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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 3477283" data-attributes="member: 30001">I'm trying to be specific about the options that the DM has when presenting information to the players, and how those options can affect the mood of the players.  Again, I don't think you're a dopey DM, so I'll try to pay more attention to how I say things.There's nothing that I can see that explains how observing the actions of a Kyton would determine what kind of chains he has.  I would imagine that the actions of a Kyton would be pretty mysterious, and if he chooses not the Sunder on a particular round, or he rolls and fails, what information does that really provide?"A bunch of powers whose effect looks like a Kyton's powers" is still not conclusive evidence of anything.  There's no way I have of determining whether or not a creature has +2 chains based on the special powers that it uses.Doesn't matter.  I could encounter 100 orcs in the past in your campaign, doesn't mean that the 101st orc isn't a 10th level ranger with a +2 spiked chain, even if you tell me that it's unlikely that any NPC will ever have a magic item, I don't know for certain until you tell me that that particular one doesn't have a magic item.In general, you were DMing properly because you ran a game in which your players were amused, shocked, involved, whatever.  I've said repeatedly that I think you were more successful than you realized.</blockquote>