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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7504529" data-attributes="member: 22779">Meh, so, if the player states, "I search the rubble to see if there is anything interesting there." you automatically assume that he's taking the most disadvantageous approach (using his bare hands)?  I mean, do I seriously need to state, "Ok, I'm using a shovel to search the rubble."?  I need to pixel bitch my way through every single action so that I don't miss the DM gotcha moments?  "I search the rubble, I got a 20 (or whatever) on my Investigate check, what do I find?", to me, is a perfectly acceptable thing for a player to do and, in fact, I would get annoyed with a player who didn't do this and waited after every statement for me, as the DM, to poke and prod for more information.  I look at "I search the rubble" as a perfectly fine way of playing and I would not then spring the, "AHA GOTCHA!  You didn't say that you were using your shovel to search!  You just stuck your hand in a pile of rot grubs!"I simply assume that the PC's are competent and won't do anything blindingly stupid and my players are confident in that and trust that I won't screw them over.  "Oh, you didn't say you were buying cold weather gear before heading into the blizzard, I guess you all died of hypothermia."  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm    :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" />  No thanks.Just to go back a bit about pacing.  In my last Primeval Thule session, which was 3 hours, we did the following:5 combats - exploring an abandoned Atlantean outpost that had been taken over by cyclopses (cyclopsi?).  1 social encounter - interrogating a prisoner to learn information.2 exploration - exploring the abandoned outpost as well as investigating an entrance to a dungeon that was a 200 foot deep chasm that needed to be climbed down in the dark while avoiding the giant spiders that had strung webs across the chasm.And that was in less than 3 hours because we actually ended the session early.  A bit combat heavy, but, then again, I likes me the hack, so, not too bad.  Fun session actually.  This was for a 9th level party as well.  So, when I talk about higher pacing, I'm not kidding.</blockquote>

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