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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shirebrok" data-source="post: 6733001" data-attributes="member: 6675239">Meh, I don't mind players bringing "outside knowledge" into the game, as long as they provide interesting fiction to build upon their character or the game world along with it. Maybe I'll even get to use that some time later.Once in Lost Mine of Phandelver, the party's Rogue went ahead to scout what he figured out to be the campsite of a Red Wizard, but he was concerned about whether or not his character knew what a Red Wizard was.I told him it didn't change anything to the encounter at hand whether or not he knew, and if he elected to know, he could give just a bit of justification for it.He preferred not to, which is fine by me. But really would have liked to get a reason for him knowing this. Something like "They had approached my clan to make a 'deal' for our mines a few years back, but we drove them back." That's something I could have used in a future adventure, with an easy tie-in to the character's background.But I digress. I apologize; I like mining ideas from my players. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />So, yeah. Fiction comes first. Provide some good fiction and you're good to bring in outside knowledge at my table.</blockquote>