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<blockquote data-quote="Templeton580" data-source="post: 2227262" data-attributes="member: 31893">It isn't metagaming.&nbsp;It's using the situation as a way to spark a new storyline, rather than getting fed up, posting on EN World that your druid has gone wild, and soliciting builds that will take him down a notch (which, IMO, leads to an antagonistic relationship between DM and Players).&nbsp;&nbsp;You completely contradict yourself here. First you say that the &quot;DM is having super-powerful creatures challenge the PC because he doesn't like the stuff that the PC is doing in the game,&quot; but then you say that having a gold dragon show up to find out who's been impersonating gold dragons would be &quot;unfairly biased by the fact that the DM doesn't like what the *player* is doing&quot;. There's absolutely no difference between the two.&nbsp;Aren't the DM and the player sitting at a table together, taking on roles in a fantasy game? Playing parts in a fantasy, so to speak? How is it metagaming for one person to take on roles, based on actions taken *in-game* by another person?&nbsp;My suggestions were meant to spark new storylines, not give the DM an opportunity to use a &quot;mouthpiece&quot; to summarily bust down the PC for what the player is doing. The first half of my post (which you may not have noticed) was attempting to make that clear.&nbsp;EDIT: If the issue is solely with misread spell descriptions, that's a whole different bullette.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Templeton580, post: 2227262, member: 31893"] It isn't metagaming. It's using the situation as a way to spark a new storyline, rather than getting fed up, posting on EN World that your druid has gone wild, and soliciting builds that will take him down a notch (which, IMO, leads to an antagonistic relationship between DM and Players). You completely contradict yourself here. First you say that the "DM is having super-powerful creatures challenge the PC because he doesn't like the stuff that the PC is doing in the game," but then you say that having a gold dragon show up to find out who's been impersonating gold dragons would be "unfairly biased by the fact that the DM doesn't like what the *player* is doing". There's absolutely no difference between the two. Aren't the DM and the player sitting at a table together, taking on roles in a fantasy game? Playing parts in a fantasy, so to speak? How is it metagaming for one person to take on roles, based on actions taken *in-game* by another person? My suggestions were meant to spark new storylines, [i]not[/i] give the DM an opportunity to use a "mouthpiece" to summarily bust down the PC for what the player is doing. The first half of my post (which you may not have noticed) was attempting to make that clear. EDIT: If the issue is solely with misread spell descriptions, that's a whole different bullette. [/QUOTE]

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