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<blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 8373820" data-attributes="member: 97077">There are most certainly trade-offs in context and in time spent as I have shown. Those are meaningful in any game with a strong exploration element and a sense of urgency. It just might not be evident to you perhaps because you don't play in these kinds of games or run them. You post like someone who doesn't even like exploration challenges. And that's just fine, but don't sit there and tell us something doesn't exist or matter when it clear can and does in games that employ the rules we're given.The DM decides all of this, including whether and when you even make an attack roll or damage roll. The DM decides what's in the environment and the result of every single action the characters undertake. That you can safely bet an attack roll follows your declaration of an attack at your table is just because your DM is being consistent with adjudication - which is good. But in D&amp;D 5e, make no mistake, the DM is empowered to decide all of these things. The rules serve the DM, not the other way around and the play loop gives the players only the power to say what they want to do and nothing else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="iserith, post: 8373820, member: 97077"] There are most certainly trade-offs in context and in time spent as I have shown. Those are meaningful in any game with a strong exploration element and a sense of urgency. It just might not be evident to you perhaps because you don't play in these kinds of games or run them. You post like someone who doesn't even like exploration challenges. And that's just fine, but don't sit there and tell us something doesn't exist or matter when it clear can and does in games that employ the rules we're given. The DM decides all of this, including whether and when you even make an attack roll or damage roll. The DM decides what's in the environment and the result of every single action the characters undertake. That you can safely bet an attack roll follows your declaration of an attack at your table is just because your DM is being consistent with adjudication - which is good. But in D&D 5e, make no mistake, the DM is empowered to decide all of these things. The rules serve the DM, not the other way around and the play loop gives the players only the power to say what they want to do and nothing else. [/QUOTE]

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