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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 6844935" data-attributes="member: 16814">Well, I looked back, and it turns out that, yes, I really said that.  I know, surprised me, too.Are you saying that if I know what a character has been made to say on a whim is actually correct and the player knows it, I should behave differently as a DM than I would if I believed the player in that situation had no clue that what they had said was even relevant, let alone correct?I am seeing a double-standard here; The player of the high INT character you describe above "ultimately controls his actions", but you have stated that the player of the interrupting character I described in my scenario is not afforded that same control of his characters actions.Why have you made that the case? Have you made an assumption of what the character in my scenario has for an INT score? If yes, can you say exactly what you assume the score to be, and what score it would have to be the for the player to ultimately control his character's actions?</blockquote>And, as it turns out, you're intentionally withholding information, which never leads to constructive discussions on how things would occur.  That's really just a method of laying traps.Additional information is good.  If they've always played a strange person that blurts out artistic things, I wouldn't think about it -- it's a character choice of behavior and even if it works correctly this time, I'd let it go as established.  If, on the other hand, the player blurted out the correct answer and has a habit of doing such things, yeah, I'd take their statement as OOC and let it work within the established table mechanic of discussion I've outlined above.  I responded to that in #711.[/QUOTE]

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