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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8266676" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't think this is true. In the history of the world there have been people who took risks - even life-threatening ones - without planning.Those people also exist in literature and film. In D&D terms, two famous one's are REH's Conan and JRRT's Bilbo Baggins.But this means that the player can never learn anything new about his/her PC's past. Which entails that the character is an amnesiac. Which seems wrong, and is not how any RPG I've ever played works.I don't understand why the player not knowing what the character knows suddenly becomes OK just because it is the GM who makes up the new bit of knowledge and tells the player about it, rather than the player doing that him-/herself.</blockquote>