squallumz
knows petras secret: she farted.
I think the biggest problem with rolling out in the open is that depending on what type of players a DM has there might be a tendency to reverse engineer the numbers to find out what type of modifiers the opponent has and what it's attack bonus is and so forth. In a sense it's just another form of metagaming.
yeah, i totally get that. theres ups and downs to both ways, i suppose.