- Lockpicking: “Okay, solve this puzzle cube”
- Athletics: “Okay, lift this dumbbell”
- Attack: “Knife fight me irl, you coward!”

30s/white/tired/coyote/&
Words are my favorite stim toy
I ask them "can you tell me exactly how you critically fail/critically succeed?" And my players paint a beautiful picture telling me just how pathetic and awkward/cool and swave their play pretend guy is.
Not even the people on actual plays roleplay things out as much as people on actual plays. A show is a very different setting than the basement with snacks, side conversations, and that one combat monkey that is a frozen sentinel until we roll initiative that new players will actually experience