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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7739717" data-attributes="member: 996">I'm not sure that playing a hot-headed character in a game with mechanics that model that is loss of player agency (assuming you chose that trait). Actually, I think behavior mechanics may have little to do with it......maybe I need a refresher on the official definition? I can't say I care for that attitude, myself, but if wood elves in the setting have a cultural taboo or an instinctual aversion or something, then taking that into account makes sense.  It would be more forthright to just say 'stop metagaming' or 'stop using player knowledge'  In the eds of D&D that have that skill, that use is not kosher, IIRC. In the ed of D&D that originated that, the fluff could be altered ("Actually I find him so insufferable that I get hps back just to show him up"), and the mechanics of the effect gave the recipient the opportunities to expend a resource to recover hps, so if you felt it was out of character, you just wouldn't do so. Though, the 5e PDK's similar ability heals regardless (you could renounce the status of ally, or, since it requires seeing or hearing the PDK, close your eyes and go "nahnahnyah! can't hear you!").</blockquote>