• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    The problem with this argument is that first off, the GM can’t know your character sheet front-to-back because they’re not playing your character, so they probably don’t know if even a 1 will pass the DC they’ve set.

    The GM should know exceptional stats of their player. Yes, I might not know some rarely relevant stat of my players, I but surely know how well the rogue stealths, how well the elf bowman arches, how well the mage spells and how hard the barbarian hits.

    And even if I don’t, the players can tell me the stat before a potential check.

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      7 hours ago

      I just think whether or not each and every player here has an outrageously high stat and what those stats are is a bit of an unnecessary hassle to add to the already long list of things the GM needs to keep track of.

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        7 hours ago

        I find that not very hard to keep track, honestly. They usually don’t have a lot of them.

        And in any case, the player can just say when they have one.