Right, it wasn't very clear. I'll try to explain myself.
Once my players found a little shrine dedicated to a demon lord inside a dungeon they were exploring. In that shrine there was, among many other things, a pecurliar statue made of black stone and gold, which I took some time to describe...
I think meta-gaming is a way of saying "cheating", but with a narrower meaning.
Cheating is a broader term: when you play, you can cheat in obvious ways like fudging your rolls. Meta-gaming is instead when you use your knowledge of the game or your knowledge of the people you are playing with...
I think you are right.
My players know that the world their PCs live in is dangerous, that death is an option and that if they decide to enter a clearly dangerous place they should reasonably expect they could die.
That said, I like when my players come up with a clever or a funny idea: that's...
Funny: it's the second time in a few day that I read a negative opinion on the Tomb of Horrors, and I quite don't understand.
I incorporated the 3.5 version of the Tomb in my campaign and my players liked it. A little more than a year has passed since the battle with Acererak, and they sometimes...
Reading this thread (hi everyone, by the way - first post here on ENWorld!) I thought reasonable that the Hybrid could be Ashildr, judging by the words the Doctor said at the end of Heaven Sent.
But re-watching the first two episodes of this season I noticed something I had forgotten. Davros...