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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7844616" data-attributes="member: 29398">Even the most co-operative of parties would split apart if the situation told them to:You're the sneak, we're clanky metalheads, so you scout ahead while we wait here. <DM pulls player of scout PC aside to play out the scouting without others knowledge or interference>We need to keep watch on the guildhouse but also check the library archives for ownership records; so you two hit the library while we stand watch here. <DM plays through one group first, then the other>And so on.I see your underlying point, however, is that players are expected to play their PCs as meta-trustworthy in the eyes of the other PCs.  I don't buy into this at all, as I quite like the trope of the spy or turncoat or thief; or of parties whose PCs are operating with different (and sometimes opposing) goals in mind.</blockquote>