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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6756215" data-attributes="member: 22424">The other players enjoyed the game less as a result.As with pornography, it's damn hard to lock down a comprehensive definition, but you know it when you see it. And when you do see it, it becomes impossible to unsee it. And sure enough, when you see another player blatantly metagaming, it is very likely to impact on the fun of everyone else around the table. Evidently you aren't bothered by it, but I can assure you that others are.Now, as I've said in another post, the trolls + fire example has the problem that it's a very common monster and a very common weakness - to the extent that the DM trying to enforce that the character doesn't know that is frankly absurd (if your encounter really depends on that not being known, you've got problems). But if it's some obscure monster from some obscure tome (such as lowkey13's ClickClicks + November), or the player reading the adventure between sessions to bypass every mystery, or the PCs using a failed roll to deduce that an ambush is coming and to start preparing, then there very likely is a problem.As, in fact, you yourself have noted:</blockquote>