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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6865545" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!&nbsp;Like I said in some other thread a few weeks ago...I let my players decide if their characters would know something or not. However... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ... I also tend to describe a monster and let the players decide what it is they are facing.Based on if these particular PC's have encountered/seen this creature before...if they have, I can just tell them &quot;You see two trolls&quot;. If they haven't, I say &quot;You see two huge creatures. Perhaps 8' tall each. They have massive shoulders, long arms, with hands going down to their knees. Tipping their finders are long, 3&quot; or more, black talons. Their heads are elongated, almost cone-like, with a pointed and prominent nose, and wide, shark-like teeth under it. Eyes are black as pitch, with no colour or white. Their grey-green skin is covered with knobby protrusions, almost like a leathery armor&quot;. (OK, maybe not quite so eloquently put...but that's the gist of it).If they players think they are ogres...so be it. If they think they are bugbears...so be it. If they say &quot;What in the stinky arm pits of Beelzebub are those!&quot;... so be it. They will learn later on, maybe, what &quot;those things&quot; were. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 6865545, member: 45197"] Hiya! Like I said in some other thread a few weeks ago...I let my players decide if their characters would know something or not. However... ;) ... I also tend to describe a monster and let the players decide what it is they are facing. Based on if these particular PC's have encountered/seen this creature before...if they have, I can just tell them "[I]You see two trolls[/I]". If they haven't, I say "[I]You see two huge creatures. Perhaps 8' tall each. They have massive shoulders, long arms, with hands going down to their knees. Tipping their finders are long, 3" or more, black talons. Their heads are elongated, almost cone-like, with a pointed and prominent nose, and wide, shark-like teeth under it. Eyes are black as pitch, with no colour or white. Their grey-green skin is covered with knobby protrusions, almost like a leathery armor[/I]". (OK, maybe not [I]quite[/I] so eloquently put...but that's the gist of it). If they players think they are ogres...so be it. If they think they are bugbears...so be it. If they say [I]"What in the stinky arm pits of Beelzebub are those!"[/I]... so be it. They will learn later on, maybe, what "those things" were. ;) ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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