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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7941843" data-attributes="member: 6785785">That's not true. Role-playing doesn't require you to abandon all knowledge you possess beyond the role you are playing. And playing a role doesn't mean you can't make decisions based on things outside the role, it just means that there also needs to be a fictional reason for the decision. So I can have my PC go on an adventure because that's the game and if I stay on the farm.....a perfectly reasonable and probably desirable choice for the character....then nothing fun happens. There's no reason that metagaming and roleplaying need to be at odds.Not really, no. I think that there's a bit in 5E about discouraging metagame thinking. But there's nothing that says it's "explicitly against the rules".  Exactly what they are advising is open to interpretation. And there are plenty of roleplaying games where it's absolutely not against the rules, and may in fact be encouraged. I'm sure that you'll say that "those games are storytelling games not roleplaying games" or some such, and that's where I will say that your opinion is poo.</blockquote>