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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JiffyPopTart" data-source="post: 8085857" data-attributes="member: 4881">I see later you mentioned this was covered in another thread, however I didn't follow that one to know the conversation.The most common time I see players ask "Does my character know X" is usually for a metagame purpose.  Not in a bad way, but in a way that seeks permission to act on player knowledge in a certain situation.For example...if you ran a campaign in which all the player characters were members of a small fishing village who weren't much aware of the world at large and our characters ran across a troll.  I highly doubt any sort of preestablished backstory mentioned interaction with trolls, however that doesn't preclude the idea that my character would know what a troll was and that you might want to burn it.  As a player, I don't want my metagaming knowledge to seep into my character so usually I can self-censor, however there might be some times where things could go either way and "Does my character know X" seeks to get a fair GM ruling on the issue.Another reasonable example would be if I were playing a druid and I wanted to assume an animal form for an animal I hadn't firmly established that I had encountered or not in my past.  Have all elven druids from the forestlands seen a Giant Constrictor Snake or a Polar Bear?  Is it my call as a player what my druid has seen?  Is it your call as the GM as to what you allow?</blockquote>