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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8474238" data-attributes="member: 7032025">This is not exactly what I'm saying here, our problems where more of the kind of "I want to prevent him from fleeing, so I position myself between him and the door", to which someone said "that is stupid, because you are now in the area of the fireball that I was about to cast, and you are an idiot because if you want to prevent him from fleeing, you'd better [other action]." followed by a lot of arguments especially if other people join in. Now, a player just say "I position myself there.", end of story, and no one is allowed to comment, it's just a description of what the character is doing.As for your example, the wording there might be a bit of the problem because of the use of the word "for". Let's see what happens if you state "Bob examines the door to see if there are hints that it might be trapped", or actually just "Bob examines the door for anything unusual" or even "Bob examines the door". It's enough for the DM to see if the character gets some information, using the passive or asking for a roll.First, it would often be resolved by "I pull out my weapon and shout at the kobold, and I tell him to sit down quietly or by the gods I will rip out his head". The PH insists that this is social interaction and mostly around roleplay after all. Now, in the case of some players, they might want to be use the 3rd person for various reasons, but it would still involve a description of the actions AND a voiced request to the kobold to sit down quietly, both of them, so the actions are clear.The actual intent of why the kobold needs to sit down quietly is something else entirely.</blockquote>

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