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(This is not a response to the post above mine! I was just typing this up at the same time. High-five to all the Dragonlance fans in...

I might have them roll. A high roll will do nothing, because nothing is there (edit: or maybe, they realize sooner nothing is there)...

What about when the game steps in to cover for player lack of skill? (Maybe the answer to the OP is, "what the designers say is...

My thing with humans is that I find playing them boring (as opposed to saying that they are boring). I'm already a human in my real...

Big topic, but first thing I'll offer is that player skill in social interactions doesn't have to require acting skills or being...

It gets a bad rap, but there is a lot of cool stuff in there.

So, I picked up the SCAG from my Friendly Local Library, and I loved it so much that I had to grab myself a copy from my Friendly Local...

I'm glad you highlighted that, because there are multiple meanings of "players skill" and sometimes people debating it are using...

Hope this thread doesn’t devolve into an argument about what the true meaning of being lost is… Anyway, I’ve always hated mapping both...

Because people want them to? This isn't an intricate delve into the human psyche. People want to play a pretty elf or a stubborn dwarf...

My last home game had the party first hunting a couple vampires, which took them through the backstreets, the sewers, and then finally...

Here is how I do it for finding secret doors and hidden objects. Traps would work similarly with some variation for being a trap...

Character skill first and allow them to cover awide swarth of possible tasks. For instance I have no real world skill in picking locks...

Anvar was so good as Alex, it was perfect casting . . . well, other than the landmine that he was a terrible person. I'm angry at him...

I don't know what you mean by "the power level is so low"? How are you measuring power level? The 30th level Invoker/Wizard in my game...