Episode 75 – Liz returns!

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   Jesse

   December 18, 2012 at 6:22 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment

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   I have had this issue of meta-gaming monsters come up occasionally, though luckily it has almost never become an issue during the session. When I start an encounter, I very rarely just come out and say what the creature is – unless it’s something that the characters have run into previously or would know thanks to their background – and rather leave it up to a description of what they’re looking at. The players sometimes will get wide-eyed at a particular description when they think they know what I’m describing, however I’m usually quick to cut in with “Do you want to roll a knowledge nature check?” and they’ll either commence with the rolling, or confess that the creature is something that their character would never have seen or heard of before.

   I have run into an issue more recently where we added a new player to the group (The Dragon Fisters at thedragonfisters.blogspot.com (plug)) who hasn’t played D&D since 2nd edition, so there have been many monster changes since then. For instance, they recently ran into an ogre and while the character had seen ogres before, the player himself had misinformation on the Pathfinder version of the ogre. Therefore, when he wanted to light torches to trigger the ogre’s light sensitivity, I had to stop him from wasting valuable resources.