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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Infiniti2000" data-source="post: 2816755" data-attributes="member: 31734"><p>Because what you posted is an accumulation of stats (gathered in game) by a player for other players (not in game).  If someone asks about the stats or some rules about monsters from a DM's perspective, there's no spoiler.  If a player asks about "What's the weakness of a ____?" or, as the analogy I drew, "How do we beat the BBEG in ____?" then he's looking for metagame knowledge.  If the player gains access to some chart of monster stats and is not doing it in character, I don't like it.  If it's merely an honest attempt to make things easier on the DM and with the DM's foreknowledge, that's okay, too.  But, quite honestly, I wouldn't like it, I just wouldn't complain about it.  I would not want my players looking up monsters' stats and cataloging them.</p></blockquote><p></p>