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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 6870282" data-attributes="member: 6787503">Yes, but what happens if Chuck's player (not Chuck) has been through this type of scenario before and has learned that male ogres, due to a trait created by severe inbreeding, are all deaf in their right ear? Now Chuck's player is faced with the challenge of whether to use this information to Chuck's benefit and have Chuck sneak past the ogre's right side (possibly gaining advantage for Chuck or avoiding a check entirely), or whether to refrain from metagaming and leave Chuck's fate up to chance. Some of the posters on this thread seem to be saying this challenge, which is a challenge to Chuck's player alone and not to Chuck at all, since Chuck has no idea that his player has a chance to metagame, is the primary challenge of the game, i.e. how to faithfully portray the role of your character. My feeling is that the above scenario represents a challenge for the DM, rather than for the player, and that the primary activity of the game should consist in interacting with the fiction, not in struggling to play the game correctly.</blockquote>