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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 5843823" data-attributes="member: 13703">Or possibly just the starting point of escalating passive agressive behaviour.Personally if I had a player continually peeking at my adventure notes I'd politely ask them to stop.  If they continued doing it they would get a more formal warning, so they knew I was serious.  If it still continued booting would be the next step.Thankfully I'm lucky to have a group that I trust to the point of not having a DM screen.  All my rolls are done in the open, apart from ones where they shouldn't know the result (i.e. hiding skill check, checking for traps).Given the open-ness of this set up, sometimes I will give the players that sit next to me a little tease my having in plain sight a picture of a certain monster, or have the MM open to a particular page.The only thing I do tend to hide is my minis.  Often I'll leave the ones I need on my bookcase in another room and go and grab them when I'm about to use them.The only reason I do that though is I like seeing their reactions when I put the minis down on the table.  If I had them sitting next to me the whole session they still might bug-out a little when they saw it, but it still doesn't give the same joint instantaneous reaction you get when you plonk a Beholder down on the battlemat!I can still remember my players "Oh S#$%!!!" reactions from our Shackled City campaign when they were just 2nd level and I put a Beholder on the table.  This was probably matched by their reactions to the Glabrezu and the Dracolich! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />Olaf the Stout</blockquote>

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