because he is doing something that is antithetical to paying attention and noticing a trap.I do not think it a good practice to reward players with free info, just because a 20 showed up on a die roll behind the DM screen. If you roll every time, that will happen.</blockquote>