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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 6204343" data-attributes="member: 221">I understand that we are looking at it from different perspectives. But that first sentence is still nonsensical. I don't know about "world's" of differences, but sure, some game tables handle information distribution differently than others. That's a given. In my particular games, there is a certain level of information that the players get merely by "being there" and then some they have to work for, roll for, or deduce. It should, I think, in most normal D&D games, be a balance.But in a game where the player actively searches for information, and finds it, it is still the DM that must distribute the information. There is no other valid way, in Dungeons and Dragons for a PC to obtain non-PC information (that is information not created by themselves or another PC) except through the DM. Let's say a player used a Detect Magic spell. Is it not, in the normal course of events, going to be the DM who then shares the information concerning what is or is not magical?  This sharing of information is a distribution. To say it is not is to alter the meaning of the word.</blockquote>