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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arrowhawk" data-source="post: 5742550" data-attributes="member: 6679551">How would that be metagamy?  I would assume any group assigned to kill someone is going to put a plan together, especially if the frontal assault failed.   There's a module in Stormwrack which talks about the Goblins always ganging up on the weakest creatures first because they aren't stupid and they know that this is the quickest way to use their superior numbers to win a fight.What I do think dances on the metagame line is when a DM creates the BBEG who has no relationship to the last BBEG the party whooped.   As a DM, you quickly identify the tactics the PC's use to win battles.  Invariably, you account for that with the next BBEG, especially if the prior BBEG went down way too quickly.   This goes to the Wizard argument.  The DM has perfect knowledge of what magic and feats a party will bring to the table...when in reality, the BBEG Wizard...might not.  Especially if the DM does not provide a plausible way for the Wizard to determine info about the party prior to the adventure. Even still, when you're building the BBEG spell list, you're doing it with that a piori knowledge of what the Wizard will face.  It's the DM's job to make the game challenging, but tailoring the bad guy to win against specifically against the party crosses into that "metagamey" region you touched on.  Right, so that meant he had to memorize nothing but Contingency at 6th and GOI,L at 4th.  Ignoring magic items.  Imo, speaks to Greylord's point.  This Wizard is running around with Contingency, but it's because he's got enemies.  Tha threat is forcing the Wizard to devoted some of his precious spell allotment towards contending with those enemies.  In this case, other casters.  That makes the Wizard ill-prepared for different kind of threat i.e. the Monk.  You can't prepare two separate Contingency spells at the same time.   You've got to make a choice and without the right information, you are less prepared, or, not prepared at all.  This is never ever conceded by the pro-Wizard camp (and you are the pro-Monk camp, so you don't count <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />  ) ha.</blockquote>

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