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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jbear" data-source="post: 4819299" data-attributes="member: 75065">I guess each DM draws the line around the shape he wants his game to take. The players learn to adapt to the style and make decision based on their reading of the information given to them. Either Frank saying: 'I'm bloodied and down to 18 HP, I'm going to need some healing' Or in Karin's Dad's game: K Dad describes the near miss (which took away 16 HP and left the PC near death) of the enemies viscious blow, after a series of viscious attacks that has the PC unbalanced and under serious pressure. The PC cries out as a free action: 'Get this beast off me, I can't hold him off any longer...? PCs react (or not) accordingly, aware that their ally is in serious danger. Both seem like valid and fun options from where I'm standing. Both completely doable with the 4e system. It seems like a question of preference. If your players don't enjoy a game without explicit metagame information they wouldn't be playing with you. And viceversa.</blockquote>