[RPG] How would you behave while playing an adventure you were already a DM of

dnd-5ednd-adventurers-leaguemetagamingpublished-adventures

I would like to be a DM for my weekly group while also playing Adventurers League at my local store. I intend to run the same hardcover adventure for my group that the Adventurers League will be playing through.

How should you deal with playing parts of a scenario that you have already read and run as a DM? Is there any official AL guidance on this situation?

Best Answer

Roleplay

Let's assume you play an elf (which you are not in real life). And you play a ranger (which you are not in real life). The character can shoot a moving target without fail (which you cannot in real life). And has a bunch of friends that can cast spells and lay on hands (your friends in real life only eat pizza at astonishing speed).

Your character knows things you don't. You know things your character doesn't.

Now there is one new thing where you have to abstract your character from yourself the player. Your character has no knowledge of this adventure (while you do in real life). You already do this abstraction with all of the above, which is why your character is still shooting arrows instead of bullets. Just extend it to the knowledge you gained from DMing. Your character does not have it. He will fall for the trap. He will be surprised.

That's an important aspect that differentiates role play from board games. Your characters will do what is best for them in their situation with the knowledge they have. If it were a board game, there would be no character and no role play and all pieces on the board would move according to your players master plan and with the players knowledge.

So to summarize: let your characters act like they did not have that information. Because they don't.