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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8827327" data-attributes="member: 6779196">And dumb luck is absolutely a possible thing that can happen.You’re entitled to your own opinion but you’re not entitled to your own facts. It is a fact that the human brain is not capable of disregarding relevant information when making a decision. You can either choose to act on the information you have, or you can consciously choose to act in a way that is contrary to the way that information would otherwise lead you to act. Either way, that information is the primary motivating factor in your decision-making.Now, certainly you can make a rule that if you have information your character wouldn’t, you are only allowed to act in ways that are contrary to how that information would lead you to act. However, this rule would first of all not lead to the same outcomes that would occur if the player simply never had any knowledge that the character didn’t have (as it precludes those dumb luck moments). Second, there are a lot of issues with actually enforcing this rule, the most significant being what happens when there’s disagreement over what the character would or wouldn’t know, and what do you do when there’s disagreement over what is or isn’t contrary to how the information would otherwise make the player want to act?</blockquote>