Why, yes! You would be able to roll for it in one of my games!
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My old DM: Eloberate how your engineering character would build a radio. Me: idk but the roll you asked me to was 20 and my character has knowledge sooo? DM: Well you try to but you fail due to the lack of a plan.
Yeah I don't like having him as a DM. Especially if he had knowledge about these things like first aid. No I didn't know how you suture someone exactly by my character is a fucking proffesional doctor.
It was also really fun if he then let some npc do it flawlessly immediately afterwards, really didn't feel like you could accomplish anything in his world.
Luckily I have stopped playing with him and found others.
Wild that someone would want to run a TTRPG when they clearly don't understand roleplaying.
Yeah, that sucks. I do the "elaborate" thing as well, but that's mostly because i want the player to have a chance to roleplay and give creative input. If they're having trouble coming up with something i'll just try to fill in the gaps.
That or i'm deciding if what they're asking is even possible, in which case they shouldn't roll until after i make the call. ( In general you shouldn't roll unless prompted by your GM)
Yeah exactly, that is exactly why I specified that he asked me to roll.
His bad DM'ing inspired me to dm myself and I do give a player a advantage or bonus if they specified something, IE
I look for clues around here is just plain investigation But I look for drops of blood cause the person was bleeding I give advantage.
You don't have to be sherlock holmes to investigate but thinking and elebaroting is more interesting so I do like giving a bonus.
Either way, I became a DM while always thinking what I disliked about the other person.