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SinisterSlay posted...

Just wait until you try Treasure of the Rudras where your expected to make your own spells, and effectively cheat by saving the spells the end boss uses and use them on another campaign.
Some games just expect you to be smarter, be a better player.

Some do, but that's not necessarily what everyone wants, and generally I'd say that kind of obscurity (that is, core systems where the only way to figure out what works is through either extensive trial and error or by referencing outside resources) is something games should avoid. Many good games don't avoid that kind of obscurity, and make up for it either with extensive official wikis, by being games where people expect to have to do a bunch of metagaming to get anywhere, or just by being good enough in other regards that people don't mind the metagaming, but in general I would still say that mechanical transparency is better.