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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7215971" data-attributes="member: 6775031">In my experience, the most common cause of such &quot;meta-gaming&quot; is simply a lack of communication between the player and the DM. Even if the character shouldn't know about the possibility of invisible monsters, the player doesn't know that the character shouldn't know that, because the DM failed to adequately describe the setting.The question of how much the characters know about the setting beforehand is a significant one, which can greatly change the tone of a campaign. If you're playing in the Forgotten Realms, then it makes sense that everyone would immediately assume invisibility, because spellcasters are all over the place in that setting. If you're playing in a setting that's more historical, then perhaps nobody would think of it unless they'd encountered it before. The easiest way to resolve this question is usually to make a check, using the appropriate knowledge-type skill, where the DM can set the DCs as appropriate for the setting; that way, it only takes a brief conversation at the start of the game to get everyone on the same page about what can be assumed and what requires a check (and how high those checks are likely to be).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 7215971, member: 6775031"] In my experience, the most common cause of such "meta-gaming" is simply a lack of communication between the player and the DM. Even if the [I]character[/I] shouldn't know about the possibility of invisible monsters, the [I]player[/I] doesn't [I]know[/I] that the character shouldn't know that, because the [I]DM[/I] failed to adequately describe the setting. The question of how much the characters know about the setting beforehand is a significant one, which can greatly change the tone of a campaign. If you're playing in the Forgotten Realms, then it makes sense that everyone would immediately assume invisibility, because spellcasters are all over the place in that setting. If you're playing in a setting that's more historical, then perhaps nobody would think of it unless they'd encountered it before. The easiest way to resolve this question is usually to make a check, using the appropriate knowledge-type skill, where the DM can set the DCs as appropriate for the setting; that way, it only takes a brief conversation at the start of the game to get everyone on the same page about what can be assumed and what requires a check (and how high those checks are likely to be). [/QUOTE]

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