Can't stand the dice deciding everything and the MC holding back.

For some reason every encounter or lack of encounter is decided by dice we can't see. Instead of the characters being observant or not, we have them rolling a 1 on a perception check. The main character, who knows the world having designed it never clues in his supposed friends when he sees a path that would benefit the group. I got 1/2 way through the book and stopped. I want conflict resolved by prior training, hard work and willpower, not the magical dice.

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