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<blockquote data-quote="wayne62682" data-source="post: 3039385" data-attributes="member: 40455"><p>That's the main thing here... I (the player) won't be as familiar with the world around me as my character, thus it shouldn't be "cheating" to recieve advice on things that my character should be aware of. Informing me of something I wouldn't know is bad; nobody has ever said it's not (myself included). Reminding me that I have a spell that would be very useful right about now is not, and I fail to see how that's anything BUT good tactics. It is suddenly metagaming because I didn't think of it on my own? Last I checked, D&D was supposed to be a team game, and we should be working as a team to accomplish the goal.</p><p></p><p>I joined in on yet another metagaming debate on the WotC boards and someone brought up an interesting point: We earlier said that a rank in a Knowledge skill doesn't equal knowing something, and that you could have heard that Trolls are weak against fire in stories as a youth or whatever. Anyways, someone brought up the idea that who says the information you heard was accurate? Maybe someone spread lies about it, or like most myths maybe it was garbled being retold through the ages (anything in the quote block that doesn't say it's from me [WayneTheGame] is from the other party):</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I personally don't agree with this person's opinion and think it's just a way to screw around (really by that logic ANYTHING you ever hear could be a lie or exaggerated), but wanted to bring it up on this thread for further discussion, also since I am paraphrasing several excellent points made on this thread as well to add to the discussion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wayne62682, post: 3039385, member: 40455"] That's the main thing here... I (the player) won't be as familiar with the world around me as my character, thus it shouldn't be "cheating" to recieve advice on things that my character should be aware of. Informing me of something I wouldn't know is bad; nobody has ever said it's not (myself included). Reminding me that I have a spell that would be very useful right about now is not, and I fail to see how that's anything BUT good tactics. It is suddenly metagaming because I didn't think of it on my own? Last I checked, D&D was supposed to be a team game, and we should be working as a team to accomplish the goal. I joined in on yet another metagaming debate on the WotC boards and someone brought up an interesting point: We earlier said that a rank in a Knowledge skill doesn't equal knowing something, and that you could have heard that Trolls are weak against fire in stories as a youth or whatever. Anyways, someone brought up the idea that who says the information you heard was accurate? Maybe someone spread lies about it, or like most myths maybe it was garbled being retold through the ages (anything in the quote block that doesn't say it's from me [WayneTheGame] is from the other party): I personally don't agree with this person's opinion and think it's just a way to screw around (really by that logic ANYTHING you ever hear could be a lie or exaggerated), but wanted to bring it up on this thread for further discussion, also since I am paraphrasing several excellent points made on this thread as well to add to the discussion. [/QUOTE]
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