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Roll perception. 10? You are sure there's no traps.
I'm a simple man. I see Rogue One, I upvote.
I wish they filmed Andor before Rogue One.
A while ago I watched Andor, Rogue One and Episode 4 chronologically. It felt like a step backwards with every switch.
Episode 4 is quite good, but it's really old and kinda primitive by modern standards.
Rogue One is the best star wars movie so far, and it's just really well done.
Andor is just pure amazing! They took the comparatively long time they had and really developed the characters, the world and the story.
Watching these three in that order is really good. But watching them in chronological order really lessens the experience.
I wonder how great Rogue One would have been if it had all the worldbuilding and character development of Andor behind it.
People have said Andor made Rogue One better. I'll be honest, I enjoyed it before, but after I finished Andor S2 I tried rewatching it and couldn't finish it. It honestly killed it for me. It's not the worst movie ever or anything, but going from the incredible writing of Andor to Rogue One is painful.
rogue one memes are almost a decade old. thats fucking weird to think about
You can still catch people with the old "You didn't find any traps".
There's a terrifying amount of people who don't pay attention to the You part.
Takes notes
On the one hand, it's fun to fuck with players. "So you enter the room? Cross the threshold of your own free will? Ok who's wearing metal?" when none of that matters, but you write it down anyway.
On the other, sometimes I've had to be like "ok guys seriously there's no traps here. Put away the ten foot pole and chickens let's just move along"
I like to randomly ask if they wanna move around stealthily, even when there is no one to find them
And they opposite, when they ask to roll perception or investigation when it doesn't matter at all and the improv'ed answer turns into a major plot point
That's the beauty of cooperative storytelling.
And the ability to rapidly pivot and discard all the preparation you did is THE most important skill for a good DM.
ask to roll perfection
I didn't know this was an option. I'd like a nat 20, please.
when they ask to roll
Well there is your problem. Players shouldn't be asking for rolls, DMs tell players what rolls are needed so they can describe the scene playing out based on them.
traps
Dude, trap is not the preferred nomenclature.
Shapeshifters!
rocks fall and snooggums dies
-DM scatters traps randomly; they could be anywhere.
-Players get tired of getting hit by them, so they search every room for traps.
-DM gets angry that players are wasting time searching every room for traps.
honestly it could just be like "i examine this room", meaning that, if anything was there, you'd see other important or at least interesting stuff, not just traps or not traps. GM could even do perception checks behind the screen (like it's done in PF2e) and describe something the character found interesting in the room, no matter the roll. you could examine the room, get described many beautiful paintings and fall on a very obvious trap because you rolled a 1