06-26-2015, 06:22 AM | #41 | |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Montréal, Québec
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Re: GM Secrecy and Metagaming
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Of course there are non-natural creatures which don't follow the normal rules, but said ranger lives in a world full of non-natiral creatures, and surely these give clues as well, just clues that we cannot fathom. GMs can always be as secretive as they want, but -- especially with PCs possessing the right skillset -- there is no reason that they need to. |
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06-26-2015, 09:38 AM | #42 | |
Join Date: May 2015
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Re: GM Secrecy and Metagaming
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Even if I did say a Speed number to a player, it'd be an estimate. Knowing the actual Speed score of an animal by looking at it is not realistic, as real animals don't of a species don't all have the same Speed, just as humans don't, nor do they all always run at the same speed all the time, and if you're outdoors, ground varies too and affects Speed, etc. Even if a master anatomist examined me nude when I was a teen, he'd just see that I was almost the tallest kid in my class and had strong legs, but was not very fit - there's no way he could tell I could out-sprint my entire class and the track team by about 20% unless he saw me do it. Even if you've memorized the max speeds of Gazelles and Impalas, that doesn't mean you know the max speed of that gazelle right there, nor how fast it is going to run when spooked this time, and if I tell you the Speed score, then you're liable to think of it in terms of how many hexes it can move in one turn on the game map, and not relating to what your character's actual thoughts and experience would be. Last edited by Skarg; 06-26-2015 at 09:57 AM. |
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