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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TKDB" data-source="post: 5868856" data-attributes="member: 6690697">I'm mainly a player, and I'd say my preference depends on the context.For combat, though I've never actually paid much attention to it while playing, intellectually I'd say I prefer rolls in the open. I know I tend to get kind of worked up during high-tension, challenging fights, and I feel that, even though I totally trust my GMs not to fudge rolls on me, seeing the rolls out in the open would help me keep my suspicions under control when the adrenaline starts to get the better of my rational side.However, for exploration and social circumstances, I generally prefer for the GM to make the rolls for the players in secret. Particularly for stuff that determines what a character is able to perceive or deduce, it really helps with the immersion for the actual outcome of the roll to be secret. Knowing what you got on such a roll colors your attitude toward the information you get from it, and even though a good roleplayer can more or less keep that meta knowledge out of how they play the character, it's still a lot easier to know only that your efforts to figure something out yielded X information, without knowing how good or poor your efforts actually were.</blockquote>