09-07-2012, 05:31 PM | #31 |
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Re: Help implementing spotting feints
That's the reason why I make all of these rolls in secret. My players only want the knowledge that their characters would have. When I'm a player, I don't want knowledge my character doesn't have. I'm not able to segregate that different knowledge when I have to do decision making later on.
The extreme example would be some kind of whodunit where halfway through the campaign the GM accidentally reveals who the who is. It wouldn't be as enjoyable going through the rest of the campaign already knowing it was the maid. Not only that, but I couldn't help but be biased in my character's actions. I would end up second guessing myself. Am I Googling the maid's father because I know it was the maid, or is that something my character would really be doing under these circumstances? I don't want those kinds of conflicts, even when it's something that's going to happen over the course of one turn in combat. Combat's just as important. This is life and death! Characters are living and dying based on this.
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09-07-2012, 05:36 PM | #32 | |
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09-07-2012, 05:37 PM | #33 | |
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09-07-2012, 05:39 PM | #34 |
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09-07-2012, 05:41 PM | #35 |
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I can watch it again, but I can't get myself all worked up over who shot J.R. the second time through.
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09-07-2012, 06:33 PM | #36 | |
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09-07-2012, 09:49 PM | #37 |
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Re: Help implementing spotting feints
How did "hidden rolls" even come up? We were talking about whether they get to make their own Per rolls or the GM makes those rolls for them; not about whether they get to see what the GM rolled for the NPCs, which is what "hidden roll" means to me.
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