Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
I'm sure they'd rather that the GM simply didn't tell them information their PC wouldn't necessarily know.This doesn't really address my point.
When a GM introduces a scenario and tells you what's going on in it, and you as a player decide "my character doesn't understand this part of the situation" you have chosen to create the conditions for metagaming. If metagaming is a concern for you, then you can just accept that your character understands the situation as it was explained.
You're opting into the situation where what you're calling metagaming occurs.
No!