Recent content by Crimson Longinus

No, sorry, this is just nonsense. The players have no information of the dragon attack, thus they cannot make choices for preparing to it, and the GM would ask "Will you do anything before the nightfall?" just the same if there was not a dragon attack. The players have opportunity to state...

Well, apparently unless you just sit silently eight hours at the table whilst the characters sleep that is railroading!

But would they have known that if it was fully played either? Players basically never have full knowledge, as their characters do not either. They are not losing agency. You asked them if there is something they want to do, and they used their agency to say "no." Now if your point is that...

I don't think I am, at least by how I understand railroading, and I think definition of railroading which includes any and all time skips must be sufficiently broad to be practically useless. Outside LARPs, no RPG runs in real time. Similarly like the GM cannot describe every physical detail...

I don't think so.

If the information does not always correspond, then it sometimes leads to metagaming. Simple as that. You internalise the persona of the character, then you do not really need to think of it. It is like method acting. Also just basic roleplaying. No, probably not in those exact words, but...

It is exceedingly unlikely that it always corresponds with plausible characters that are actually roleplayed as people living in the setting as distinct entities from the players. Then why were you so upset when I implied your method leads to it? Seems that you care. Besides, that was not the...

Is it also due racism that bluejays and robins are of different colours? Though if you merely mean colour-coded morality, then I definitely agree with you. But not about colour-coded capabilities.

Yours may have, mine will always remain dog people! Dragonborn are like that already, (which I'm not necessarily a fan of) but if one wants, I see no reason one could not do the same with kobolds. Now another question is why it is like that, and indeed why it is like this for dragonborn...

No, characters certainly can have knowledge of dragons and all sort of other things. We even have various knowledge skills in the game to roughly measure the amount of knowledge they have. It is just that this that this knowledge does not necessarily correspond with the knowledge the player has...

Certainly. But @Hriston said that remembering monster characteristic is a player skill, meaning that memorising them and then using that knowledge to their advantage is intended part of the play. I have no issue with troll vulnerabilities and dragon breath/colour associations etc just being...

No, but certainly this is perfectly possible. Characters are in wilderness, the hear rumours of Zirconium Dragon on the area. Characters discuss what to do, and what they know, none of them know what these sort of dragons do. Then the session ends, the player googles Zirconium Dragon and learns...

So the character is aware of what the player is aware of? So if between sessions the player reads monster manual and memorises monster information, the character magically becomes aware of it, even though they previously were not and have not had an opportunity to acquire such information?

They might. But your initial post said it was specifically about the player knowledge:

The latter is roleplaying and the former is not, which I find rather salient distinction whilst attempting to play a roleplaying game. I would expect the player attempt to make decisions as if their character would not know of the vulnerability. Now of course, fire bolt is a cantrip, and is...