I'm confused. Do you normally try to keep your players from talking and metagaming between sessions?
I don't stop them, I even created them a channel for it to do so. But doing it in a near-instant moment, where the character wouldn'T have time to do it, is in bad tastes for us ingame. Basically, if it's impossible to do it, then it's normally not something we do, and I don't need to ban it myself my players do it themselves.
Out of game, they can do as they please I don't mind. I even enjoy it.
Thanks for the clarification -- that makes more sense. It's interesting that your players police themselves on that. You must have a very respectful group!
Were all on the same page as : if your pc doesnt know something, he doesnt know it.
Of course, trying to make him discover it is fair game if its believablr
My players chat and metagame between every session. I don't mind so long as they run any significant shenanigans by me to see if it would work. As in not too game breaking. I encourage it as it makes them feel part of creating the story. Ultimately the dice will tell the tale.
Like the OP, my players are pretty strict with meta information.
I had three parties step into the same trap and die and I was like "guys, what's going on!" and they were like "our new chars don't know what our old chars knew!"
I was satisfied with that. In the end made PCs quick-witted enough to deal with the situation without meta knowledge.
I've said they are free to meta as much and as little as they want, it's a lever they're completely on their own for, I don't mind it at all but to the extent that it takes away from their experience, they don't do it. I have two exceptions to this:
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