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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3040155" data-attributes="member: 18280">Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1) - Cite This Source new! hint /hɪnt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[hint] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun 1. an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue: Give me a hint as to his identity.  2. a very slight or hardly noticeable amount; soupçon: a hint of garlic in the salad dressing.  3. perceived indication or suggestion; note; intimation: a hint of spring in the air.  4. Obsolete. an occasion or opportunity.  –verb (used with object) 5. to give a hint of: gray skies hinting a possible snowfall.  –verb (used without object) 6. to make indirect suggestion or allusion; subtly imply (usually fol. by at): The article hinted at corruption in the mayor's office.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Origin: 1595–1605; (n.) orig., opportunity, occasion, appar. var. of obs. hent grasp, act of seizing, deriv. of the v.: to grasp, take, ME henten, OE hentan; (v.) deriv. of the n.] —Related forms hinter, noun —Synonyms 1. allusion, insinuation, innuendo; memorandum, reminder; inkling. 5. imply. Hint, intimate, insinuate, suggest denote the conveying of an idea to the mind indirectly or without full or explicit statement. To hint is to convey an idea covertly or indirectly, but intelligibly: to hint that one would like a certain present; to hint that bits of gossip might be true. To intimate is to give a barely perceptible hint, often with the purpose of influencing action: to intimate that something may be possible. To insinuate is to hint artfully, often at what one would not dare to say directly: to insinuate something against someone's reputation. Suggest denotes particularly recalling something to the mind or starting a new train of thought by means of association of ideas: The name doesn't suggest anything to me. —Antonyms 5. express, declare.I suggest that you are using definition (1) and I am using definition (3), above.When I examine the assumption, (3) That the DM has given no hints to the PCs that it is dangerous I am assuming that, if enough intimation exists that the PCs know or should reasonably have known that something is dangerous, perforce this knowledge arises out of "hints".  For example, a bridge over a river "hints" that the river can be crossed.  Nothing else is required, because the meaning of the term "bridge" is fairly universal.  The implications inherent in an object can be hints.  Indeed, all the hints you mentioned are based on the implications inherent in objects.  Well, except the warning written in orcish.   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> Likewise, that a pulling a lever inherently causes something to happen is more than just an inference gained through isolated and special circumstances -- it is inherent in the meaning of the object itself.RC</blockquote>

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