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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8436671" data-attributes="member: 29398">It's that the specific information has been shared, where that specific information wouldn't yet be known in the fiction.When you've never seen any of the father, daughter, or Kraken before and thus have no idea what makes any of them tick beyond the obvious (e.g. she's small, the beast has tentacles and can swim), why do you expect to be told exactly what their mechanics are?The father, for example, could be a common-joe fisher or a 3rd-level Fighter in the army or a 12th-level Wizard who's retired to raise his kid; but until he does something other than row a boat you have no way of telling.  The daughter could be a polymorphed demon that the father has just summoned the Kraken to devour; you can't tell.And in older editions where illusion spells were actually useful, the whole damn scene could be somebody's afternoon entertainment. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I don't see these things as an either-or.  I generally prefer the mechanics stay out of sight until they're forced to rear their ugly heads, but I also tend to dislike being railroaded and can usually tell if-when it's happening.It's the same way I view cars.  I love driving the things but I've no real clue - and don't much care - what goes on under the hood as long as it runs reliably and gets me where I want to go.</blockquote>

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