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Message: <blockquote data-quote="werecorpse" data-source="post: 6852739" data-attributes="member: 55491">My group is comprised of people who are in their 40's (a few turn 50 this year) and have played for 30-35+ years. So I guess we are gen X. But our play method is describe what your character is doing, often in general terms (ie I search the chest for traps) and if it's not an auto success or fail you roll a dice to see how well you did.I agree that rolling before saying what you do is annoying but we abandoned the detailed description of searches decades ago. It was pure player knowledge rather than character knowledge. It got to the stage of everyone knowing what to look for and simply saying "standard door (or room or chest or corridor) procedure". That's player problem solving - it's a type of roleplaying, where you play the role of what you would do in that circumstance, but not where you play the role of what Krago of the mountains a dwarf and an ex soldier would do.Now once a room is described with a chest If a player wants to look around for traps they just say they are. The GM assumes that means a whole array of checking for wires, tiny holes, loose stones, contact poison etc in one roll.Same as in combat if you just say you attack you get to roll to hit. The GM assumes all the appropriate manoeuvres your attack bonus dictates.</blockquote>