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<blockquote data-quote="daimaru42" data-source="post: 7211923" data-attributes="member: 6888724"><p>During our lest session my character (Erdan, a half-elf ranger) leveled up to 4 ~and~ picked up some magical items. </p><p>A +3 shortsword</p><p>Studded armor resistant to force damage</p><p>An increased dexterity bonus, boosting his armor class and attack and damage bonuses (all of his weapons are finesse)</p><p>A lucky roll with a d10 giving him 10 more hit points</p><p>My first thought was, "Wow! I can play Erdan much more aggressively now!" But then I thought, "Wait, does ~Erdan~ know this?" Or was I using meta knowledge here? Some of it he certainly knows, some of it I can think of a logical reason for him knowing, and some of it I'm not so sure.</p><p>He cast detect magic before he picked up the sword and armor so he knows they're better than his old stuff. Reasonably the sword ~feels~ better in his hand. While he doesn't know just ~how~ the armor is enhanced he might reasonably trust it more.</p><p>My logical reason for him knowing his other improvements is that he didn't ~really~ (for certain values of really <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) have them sprung on him full blown. He has been gaining experience points for months (real time) so I can assume he's been getting better incrementally all of that time. So he ~knows~ he's been getting better with his weapons (even if the ~game~ couldn't show it before now) and he knows he's been getting better at dodging blows.</p><p>The one I'm not sure about is hit points; just what are they as seen by Erdan? Is it toughness? Would he notice that he's getting better at shrugging off damage? Probably?</p><p></p><p>So, comments anyone?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="daimaru42, post: 7211923, member: 6888724"] During our lest session my character (Erdan, a half-elf ranger) leveled up to 4 ~and~ picked up some magical items. A +3 shortsword Studded armor resistant to force damage An increased dexterity bonus, boosting his armor class and attack and damage bonuses (all of his weapons are finesse) A lucky roll with a d10 giving him 10 more hit points My first thought was, "Wow! I can play Erdan much more aggressively now!" But then I thought, "Wait, does ~Erdan~ know this?" Or was I using meta knowledge here? Some of it he certainly knows, some of it I can think of a logical reason for him knowing, and some of it I'm not so sure. He cast detect magic before he picked up the sword and armor so he knows they're better than his old stuff. Reasonably the sword ~feels~ better in his hand. While he doesn't know just ~how~ the armor is enhanced he might reasonably trust it more. My logical reason for him knowing his other improvements is that he didn't ~really~ (for certain values of really :) ) have them sprung on him full blown. He has been gaining experience points for months (real time) so I can assume he's been getting better incrementally all of that time. So he ~knows~ he's been getting better with his weapons (even if the ~game~ couldn't show it before now) and he knows he's been getting better at dodging blows. The one I'm not sure about is hit points; just what are they as seen by Erdan? Is it toughness? Would he notice that he's getting better at shrugging off damage? Probably? So, comments anyone? [/QUOTE]
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