Quote Originally Posted by gbaji View Post
This is a bit of supposition on my part, but
Yes that's really massive supposition on your part. People in my part of the woods actually talk to each other like normal folk. At times even I, when I'm GMing, will make suggestions because its something I think the characters would know and consider.

As I said, and I repeat it here again; in my experience this is fairly common and transcends GMs, systems, and campaigns. Its not the real live people at the table hiding information from each other. Its them being weird about talking to NPCs like they're plot devices or something.