How Visible To players Should The Rules Be?

[TwoSix]

If you agree with the poster's point of view. If not, the debate rages on.

Any particular reason you felt the need to be cute here? Have I made similar teasing comments about your preferences?

 

[TwoSix]

How is this different from the belief that our own reality is nothing more than a simulation?

It's cute you think it's just a belief.

 

[Corinnguard]

It's cute you think it's just a belief.

Well it's cute compared to this: The Backrooms - Wikipedia Welcome to a more modern rendition of the Infinite Abyss.

 

[Thomas Shey]

To be fair, players have a strong incentive in combat not to firewall their knowledge. Why make that harder for them than is necessary?

Because I expect people to be playing for the health of the game as a whole, not just their personal self-interest?

 

[Cadence]

RE: Sizing up in fiction.

 

[Reynard]

It is funny where our personal lines are. i am not particularly interested in immersion, and I like the G part of RPGs as much or more than the the RP part, but this idea where I, as GM, give the PCs a full statblock to the PCs so they can make informed tactical decisions gets a big fat "No Way" from me. I can't even really say why, other than the fact that it makes no sense in the fiction and it makes the fight less fun by eliminating the discovery phase of the battle.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

It is funny where our personal lines are. i am not particularly interested in immersion, and I like the G part of RPGs as much or more than the the RP part, but this idea where I, as GM, give the PCs a full statblock to the PCs so they can make informed tactical decisions gets a big fat "No Way" from me. I can't even really say why, other than the fact that it makes no sense in the fiction and it makes the fight less fun by eliminating the discovery phase of the battle.

I don't think anyone has suggested giving them the full statblock. At least I haven't. I said I tell the AC once they actually attack the NPC, which presumably is the situation where they would see the enemy to defend themselves, and thus could asses how good they're at it. And the main reason is that it is just easier and faster this way.

 

[Reynard]

I don't think anyone has suggested giving them the full statblock. At least I haven't. I said I tell the AC once they actually attack the NPC, which presumably is the situation where they would see the enemy to defend themselves, and thus could asses how good they're at it. And the main reason is that it is just easier and faster this way.

I forget who, but someone upthread literally wanted the whole statblock in order to have immersion and agency.

 

[Micah Sweet]

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I don't get it. But that's ok.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Because I expect people to be playing for the health of the game as a whole, not just their personal self-interest?

Some will, but others won't, and you'll always have both types.