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I have one player who's arachnophobic. That's easy. I actually almost included a giant spider in the first session. But excitingly, I got to change it to a young bulette! Two of my players don't like apes. Which does mean that the druid had to have a conversation about what is/isn't off limits for his wild shape. They did that on their own, after my one player was like "Oh yeah I forgot to mention, I can't do apes" and the druid was like "uhoh. How about monkeys?" and immediately contacted me to see what we can do about him wanting to be able to have one wild shape what can wield weapons. We decided on a giant panda. (I first went with a giant badger but he wanted panda instead lol)

I dont know what any of thos GMing is, but ill watch it regardless

One of the most fun characters I played was a rogue with average int, but abysmal wisdom. I decided to play him as someone able to make plans, but with no ability to assert risks whatsoever. It lead to a lot of plans that looked reasonable on cursory glance but with nigh impossible steps mixed in. And it made for some of the most ridiculous situations ever.

Those are the best characters sometimes

I once brought a dead player back to life by casting minor illusion. I just described how my hand glowed as I moved it over their body. Never specified the spell. Best meta game ever.

I always use math to figure out the ac and my dm says it is metagaming

shhh shh shhhhhh, take my dam money and give me this game.

I was pretty good at reading my GM by phishing. I'd think out loud about possible courses of action antagonists may take or what are conclusions of mysteries he introduced. We played online, but upon meeting and playing live he said we're not doing this again 😂

Meanwhile me as a GM. Randomly taking bits and pieces from multiple books and campaigns to make my diabolical realm of madness.

lol, yeah I have one in my party, the guy is a lore expert on D&D, will probably know common stat blocks from the top of his head but now he is playing a dumb character and I can throw stuff at them and he won't be able to say anything. Am i a bad DM for actually kinda enjoying his torture because of this?

Sometimes, we just want to surprise everybody else with a genius, maybe potentially deadly to everybody plan

I mean... I don't know if it's "trying to metagame" but my players know me well enough that plottwists are hard to make.. I introduce a character and they (especially my best friend) see through what I am doing 70% of the time. Luckily I can never predict what the hell they are going to do, so the game stays fresh :')

I feel you, I am playing a barbarian and did a lot of dumb shit that I would not have done with other characters I made over the years

I've only had it a couple of times and all of them have been people using what they know about me to guess a puzzle 😂

This is why I love Travis Willingham's Grog. He plays him so perfectly!

Yeah, no. Every DM is the first kind of DM. Who hasn't figured out how to circumvent a challenge only for, tada, the bad guys have prepared counter measures for this exact scenario. Because sure, this band of vampire goblins were always prepared for invisible eagles carrying gunpowder bombs and that totally wasn't something the DM invented while listening to the party planning.

Well there wasn’t a combat encounter in the next room but if you say that there will be

I LOVE ti play mind games with my players, keeps them on their toes and sweating. And everyone has a good laugh about how much I can mess with them. Trust me, my players legitimately love my games, and call me a good dm regularly. We just hoke around a bit. With psychological warfare.

That sounds like an interesting dungeon: A surrounding that listens to you and changes accordingly

And this is exactly why my stupid characters tend also to be chaos gremlins. Makes it so enjoyable doing the dumbest sh** for S&G.

A good Link backstory could be Link from the beginning of Wind Waker who is basically jist a normal guy who forces the gods to choose him.

Oh no, I'll do the stupid. I'll do it happily. My big conflict is coming up with a novel solution to a problem, and not having anyone in the party with the necessary intelligence or skills for me to recommend it out of character as something they came up with.

And my favourite class no longer exist

My first character was primarily a barbarian, with a score of 4 INT (later 6 because we needed a reason for him to be able to speak *COMMON*) And play his grandfather, who's been dubbed the smartest man in the campaign. It hurts to be the first, but it's still very fun.

In that case you should 'enforce' that player being drunk at the table... obvs not if there are alcoholics involved or without their consent, but it would make smart ppl dumb enough to make dumbass plays 'in character'

i dont play dnd, i have never played dnd, i dont plan on playing dnd, dnd is one lf my favourite games

I have a GM I've been playing with for years. And I always metagame him, knowing what he thinks and plots as a way to help our newer players. I see him setting up a plotline, and I'm always the first to bite the bait

To be fair if the players are doing the planing MID COMBAT and dont have some kind of mental/silent/secret way of comunication then YES my bad guys WILL react to it. If they are doing it out of combat then i will generelly avoid altering my encounters to fit their plans. (with the exeption of one of my BBEGs but he also was a super paranoid mage whos plans the party had crossed before... so he spied on them with divination spells and stuff like that.)

Had that happen at a table I was playing at. We had an idea and the DM had to think for a second. Immediately, one of her long time friends interjected saying: "She had to think about it, so it's not part of the plot she's prepared. So we should do something else."

I definitely do the last type sometimes. I know the DM wants us to go to a certain place even if my character wouldn’t.

Our dm doesn’t listen to what we have planned but already had the full events and what happens in them like time we killed a bunch of innocent mercenaries because we thought they bandits ect

I picked this game up over a year ago. I'm desperate to run it some time, but I'm not sure what my Pathfinder bros will think of it.

I thought he was talking about crypto for a sec

Well done and well played ❤

Imo, there’s no amount of metagaming that is good. I prefer being in the story and roleplaying, and metagaming immediately takes away from that. I do however think it’s fine that my group metas bc they enjoy combat more and that’s how they enjoy the game. We’ll call each other out on stuff like, “you weren’t in the room for that conversation” but as long as it doesn’t disrupt my experience it’s acceptable.

boy do I have some news for you

How dare other cultures exist in my personal world!!! (Joke)

It’s a fantasy game, just y’know… make up a reason as to why it’s there? Like everything else in the setting has been made up and loosely/not-so-loosely justified

Justify this to me without it sounding racist go:

If sushi doesn’t belong in dnd then why does pie?

Yes this is a good way to metagame Most are not this way though

Metagaming is almost always bad imho

Metagaming is always bad if it lowers the quality of the story. If you know about enemies, keep it to yourself. You aren't a supergenius researcher who knows every monster in the book. (And even if you are, that gives your dm an opportunity to give you incorrect information or throw out a monster at you that isn't in the book that'll surprise you.)

The ninja rogue:

Do people not realize how old of a dish sushi is?? 😭

I hope there is COFFEE!

Completely unrelated your beard and stache is phenomenal