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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 5009435" data-attributes="member: 18701">Yeah, casting Detect Evil just to see if someone is evil or not is not metagaming unless you only decided to cast it because the DM made an out-of-game comment about the NPC being evil. You can be paranoid and cast the spell all you want just to get info on an NPC...it's a little strange and insulting to NPCs, but it's not metagaming. Here is an example of metagaming an alignment scenario by using spells. In one of my games, a PC unknowingly drank a love potion in a tavern while the other PCs were having drinks at another table. A disguised Satyr was trying to take advantage of her. One player (who seemed to cheat a lot and no longer plays with us) decided to cast Magic Circle Against Evil on himself and walked all the way across the tavern just to stand next to the other PC. She was not doing anything out of the ordinary that her PC has not done before (she can be pretty flirtatious), and she actually wasn't doing anything odd besides talking to the Satyr. There really wasn't even any reason for the other PC to be watching her. The only reason he cast that spell was because he heard me tell her she has fallen in love with this NPC against her will. He said, "I want the Magic Circle in her area to see if her attitude changes any". But there was no reason he would think her attitude was any different. In fact, he was a new player and his PC knew her for about 2 days in game. That's funny, this exact scenario came up a couple of sessions ago in our game. The Elf Ranger started pulling out his acid flasks and chucking them at the Trolls, even though I've never used a Troll encounter in this 6 year long campaign. I pointed this out to the player and I know he wasn't meaning to metagame. This PC is a replacement to the one that died. He's from the Beastlands and is level 10 (started at lvl 8), so I said it was ok and that he could have encountered Forest Trolls or something earlier in his life.</blockquote>

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