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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 4453115" data-attributes="member: 158">There was an article that came out decades ago in Dragon Magazine (#74, I think?) Called &quot;Be Aware, take care&quot; by Lew Pulsipher for AD&amp;D 1st ed. It was all the sorts of in-character things a party of mercenary adventurers might do to survive any given adventure in which a DM actively threw challenges in the game at them that were designed to take advantage of a player's lack of caution that a &quot;real&quot; adventurer wouldn't get caught in. For example:1. Lever in the middle of the room, with nothing else but a sign that says, &quot;pull me.&quot; Do you walk up and pull it, or do you use a rope or a pole to do it for you?2. Goblin in the room has no apparent treasure. Do you give up in frustration, or spend time checking furniture for hidden compartments and the walls and floors and ceiling for secret doors?3. You run into a cave full of statues of people in poses suggesting stark fear. Do you walk ahead boldly, or pull out the mirrors and have one guy lead the way while you avert your eyes to the periphery and follow him?That sort of thing. These days, we'd call it &quot;metagaming&quot;, but originally metagaming as a term was rarely used 15 or twenty years ago.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 4453115, member: 158"] There was an article that came out decades ago in Dragon Magazine (#74, I think?) Called "Be Aware, take care" by Lew Pulsipher for AD&D 1st ed. It was all the sorts of in-character things a party of mercenary adventurers might do to survive any given adventure in which a DM actively threw challenges in the game at them that were designed to take advantage of a player's lack of caution that a "real" adventurer wouldn't get caught in. For example: 1. Lever in the middle of the room, with nothing else but a sign that says, "pull me." Do you walk up and pull it, or do you use a rope or a pole to do it for you? 2. Goblin in the room has no apparent treasure. Do you give up in frustration, or spend time checking furniture for hidden compartments and the walls and floors and ceiling for secret doors? 3. You run into a cave full of statues of people in poses suggesting stark fear. Do you walk ahead boldly, or pull out the mirrors and have one guy lead the way while you avert your eyes to the periphery and follow him? That sort of thing. These days, we'd call it "metagaming", but originally metagaming as a term was rarely used 15 or twenty years ago. [/QUOTE]

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