Hriston
Dungeon Master of Middle-earth (He/him)
Because it's only "working" when it actually happens, and you can't extrapolate nonsensical fiction like a personal messenger you know by name waiting in every thorp, hamlet, and hyperspace depot in the multiverse to deliver your messages for you, unless that's the fiction the group wants to imagine.I am describing the feature working every time there is an attempt to use it, not the player constantly invoking it.
How on earth is ‘but he does not use it every single minute of the day’ a feasible defense…
Provided the player isn't sleeping through the session, I don't know what else "the player isn’t 'always' saying that" would mean. And yes, most definitely the first and in all probability the second too.If you mean ‘but the player does not do so at every opportunity’, does that imply that there are opportunities in which this is not appropriate that the player recognizes, or did they just chose not to but could have if they wanted to?
Cases where the player recognizes it's not appropriate to make an action declaration for their PC that employs the feature? Yes, if you want to characterize that as the feature not working, knock yourself out. I'm more inclined to think of it as the feature not being used, but yes, the table decides by consensus when it decides, among other things, what constitutes a permissible action declaration at this table.If it is the former then you agree that there are cases where it should not work, at which point the question becomes who decides what such cases are, but I am not sure you agree with that in the first place