Thread:Arathorstories/@comment-3429794-20140925151053/@comment-5722194-20140925154922

I think what you're asking is about the concept of meta-gaming.

In-character, our characters only know what they find out using in-character means. Going to a library to study, learning information from other characters, etc. If a piece of information is kept secret by characters, only those characters would know about it unless it was stolen, forced from them, etc.

Meta-gaming is using information that you learned out-of-character in RP. For example, if you look on someone's page and see that they are secretly a cultist, you can't go up to them with your character and call them out for being a cultist when your character wasn't told or didn't find out on their own.