D&D General "Player Skill" versus DM Ingenuity as a playstyle.

[MichaelSomething]

If you really want to throw your players for a loop, play a different game.

 

[payn]

If you really want to throw your players for a loop, play a different game.

 

[Lanefan]

If you really want to throw your players for a loop, play a different game.

Playing a different game than the players would confuse things, indeed...

 

[EzekielRaiden]

The way to reduce that price is to not give the player information about things your character doesn't (yet) know.

You cannot reduce the price to zero--and every reduction carries with it costs in other places instead. Hence, it is not true that all possible reductions are always valuable. Some things come at too high a price.