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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faerl'Elghinn" data-source="post: 1580656" data-attributes="member: 17810">While this is certainly a valid initial strategy, I find it somewhat unreasonable over the span of several years.  The main drawback to perpetually maintaining such a policy, in my opinion, is that one may be unintentionally depriving himself and others of the opportunity to find a DM with a special talent, which is a rare and beautiful thing indeed.  As good as you may think you are, one of your players may very well have the potential to be be better than you can even imagine.The main negative change I would project between ignorance and enlightenment for players would be that the original DM might become less comfortable with improvisation, as doing so too liberally might provoke criticism from the players for "cheating".  As a steadfast advocate of improvisation, I would definitely see this as a problem.  Another negative aspect is that, if players know what everything does, it begins to seem less fresh and thereby less exciting, which can cause roleplay to suffer.  If players are good at roleplay, however, they should be pretty adept at differentiating between personal knowledge and character knowledge, although an occasional lapse is inevitable.  Additionally, a good DM will be able to easily overcome this obstacle by applying a little bit of creativity and originality. Conversely, however, as a player I like to know where I stand with regard to the rules, as not to stand for overly flagrant abuses of the "DM=God" rule.  While in some respects this rule is beneficial to the game, I find much more enjoyment in games where the DM is a little more flexible and willing to compromise.  Just my 2 bucks (inflation <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> )...</blockquote>

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