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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 6755177" data-attributes="member: 23751">It doesn't match at all.  You said that simply using player knowledge to make a decision was metagaming and that's false.  It is specifically when you have the character use knowledge that it doesn't have, but the player does.  When I have my troll hunter who knows the troll's fire weakness use fire on a troll, I'm using player knowledge to make that decision (your definition), but I'm not metagaming.Your paragraph below is also very wrong.For that paragraph to be true, you have to prove that a PC can't use fire on trolls the first time he meets one when he grew up near the troll fen and knows all about trolls, or that a PC whose grandfather was a troll hunter and taught him about them couldn't have imparted that knowledge to him before his first troll encounter, or the thousands of other scenarios where a PC could acquire that knowledge in game prior to fighting trolls.There is no thought police.  There is metagaming.  Your suggestion above is more bupkis.  That's not how people who don't allow metagaming generally run their games, and you aren't required to metagame in order to avoid metagaming.  It's absurd of you to suggest that in order to avoid having my PC use knowledge he doesn't have, I have to have him use knowledge that he doesn't have.</blockquote>