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<blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 7568882" data-attributes="member: 97077">Roleplaying is, literally, the act of playing out a role. In this case, it’s the player determining how the character thinks, acts, and talks. If I decide my character, now a 1-Int toad, is startled by what's going on and leaps unfortunately to its death, then I am roleplaying by determining how it thinks and acts.You are for some reason adding another requirement to roleplaying which is that I have to pretend like I don't know the rules of the game. What's more, you're judging my action based on what you THINK is going on in my head rather than just the action myself. You're effectively accusing the player of wrong-think, even if the action described is perfectly reasonable in context.Mine would be to have the frog squished bright between the toes of the bard's open-toed shoes (bad day to wear your magic red-bottoms, bard, and now they're bloody shoes!), then have the fighter appear in a puff of green smoke, prone, nearly tripping up the bard.If I as DM wasn't okay with that outcome, perhaps because I didn't want it to be so easy to break the polymorph spell, I would turn the fighter into a killer whale. I would do that especially if I cared as much about &quot;metagaming&quot; as some of you. My challenges would not be based on players pretending not to know what they know.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="iserith, post: 7568882, member: 97077"] Roleplaying is, literally, the act of playing out a role. In this case, it’s the player determining how the character thinks, acts, and talks. If I decide my character, now a 1-Int toad, is startled by what's going on and leaps unfortunately to its death, then I am roleplaying by determining how it thinks and acts. You are for some reason adding another requirement to roleplaying which is that I have to pretend like I don't know the rules of the game. What's more, you're judging my action based on what you THINK is going on in my head rather than just the action myself. You're effectively accusing the player of wrong-think, even if the action described is perfectly reasonable in context. Mine would be to have the frog squished bright between the toes of the bard's open-toed shoes (bad day to wear your magic red-bottoms, bard, and now they're bloody shoes!), then have the fighter appear in a puff of green smoke, prone, nearly tripping up the bard. If I as DM wasn't okay with that outcome, perhaps because I didn't want it to be so easy to break the polymorph spell, I would turn the fighter into a killer whale. I would do that especially if I cared as much about "metagaming" as some of you. My challenges would not be based on players pretending not to know what they know. [/QUOTE]

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