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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6690836" data-attributes="member: 6775031">There are known unknowns, and there are unknown unknowns. The players may not know that there's a Balor on the other side of the castle, or even what a Balor is capable of, but they should know that getting plenty of rest is an important part of staying alive. If challenging yourself and not playing it safe is an important part of learning, then they should know that as well.There's a lot that they don't know, but they know that they don't know it, and they can make decisions based on that fact. For everything that they do know, though, it should reflect the reality of the game world - especially when it involves variables that they can observe and verify experimentally. (If I used my rule, but didn't tell them about it, then they would eventually figure it out anyway.)This is a role-playing game. I don't exist. The players don't exist either. All that exists is the game world, and the characters within that world. Nobody is gaming anything. Meta-gaming is expressly forbidden, unless there is overwhelming justification (such as bringing in a new character, where the player would otherwise be sidelined for hours on end).My job, as a designer of that game world, is to create in such a way that the characters exploring the world will engage in interesting events and make interesting decisions. I'm designing a physics engine for how objects interact with each other. I think that a physics engine that ties learning to the number of challenges overcome in a day - to represent the increased difficulty of sequential challenges - is a good model that will make for more interesting decisions and create a more interesting story in the end.Your suggestion of side-quests, where the characters are presented with multiple objectives to complete at once such that resting would require backtracking and would be discouraged, is a good suggestion. I thank you for that.</blockquote>

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