If I am in an adventure and come across skeletons and know everything about them from running a game before, am I metagaming for knowing?
Or is it only if I used a club, when I may usually use a rapier, to hit it and my character doesn't have religion knowledge and knows nothing of skeletons?
Now another scenario that happened recently. In a game a creature hits a PC and does damage and 2 stat drain. From playing for awhile I can tell that at 3rd level 2 stat drain seems a bit, odd. So I look up the monster we are fighting. I could also be wrong, so I don't interrupt game play until I can confirm something.
After looking it up, I see that, uh oh the GM has simply misread how the attack works and mixed in a special ability by mistake. I point this out and as usual the GM gets a bit upset that now I have interrupted the game to point something out that happened 2 dice rolls earlier. In this situation though, it was a big deal as he hit one player 4 times which would have been 8 stat drain.
Then I don't use any knowledge of the creature in game, I don't mention hey it has DR or you can do such and such to hurt it. I play my PC as if he didn't have a clue what this thing is, just kill it!
Would you consider that metagaming? Also would you have let the whole battle played out, checked the mosnter post battle and then have to retro the entire battle?
Some advice on this please.
~Binary
