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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9261463" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I mean, does that not still give the players an active reason to distrust what you, their only source of information, tell them?It is one thing for a character to lie to them. Characters are (fictional) people who may be trustworthy or untrustworthy. It is quite another thing for the narrator-adjudicator to lie to the players. Because if you believe the narrator-adjudicator will lie to you, how do you know the difference? You literally can't get information except from them. You can't preserve player trust in an environment like that.I would much rather have players trust that every time I say something, I mean it, rather than being able to very occasionally model a situation where the players make a decision based on incomplete information. Particularly since I can just say openly some variation of &quot;You aren't sure,&quot; and achieve essentially the same thing without any temptation to metagame and without any loss of trust.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9261463, member: 6790260"] I mean, does that not still give the players an active reason to distrust what you, their only source of information, tell them? It is one thing for a character to lie to them. Characters are (fictional) people who may be trustworthy or untrustworthy. It is quite another thing for the [I]narrator-adjudicator[/I] to lie to the players. Because if you believe the narrator-adjudicator will lie to you, how do you know the difference? You literally can't get information except from them. You can't preserve player trust in an environment like that. I would much rather have players trust that every time I say something, I mean it, rather than being able to [I]very occasionally[/I] model a situation where the players make a decision based on incomplete information. Particularly since I can just say openly some variation of "You aren't sure," and achieve essentially the same thing without any temptation to metagame and without any loss of trust. [/QUOTE]

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