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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IceBear" data-source="post: 1535903" data-attributes="member: 1118">You sound like a good player, and I really doubt anyone thought that SB or S'mon were bad DMs.  I would like to think that most serious players would prefer to make sub-optimal choices in order to have more fun (I know my group does).  I think people are taking this debate and turning it into two black and white camps where the truth lies in the grey middle area.  Most players would prefer a good story over nitpicking rules (again, in my experience).One thing that I try to do in these forums is pretend that my answer considers the "lowest common demoninator" if you will.  If there is a group out there that consists of people that simply can't stop metagaming, making SM a passive check by the DM will help shield that group from themselves as much as possible.  Of course if you've got a group that can ingnore metagame clues and stay in character then it's mostly irrelevant if it's active or passive, but, as I said, I try to think about the other side of the coin too.</blockquote>