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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8058757" data-attributes="member: 6701124">I think the two are very different in terms of the players.  Even if it is not the playstyle suggested by the D&D rules anymore, the idea of playing the character as a character in the story or world is something some tables might find as part of the fun of the game  (even if it is obviously impossible to fully do).  It feels like many works of fiction would be very different if the authors had the different protagonists in all their books  regularly pull out the authors knowledge on various subject if it was helpful (even restricting it to knowledge outside the particular book being written).  Within the wotld, wouldn't the NPCs of the world react differently to a PC who regularly spouts out things they heard from reading grimoires of questionable quality or hearing voices that are sometimes wrong and sometimes not, vs. one who is always correct because they apparently either had a book of actual factual lore on important things that weren't common knowledge or are able to channel the truth?  It feels like one would get headshakes and the other could get many interested parties checking them out.   Do any of your players use out of character knowledge regularly and obviously enough that this would be an issue?  If it is infrequent, then it seems like a non-issue.  And, of course the idea of changing things up in the world so it isn't always fire that hurts every type of troll, and the common sense of not using famous names if you don't want them recognized fixes a lot of it.  I played in one group where one of the players actually typed up the results of the previous session story style as if it were chapters in a book the PCs were the main characters in.  It feels like someone reading those notes as if they were a book might get a different impression if the outside of game knowledge was used in some ways.   On the other hand, some might just wonder why anyone would think the a game session could make something close to a story a person could read like a book.</blockquote>

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