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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8759825" data-attributes="member: 11760">I run my main campaign in Ptolus, a setting packed with major secrets, including earth-shattering ones about the nature of the world. Several of my players own the book and run games in it as well, and thus almost certainly know all the secrets I'm making relevant in the campaign. There has never been an issue in more than a decade of play.However, I also knew everyone for more than a decade beforehand and we'd done collaborative works together, so I knew they'd be fine. If a random person wanted to join the campaign, I would ask them not to buy the book or read spoilers about it until I had a better sense of whether they would be able to not let their outside knowledge influence play.Honestly, I don't think I've had an issue with players cheating this way -- and I do think of it as cheating -- since middle school, which is a bad standard to hold any adult to. I hope everyone has grown since middle school.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 8759825, member: 11760"] I run my main campaign in Ptolus, a setting [I]packed[/I] with major secrets, including earth-shattering ones about the nature of the world. Several of my players own the book and run games in it as well, and thus almost certainly know all the secrets I'm making relevant in the campaign. There has never been an issue in more than a decade of play. However, I also knew everyone for more than a decade beforehand and we'd done collaborative works together, so I knew they'd be fine. If a random person wanted to join the campaign, I would ask them not to buy the book or read spoilers about it until I had a better sense of whether they would be able to not let their outside knowledge influence play. Honestly, I don't think I've had an issue with players cheating this way -- and I do think of it as cheating -- since middle school, which is a bad standard to hold any adult to. I [I]hope[/I] everyone has grown since middle school. [/QUOTE]

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