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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swarmkeeper" data-source="post: 9704086" data-attributes="member: 6921763">What younger me said 3.5ish years ago.I’d just add: I’d find it exhausting as a DM to police the motivations behind every action of the PCs if we cared about them using out of character information. Scenario:  party of five splits and the group of two is encountering trouble.PC in group of three: “hey friends, not much is happening here for us three, let’s go check on how the other two are doing.”I mean, am I to tell the player “your character wouldn’t do that” if the “other two” are encountering trouble since every player in the room just heard that was what was happening?  But am I to allow it if I had split the players up into different rooms?  Or do I then suspect that player of eavesdropping on the split session? Or is it ok for them to say that after a certain amount of time has passed?Examples abound. Personally not worth my mental energy.  Players can play their characters however they like (indeed 5e rules state the player determines how the PC thinks, acts, and talks) with whatever info they choose as long as they are adhering to the goals of play:  “everyone had a good time and created an exciting memorable story”.TL;DR: I get that some tables have fun by not metagaming; I personally find worrying about metagaming to be a deterrent to my own fun and our table’s.</blockquote>