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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 8991290" data-attributes="member: 40176">I find this line of thought utterly foreign to my experience of GMing any game system. Part of the GM's job is to embody any creature in the world other than the PCs. In some systems that embodiment may have constraints based upon the shared fiction, but generally speaking, it's up to you to decide the motivations and actions of any NPC. That's not something that can be comprehensively hard-coded into the rules.As for 'cheating' because you're acting from a position of superior knowledge, that's just an occupational hazard of running a game. You always know more than the players, and any time they discuss their plans in front of you, you're privy to knowledge of their actions and intentions that none of the NPCs you're playing have access to.Being able to separate that knowledge from your in-character decision making is a basic skill for GMs, and for players too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 8991290, member: 40176"] I find this line of thought utterly foreign to my experience of GMing any game system. Part of the GM's job is to embody any creature in the world other than the PCs. In some systems that embodiment may have constraints based upon the shared fiction, but generally speaking, it's up to you to decide the motivations and actions of any NPC. That's not something that can be comprehensively hard-coded into the rules. As for 'cheating' because you're acting from a position of superior knowledge, that's just an occupational hazard of running a game. You always know more than the players, and any time they discuss their plans in front of you, you're privy to knowledge of their actions and intentions that none of the NPCs you're playing have access to. Being able to separate that knowledge from your in-character decision making is a basic skill for GMs, and for players too. [/QUOTE]

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