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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8392452" data-attributes="member: 6801228">And what counts as meta-information?AC is a meta-information concept, but asking what armor someone wears makes perfect sense. Hit Points are meta-game information, but as many players point out, knowing how exhausted/badly injured their opponent is is something that they should clearly be aware of. There are many concepts that are just easier to discuss and express in terms of the meta-mechanics, than they are the in-world fiction. These lines are a bit blurry. For example, I had a DM once who had us fighting a Draco-lich. My character was a storm sorcerer and I had been bored and curious, so I was keeping track of my damage that fight. And I'd been unleashing multiple spells a round for nearly an hour, the fight was nearly over it seemed and I'd done nearly 300 points of damage by myself. I commented to the DM that this thing was incredibly tough, because I knew how much I'd hit it for, and the rest of the party were doing somewhat similiar. The DM's Response? &quot;Oh, he's immune to lightning damage, he used to be a Blue Dragon.&quot; Round after round, spell after spell, had been wasted, because the DM had just been taking the damage numbers, rolling the saves, and never said anything about something that my character would have noticed. Meta-information, but also in-world pertinent.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8392452, member: 6801228"] And what counts as meta-information? AC is a meta-information concept, but asking what armor someone wears makes perfect sense. Hit Points are meta-game information, but as many players point out, knowing how exhausted/badly injured their opponent is is something that they should clearly be aware of. There are many concepts that are just easier to discuss and express in terms of the meta-mechanics, than they are the in-world fiction. These lines are a bit blurry. For example, I had a DM once who had us fighting a Draco-lich. My character was a storm sorcerer and I had been bored and curious, so I was keeping track of my damage that fight. And I'd been unleashing multiple spells a round for nearly an hour, the fight was nearly over it seemed and I'd done nearly 300 points of damage by myself. I commented to the DM that this thing was incredibly tough, because I knew how much I'd hit it for, and the rest of the party were doing somewhat similiar. The DM's Response? "Oh, he's immune to lightning damage, he used to be a Blue Dragon." Round after round, spell after spell, had been wasted, because the DM had just been taking the damage numbers, rolling the saves, and never said anything about something that my character would have noticed. Meta-information, but also in-world pertinent. [/QUOTE]

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