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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 882716" data-attributes="member: 2067">Yeah, metagaming is using the knowledge that you are playing a game to help you in the game. Which can include OOC knowledge being used IC.The monster thing I can only say is (a) "Know what your Players Know", so that you can twist what they expect, and (b) "This is My Campaign!", so that if trolls in your campaign are big and ugly and turn into stone in daylight instead of being big and green and regenerative, that's fine, and players shouldn't expect their mosnter knowledge to come in handy.It's not automatically bad, or an insult. EVERYONE metagames...most DM's are the worst of the bunch ("I know Billy the Fighter has a low Will save...let's put an enchantress HERE!"), but to some extent it's encouraged in DMing. When a player metagames, it can be a sort of barrier-breaking experience, taking people out of the world of the game. It's not even (usually) so bad. But it's one of those things (kinda like OOC talk in general) that should be curbed a bit, but not forbidden.</blockquote>