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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8376205" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>You want to complain about me speeding things along when there are no traps or other gotcha's feel free. I haven't had a non-obviously telegraphed trap in years.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There is smelling the roses, and then there is six athletics rolls to break down a door that we all know we are going to get through. </p><p></p><p>I'm not trying to rush through everything, but I'd much rather say "I search the room" instead of "I search the drawers. I search the wardrobe. I search the pockets of the clothes in the wardrobe. I check for a false back. I search the bed. I search under the bed. I lift the mattress and search under there. I search the foot locker. I check the foot locker for a false bottom. I check the book shelf. I check the red book. I check the green book. I check the blue book. I check the brown book. I check the purple book." ect ect ect.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Look man, I get player agency. But sometimes I don't feel like playing 20 questions.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Then I'll get a 15 ft pole. Or I'll just stand around and do nothing until the other people get blown up enough. </p><p></p><p>Look, I can play the way where I describe every single thing I do to prevent any sort of risk to my character. And you can probably find something I missed and I get hurt by a trap I didn't see coming. But all of that is a lot of effort for a whole lot of boring tedium. I just don't see the point.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't see any point in discussing what it should be, I'm simply talking about what it is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8376205, member: 6801228"] You want to complain about me speeding things along when there are no traps or other gotcha's feel free. I haven't had a non-obviously telegraphed trap in years. There is smelling the roses, and then there is six athletics rolls to break down a door that we all know we are going to get through. I'm not trying to rush through everything, but I'd much rather say "I search the room" instead of "I search the drawers. I search the wardrobe. I search the pockets of the clothes in the wardrobe. I check for a false back. I search the bed. I search under the bed. I lift the mattress and search under there. I search the foot locker. I check the foot locker for a false bottom. I check the book shelf. I check the red book. I check the green book. I check the blue book. I check the brown book. I check the purple book." ect ect ect. Look man, I get player agency. But sometimes I don't feel like playing 20 questions. Then I'll get a 15 ft pole. Or I'll just stand around and do nothing until the other people get blown up enough. Look, I can play the way where I describe every single thing I do to prevent any sort of risk to my character. And you can probably find something I missed and I get hurt by a trap I didn't see coming. But all of that is a lot of effort for a whole lot of boring tedium. I just don't see the point. I don't see any point in discussing what it should be, I'm simply talking about what it is. [/QUOTE]
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