Metaplaying

by Tetra

Back to Common Grounds.

Eventru2011-05-27 11:48:30
Metagaming is when your character takes OOC information in-game. In example, Xenthos posts on the forums, "Man, I love this new area!" and then suddenly 40-50 people start teleporting to him without warning.

Completing quests that conflict with your ideology is not metagaming - however, if your org looks the other way and/or does nothing about it, then they're only encouraging that poor behavior.

It's pretty common for someone to say, "If a Palestinian citizen goes and blows themselves up on a populated Tel Aviv street corner, Israel is going to be pissed at Palestine. Maybe Palestine should try to stop this from happening." You're welcome to accuse 99.99999% of the U.N. of 'metagaming,' however I think your accusations are going to fall kind of short.

Nepotism is not 'metagaming' - if Kelly strongly supports her nephew for Ascendance, instead of Inagin, this is nepotism, not metagaming. If Kelly strongly supports Kelly's player's second cousin who Kelly never interacts with and demands they be raised (because said second-cousin bought them a pretty sick pair of knickers for their bithday), that would be metagaming.

Get it? Metagaming is when OOC information and/or events influence IC actions in a serious manner.

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