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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 8055077" data-attributes="member: 6804070">Not your call to make. Doesn't matter what your stats are. It is up to the DM to tell you what history or lore you're character might know. In Part, BECAUSE maybe the NPC is not a lich, yet. Maybe she is but no one knows about it. Maybe a thousand things that you ignored.No your character doesn't. You the player think this NPC is a lich, but even you do not know it. Because DMs are free to change anything at their table.That would simple be evil. Your characters are going to murder someone because a player thinks they NPC is evil. But again, you don't know it. And your characters have no reason to believe it. So, murdering someone like this would be a pure evil act.Absolutely. You need to learn to separate  your knowledge from that of the character. It's what is called make believe, or in our community Role playing.I would have so much fun screwing with a player like you at my table. I would use your player knowledge against you. Oh, you meet Laeral Silverhand, she's a beautiful elven princess who needs your help. And then betrays you because she is an evil lich and puts your souls in a magic jar. Roll new characters. Next party, oh you meet XYZ who you know is an evil Zhent, nope, he's a polymorphed ancient gold dragon, you are now dead since you tried to kill him.What you are doing is a lot like reading the module before you play it. You are making the DMs job harder, you are taking away fun from the other players by removing mystery. In short you are being a bad player.Now, instead of saying "She's a lich!" Say to your party and the DM, "I've got a bad feeling about her. Can I get a feeling if I should trust her? Or perhaps since I've studied in history have I ever heard of her name or someone matching her description?" Then your DM can maybe have you roll and tell you what you know and what you feel about her. Then you get to react according to what your character knows. And what fun it might be when the mystery is revealed. And, don't hesitate to tell the DM, privately and out of session, hey, I read the Salvatore books and I think I know this character. So just in case, feel free to mix things up.</blockquote>

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