Who Is Ellen - 123 - HD
Added 2023-04-29 03:07:03 +0000 UTCOF COURSE!
Commentary
No one expects Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs!
Whether Ellen should be announcing this to the party is debatable, but I think it would be awkward keeping something like this limited to Nanase the player. The rest of the party would be aware she knew something in any case just by virtue of Ellen having to pass a note or something.
I think the implied mutual agreement of "my character isn't aware of everything I am, and I will roleplay as such" should fairly cover this.
Though I'm sure I'll hear opinions to the contrary if any readers have them, which will be interesting if it happens.
Comments
This. It really depends on the group. When your players are cooperative or at least able to compartmentalize and dedicated to role play, information sharing is a needless hassle. I have not been so lucky. I mean, the people I'd play with now, if I were to play, would not need any information hiding. But then, the people I'm playing with now, if I were to play, have better options for the GM.
Some Ed
2023-04-30 04:22:56 +0000 UTCBOO
Michael Chui
2023-04-30 00:42:08 +0000 UTCThe party have a full Set of problems in front of them...
John Trauger
2023-04-29 18:37:03 +0000 UTCSo Linkara was right, the culprit was the source of all evil, ANCIENT EGYPT! (Imperial March starts playing)
A Red Mage Named Blue
2023-04-29 15:11:33 +0000 UTCOff-panel: George's head quietly exploding. :)
M.
2023-04-29 14:01:10 +0000 UTCYup, as Jason said. In my gaming group, we mostly assume that the characters are sharing information so it doesn't matter that only one person got the insight. With that said, we have had a few fun scenarios where someone had some important secret information as part of their character's origin and motives. And there is very occasionally some secret information, in special cases where the secret adds to the fun. I think the last time I got a bit, my character immediately shared it, but it was a thing that came with a reason that they might not be trusting the other characters and might want to keep it secret.
Brooks Moses
2023-04-29 08:14:55 +0000 UTCSome GMs might still do the former, but none of mine have in many years.
Matoyak
2023-04-29 05:33:44 +0000 UTCYes and no. Hidden knowledge is still a thing, but it's usually very character specific. In other words, a DM might covertly let a player know that their character recognizes something for reasons the other characters don't know about... but if one player rolled a Nat 20 insight check and everyone else rolled a Nat 1, DM isn't usually going to tell only the Nat 20 guy. They'll say it out loud and the expectation for the rest of the players is that they won't metagame and operate as if they know anything.
AstroChaos
2023-04-29 05:32:50 +0000 UTCYeah maybe just weird timing? Shows fine now though!
AstroChaos
2023-04-29 05:28:00 +0000 UTCHaving secrets is great ... if you want to end up with party members killing each other. (Not a fan.)
Windscion
2023-04-29 05:16:01 +0000 UTCNanase: Those are ancient Egyptian heiroglyphs. I can't read them. Everyone else's character: What's Egyptian?
Foradain
2023-04-29 04:27:28 +0000 UTCAt least we have confirmation that Nanase's character comes from the "Real World", or at least one that shares some history with it.
Foradain
2023-04-29 04:26:29 +0000 UTCI still do hidden text and most GM I know do to but I know it is not always popular. I am also someone who likes, both as a GM and a player, that there may be in-group conflicts or at least that everyone cannot be 100% trustful of anyone else, with hidden agenda and the like. So I totally admit it is a style of play that may not be the best for other groups.
Audrey Azura
2023-04-29 03:53:37 +0000 UTCThe most recent times a GM passed me Secret Knowledge, it came as a text on my magic phone. But that was before all of our characters had met...
Foradain
2023-04-29 03:26:33 +0000 UTCI did change the image twice due to fixing mistakes, but I'm surprised that would have that effect
Dan Shive
2023-04-29 03:19:15 +0000 UTCAt first I legitimately thought it was ancient EGGyptian hieroglyphs! ๐
John Chidester
2023-04-29 03:18:54 +0000 UTCGranted, I haven't been in any mainstream DnD games in over a decade and a half. It's been Powered by the Apocalypse, Blades in the Dark, or various other indies. So the general view is that all the players are making a story with each other as authors where the actions are determined in part by random dice.
Matoyak
2023-04-29 03:16:23 +0000 UTCMost of the games I've been in lately, and most GMs I've talked to, no longer do hidden information. Everything's always available to everyone, and the players are just expected to play the characters off of the knowledge the characters have, not what the players have
Matoyak
2023-04-29 03:14:05 +0000 UTCWoo, speedy :)
Matoyak
2023-04-29 03:12:08 +0000 UTCLooks like he fixed it
Casey
2023-04-29 03:11:28 +0000 UTCThere is no image for me, even after restarting the app ๐ค
AstroChaos
2023-04-29 03:10:17 +0000 UTCTo pull a recurring bit from Linkara: "ANCIENT EGYPT!" *Imperial March plays with a picture of the Pyramids of Giza*
Seadog Driftwood (Casey)
2023-04-29 03:09:40 +0000 UTCThatโs what I was going to ask.
Taigan
2023-04-29 03:09:14 +0000 UTC...I think those first two balloons might be swapped?
Michael Brewer
2023-04-29 03:09:02 +0000 UTCAre the speech bubble tails reversed in panel one?
Matoyak
2023-04-29 03:08:54 +0000 UTC
