• @[email protected]
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    83 days ago

    An actual exchange in a group my wife was in, back before we were even dating:

    Player: “I wanna catch the stone from his sling! What should I roll for that?”

    DM: “Damage.”

  • David From Space
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    93 days ago

    I get the joke, but with no prior context it’s kind of a jerk move to assume the player already opened it if they asked for a perception OR an investigation. A Mimic would normally just ambush you OR attack when the player opens them. If it was opened it’s probably already attacking, and if it was closed then performing a perception shouldn’t cause initiative until rolled (if the mimic noticed you noticing it, for instance).

    I’ll…I’ll crawl back into my dingy nerd tavern now…

    • @[email protected]
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      42 days ago

      I mean, any GM who is having you roll either of those to see inside of a chest anyway is a bad GM.

    • @zipzoopaboop
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      53 days ago

      Rolling to look in a box is already weird