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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8061488" data-attributes="member: 7025508">Right. But lets assume that one player invested in knowledge skills and and onether just used their OOC knowledge? You don't think that gaining the knowledge via OOC means thus negating the need for the skill would in this instance be unfair to the player who invested resource in the skill?This actually confuses me. Sure, you can do that. Like how in the Valindra example a lot of people suggested that once they kill 'the lich' it turns out it was just an innocent elf with the same name. But this implies that you would actually want to discourage metagaming and I really don't believe in trying to 'educate' players in roundabout way in the game. If I don't wan them to do something (like use meta knowledge) I just tell them that instead pretending to be OK with it and then later punishing them for it in the game. I kinda get it, but if I want to freeform then I will freeform and not have some weird hybrid where there is a DM and rules which can be ignored in certain situations if the player feels like it.</blockquote>