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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mephistopheles" data-source="post: 3154428" data-attributes="member: 4460">Actually in the first case it's the DM making a tactical decision. In this example the DM has read his player correctly or just guessed correctly and passed that benefit on to the NPC.In the second the DM is fully informed and makes a judgement call on whether or not he feels the wizard would make the correct tactical decision or not. If the DM is using the information to make fair calls that are appropriate to the situation I see no problem with this.Neither approach is necessarily better. Personally I prefer the second because it casts the DM in what I think is the more correct role of accepting full input from the players and making meaningful judgement calls based on that input, while the first seems more like the DM is being expected to play wargames against his players and the effectiveness of the NPCs is depending more on the DMs ability to do that than it is on the DM making judgement calls in response to input from the players.</blockquote>