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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 1597368" data-attributes="member: 19675">Here's a negative example of the PC knowing something the player doesn't:I had figured out the puzzle of a certain symbol in a campaign, and had mentioned it to the DM, who confirmed my suspicions.Due to forces beyond our control, we were unable to game again for nearly 2 months.When we got back together, I asked him to remind me about the symbol, since I had figured it out, but 2 months had caused me to lose the thread of the puzzle.  He refused.  I reminded him that this was knowledge my PC had.  He refused again.  Despite only a night of game time passing, he ruled my PC had forgotten that knowledge just like I had.That campaign didn't last long after that.  (Note- not because of that incident.)He told me, however, that had I actually remembered the answer to the puzzle, I would have short-circuited the campaign by a great deal, and in such a way that a TPK could have resulted.Similarly, another campaign in the same group was derailed when the player didn't quite get that "The Prince" was the absolute monarch in the area- something the PC would have known.  When he took actions that could have been considered subversive to the Prince's regime, he was exiled.  The player was shocked- he assumed that there was a higher authority to whom he could argue his case- a King, Queen, Emperor, etc.; the DM stopped running that campaign soon after.</blockquote>