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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6809005" data-attributes="member: 22424">Yeah, that's maybe not the best example.But consider a stronger example: the PCs find a book in their travels at which point Brian declares, without any further detail, that they burn the book (as in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jbfIRh8kP8" target="_blank">Knights of the Dinner Table</a>). He doesn't know anything about this book, and burning a book found is hardly a normal response, but he knows that he's playing a game, and in a game any found book is obviously a <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TomeOfEldritchLore" target="_blank">Tome of Eldritch Lore</a> (warning: link to TVtropes), so it gets burnt.That's fair. But who decides when that &quot;most monsters&quot; translates to &quot;this particular monster&quot;?Agreed. I'm a big fan of the concept of <a href="http://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/17231/roleplaying-games/dissociated-mechanics-a-brief-primer" target="_blank">associated mechanics</a>, where so far as it is possible the mechanics eliminate metagaming... because what you're doing is simply &quot;gaming&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6809005, member: 22424"] Yeah, that's maybe not the best example. But consider a stronger example: the PCs find a book in their travels at which point Brian declares, without any further detail, that they burn the book (as in [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jbfIRh8kP8"]Knights of the Dinner Table[/URL]). He doesn't know anything about this book, and burning a book found is hardly a normal response, but he knows that he's playing a game, and in a game any found book is obviously a [URL="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TomeOfEldritchLore"]Tome of Eldritch Lore[/URL] (warning: link to TVtropes), so it gets burnt. That's fair. But who decides when that "most monsters" translates to "this particular monster"? Agreed. I'm a big fan of the concept of [URL="http://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/17231/roleplaying-games/dissociated-mechanics-a-brief-primer"]associated mechanics[/URL], where so far as it is possible the mechanics eliminate metagaming... because what you're doing is simply "gaming". [/QUOTE]

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