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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 539609" data-attributes="member: 5171">Put me in the middle ground.On the one hand, I HATE it when players metagame the fact that they know the Wisdom and Intelligence of all of their friends.On the other hand, so much of combats are dice-rolling without description that it's important to give the other players SOME information about how things look, even if you don't say it. I don't like players knowing MORE than their characters, but I don't like them knowing less than their characters, either.Example:Too much information:This is Garn -- he's a rogue3/fighter2, and he's got dodge, mobility, spring attack, and weapon focus: Greatsword!Too little information:This is Garn. He's wearing a chain shirt and has a greatsword on his back.About right:This is Garn. After that last combat with the orcs, you saw that his fighting style is pretty fluid, and he's good at maneuvering around the battlefield. He didn't fight as well as Maurn, your dwarven warrior buddy, but he has obviously had some formal training with the greatsword he carries.I dunno.  Something like that.  I like to create a bit more realism, both in MORE and LESS information.In a related question: How do DMs here let their players communicate in terms of hit points?Examples:"Hey, Sir Healsalot, I'm at 13 of 58 hit points. Slap a Cure Crit on me, yah?""The Thumb" -- this is what my group has compromised on. Thumb up, thumb down, thumb at an angle.  Ideally, the players add description, too, like "It's amazing that he's still on his feet (thumb way down)" or "No big wounds, but he's tired and moving a bit more slowly (thumb at about two-thirds up for a mid-to-high-level character, where hit points become more abstract)".or even:"Sarcein insists that he's feeling fine, though you can tell he's limping a little, and occasionally grips his left arm when he thinks no one is looking."The problem with the last one is that the players don't know what that means, hit-point-wise, but the characters would. The cleric would know from experience whether that means that Sarcein needs the big-guns heal spells, or something lighter.Thoughts?-Tacky</blockquote>

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