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Indeed, I usually allow for rolls only when there's something at stake, otherwise the players just succeed whatever they are trying to do (or I let them know that what they're trying is impossible). But then there's the Journeys part of the game, that goes against the "don't roll too often" advice. ...

Ah, I see. Do you let your players push failed skill rolls often?

What's your criteria for allowing a push?

Unnecessarily pushing rolls in less than threatening or cheap-to-recover-from situations, with the purpose of filling a character's Willpower Points meter.

Does that happen in your game? Is that a problem to you as a GM? How do you deal with that?

@hperantunes: Doesn't the game lose part of its flavor this way? Why not just switch to: you reach your destination after X days if all rolls are considered successful (or just pepper the travel with some encounters)? I like to describe the setting and add little touches to each new hex the group v...

I've always let the players roll and push (when pushable) their Journey activities, but as the group got more experienced and skilled these rolls have become almost a waste of session time. Also, since Journey rolls are a major source of WP farming in my game, I've decided to stop rolling these acti...

I've got a total party kill after in the 10th session, and no deaths in the 27 sessions afterwards (so far).

How do you accomplish that? Doesn't rolling in the open give the stats away, for NPCs at least?

Oh, for NPCs it's more in the sense of not letting the players know what are their stats before starting a combat with them, but for monsters I manage to be mostly opaque.

Since my players almost never spend their experience points on Skills (a problem discussed elsewhere), they fail these Journey rolls pretty often.

Also, recovering attribute damage is pretty cheap as in my campaign I don't throw threats at the party at every single moment.

I find there's an unresolved conflict between the "don't roll too often" recommendation in p.44 and the mechanics for Journeys, which are a mini-game almost entirely based on rolling dice.

That's mainly how my PCs accumulate WP.