I have never played R&D D&D (or, I did once, but had a bad experience), so bear with me.
Is it ever allowed to simply do the thing, instead of rolling dice? For example in this case, to place 5+5 tokens upside down, and pick two of them? Or fold pieces of paper, etc?
Edit: I meant D&D of course. Don’t know where the R came from.
I was joining a group of people who I didn’t know all that well. I was keen to try the D&D experience, and somewhat follow the implied path by the DM. The others were more into the “sandbox” experience. So we ended up doing little more than burn down a tavern after 4 hours of playing. Probably helps if the DM goes through and figures out people’s expectations. We were just kids tho. This was 20 years ago.