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<blockquote data-quote="Delta" data-source="post: 4509538" data-attributes="member: 40269">Well, I guess I can respect your different opinion about D&amp;D, but I must say that you're looking for a game very unlike poker, then. Part of poker is the specific goal of someone hiding their &quot;monster hand&quot; and not revealing it until the moment that they knock you out of the game. Someone having a &quot;tell&quot; and clueing you into that would be seen as a major failing, when they get such a &quot;monster hand&quot;.&nbsp;Furthermore I might argue that the appearance of SOD abilities moves the intelligence operation in D&amp;D from the tactical encounter to the strategic level. At that point you need to scout, survey, scry, whatever, to know what abilities the enemy has and prepare in advance of the battle. Going into every encounter blindly and hoping to respond on the fly could be seen as low-level (first order) player skill.&nbsp;I can respect it if you don't like that kind of alternate strategic gaming, though. That's fair. But stuff like that is why I like Classic D&amp;D, and see it a lot like poker.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Delta, post: 4509538, member: 40269"] Well, I guess I can respect your different opinion about D&D, but I must say that you're looking for a game very unlike poker, then. Part of poker is the specific goal of someone hiding their "monster hand" and not revealing it until the moment that they knock you out of the game. Someone having a "tell" and clueing you into that would be seen as a major failing, when they get such a "monster hand". Furthermore I might argue that the appearance of SOD abilities moves the intelligence operation in D&D from the tactical encounter to the strategic level. At that point you need to scout, survey, scry, whatever, to know what abilities the enemy has and prepare in advance of the battle. Going into every encounter blindly and hoping to respond on the fly could be seen as low-level (first order) player skill. I can respect it if you don't like that kind of alternate strategic gaming, though. That's fair. But stuff like that is why I like Classic D&D, and see it a lot like poker. [/QUOTE]

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