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<blockquote data-quote="Flexor the Mighty!" data-source="post: 7127450" data-attributes="member: 1013"><p>I hadn't played 1e in a long time and we tried a off night game and I was stunned at how reliant on making a skill check players were, myself included.&nbsp; The idea of taking the description of the room I had just given them and using that to narrate how they were going to search had become alien.&nbsp; They didn't think to say &quot;well we are going to pull the blankets off the bed and check for anything, then flip the mattress off to look underneath&quot;.&nbsp; They were just kind of at a loss once they didn't have a Search check to kind of do everything for them.&nbsp; And these are players from the early 80's.&nbsp; But now instead of visualizing the room from the description, asking for clarification if something was unclear, and then narrating their actions they were just stuck for awhile since they were so used to just saying &quot;I search the 10x10 room with beds and furniture with a skill check&quot; or two and no need to talk about how to do that.&nbsp; To me its more immersive to do it old school.&nbsp; Like me parallel parking a car now that I'm used to a camera on the back, I'm very rusty when I drive other vehicle.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Flexor the Mighty!, post: 7127450, member: 1013"] I hadn't played 1e in a long time and we tried a off night game and I was stunned at how reliant on making a skill check players were, myself included. The idea of taking the description of the room I had just given them and using that to narrate how they were going to search had become alien. They didn't think to say "well we are going to pull the blankets off the bed and check for anything, then flip the mattress off to look underneath". They were just kind of at a loss once they didn't have a Search check to kind of do everything for them. And these are players from the early 80's. But now instead of visualizing the room from the description, asking for clarification if something was unclear, and then narrating their actions they were just stuck for awhile since they were so used to just saying "I search the 10x10 room with beds and furniture with a skill check" or two and no need to talk about how to do that. To me its more immersive to do it old school. Like me parallel parking a car now that I'm used to a camera on the back, I'm very rusty when I drive other vehicle. [/QUOTE]

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