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<blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 8474917" data-attributes="member: 97077">You may have uncertainty in how you describe the environment as it pertains to the orc's intimidation, but that's not the same as uncertainty as it relates to calling for an ability check to resolve a task with a success and failure condition and a DC. In my games, I just say what the orc does and ask the player &quot;What do you do?&quot; I don't need a roll to determine flavor or color. I call for ability checks when it's time to resolve a task.The rules don't support this because an ability check must have uncertainty as to the result of a task, a success and failure condition, and a DC. It fails the first test of whether there is an ability check because there is no uncertainty when it comes to how the player has the character respond. The player decides. It's a roll to determine flavor or color. You may as well flip a coin or roll on a d100 chart. It's not an ability check in the way the rules state. I'd ask you to go find rules support for your approach, but that would be cruel because there is none.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="iserith, post: 8474917, member: 97077"] You may have uncertainty in how you describe the environment as it pertains to the orc's intimidation, but that's not the same as uncertainty as it relates to calling for an ability check to resolve a task with a success and failure condition and a DC. In my games, I just say what the orc does and ask the player "What do [I]you [/I]do?" I don't need a roll to determine flavor or color. I call for ability checks when it's time to resolve a task. The rules don't support this because an ability check must have uncertainty as to the result of a task, a success and failure condition, and a DC. It fails the first test of whether there is an ability check because there is no uncertainty when it comes to how the player has the character respond. The player decides. It's a roll to determine flavor or color. You may as well flip a coin or roll on a d100 chart. It's not an ability check in the way the rules state. I'd ask you to go find rules support for your approach, but that would be cruel because there is none. [/QUOTE]

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