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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goumindong" data-source="post: 4455255" data-attributes="member: 70874">Given that there is a very significant difference between a spoiler one month in advance when there is likely to already be foreshadowing in play and and a spoiler months[or years in advance when players need to be acting under an entirely different set of assumptions your argument that their reasoning is silly is thoroughly refutedDMs are the directors, but WotC cannot release the information to DMs without possibly releasing the information to players. And, like any spoiler, once you learn it, you can't unlearn it.  Players are like actors, except in our play, the actors do not take direction from the director. The director is the guy in the audience of an improv skill that is yelling out places and settings the players have to deal with. Even though there is a narrative to these places and situations, the players are acting in their own best interest and not in the interest of the narrative.It is a valid judgment that the value of the information to the DM's[who have the power to change what they need] may not be outweighed by the costs imposed by the information possibly being known by the players.</blockquote>