Having to actively pretend you don't know something to prevent metagaming. (e.g. even though you've been playing for years and know the abilities and resistances of the monster you're fighting, your 1st level character wouldn't know)
And the inverse: getting accused of metagaming over things that someone would reasonably expect a person who lived in that universe to know, like that you need to use fire to kill trolls.
but is it common knowledge really? The internet is rife with examples of people displaying a distinct ignorance of things most would consider not just common knowledge but sense as well. So... An INT check is not out of line for something like that.
It was a 3.5 game where I was playing a dwarven ranger who had Giants as their favored enemy and was native to an area of Faerun where trolls were common. The GM knew all of this and approved of it before the game. But I was called a metagamer for saying in character "it's a troll!" when the GM described a troll ambushing the party.
The GM basically wanted everyone in the party to act like they were poofed into existence right before the game began and had no knowledge or experience that someone who had actually grown up in such a world would logically have.
Having to actively pretend you don't know something to prevent metagaming. (e.g. even though you've been playing for years and know the abilities and resistances of the monster you're fighting, your 1st level character wouldn't know)
And the inverse: getting accused of metagaming over things that someone would reasonably expect a person who lived in that universe to know, like that you need to use fire to kill trolls.
but is it common knowledge really? The internet is rife with examples of people displaying a distinct ignorance of things most would consider not just common knowledge but sense as well. So... An INT check is not out of line for something like that.
It was a 3.5 game where I was playing a dwarven ranger who had Giants as their favored enemy and was native to an area of Faerun where trolls were common. The GM knew all of this and approved of it before the game. But I was called a metagamer for saying in character "it's a troll!" when the GM described a troll ambushing the party.
The GM basically wanted everyone in the party to act like they were poofed into existence right before the game began and had no knowledge or experience that someone who had actually grown up in such a world would logically have.
ok in that instance the DM was a dipstick.
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It was a 3.5 game where I was playing a dwarven ranger who had Giants as their favored enemy and was native to an area of Faerun where trolls were common. The GM knew all of this and approved of it before the game. But I was called a metagamer for saying in character "it's a troll!" when the GM described a troll ambushing the party.
The GM basically wanted everyone in the party to act like they were poofed into existence right before the game began and had no knowledge or experience that someone who had actually grown up in such a world would logically have.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
When the player sitting next to me is a IRL Wight, and claps me on the back for rolling a natural 20.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
ok in that instance the DM was a dipstick.