sincerely_T

By sincerely_T

• December 26, 2025
Rules: Yes
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In your own words, what is powergaming, and why should it be avoided in roleplay?: Communication! Communication is always key, as well as some good old fashioned calming breaths. As someone whose roleplayed for ten years the only times I've seen metagaming be used is when a player wants to make their character cool and doesn't know how else to do it, doesn't feel comfortable anymore with a scene or as an accident. The first case is common I find with newer roleplayers, you want people to be interested, in your character and you by extension. You want to be strong and powerful and the best, here is where it's important to communicate talk to people ooc and find out what they are interested in, what are people looking for and then see where your character fits. The second is incredibly common, sometimes you start a scene and your character gets put into a situation you are no longer comfortable with. From there I always take a deep breath and evaluate the situation, does it make sense, what exactly am I feeling and why. I then approach my scene partner and work out a solution. Sometimes the solution is just carrying on, sometimes you just have to roll with the punches, but there's nothing wrong with taking a step back and talking ooc. And accidents can happen, sometimes players get overexcited and accidentally force an action onto a scene partner, just like everytime before, pause and talk.
In your own words, what is metagaming, and why should it be avoided in roleplay?: Metagaming much like powergaming can be incredibly disruptive, it provides your character with an advantage they would not normally have. Let's say for example you hear OOC that someone plans on killing another character, and then you ic go and warn that person. There is no reason your character would have that information and by revealing it you have thrown a wrench into multiple people's plans, because lets say that the person whose character was being assassinated knew in advance and in fact plotted it out with the assassin. By revealing that info in character they now have to react to it and it throws off the plans. I've seen metagaming be used to acquire wealth or status or avoid consequences and over and over again it is entirely unhelpful.
Status: Denied