Ricochet
Explorer
I agree that a player using his or her knowledge of every monster and spell can be quite bad for the rest of the players. It can negatively impact other players' enjoyment of the campaign, particularly if the rest of the players didn't know a monsters stats/weaknesses/etc by heart. I also agree, both as GM and player, that trial and error can be very fun.
I have a player in my group who often goes. "Oh, a SOMETHING MONSTER. We'll just do A,B,C" and the rest of the players desperately try to have their characters NOT know it all afterwards, and are disappointed by having things spoiled by what I would define as OOC knowledge by a PC. After the other players said how they felt about it, the player in question has become less prone to blurt these things out, but definitely still uses the knowledge for any character he/she is playing.
As the GM, I find it slightly annoying and I don't understand the appeal of presenting every character made with all the information the PLAYER knows, but I don't want to fall into the trap of changing every monster just to challenge the one player who already has all the answers.
I have a player in my group who often goes. "Oh, a SOMETHING MONSTER. We'll just do A,B,C" and the rest of the players desperately try to have their characters NOT know it all afterwards, and are disappointed by having things spoiled by what I would define as OOC knowledge by a PC. After the other players said how they felt about it, the player in question has become less prone to blurt these things out, but definitely still uses the knowledge for any character he/she is playing.
As the GM, I find it slightly annoying and I don't understand the appeal of presenting every character made with all the information the PLAYER knows, but I don't want to fall into the trap of changing every monster just to challenge the one player who already has all the answers.