spiderria

By spiderria

• February 1
Rules: Yes
Referral: topg.org
Discord: schizophria
In your own words, what is powergaming, and why should it be avoided in roleplay?: I avoid powergaming by only controlling my own character, i let other players choose their own reactions to my actions. Other ways i avoid it are by keeping my character realistically strong (i.e if my character is a noble female with little to no fighting skills she would not win a fight or be able to lift semi heavy objects). I make sure my character has weaknesses so they are not good at everything. An additional thing i do when roleplaying is i let my character fail tasks to open more opportunities and make it seem more realistic.
In your own words, what is metagaming, and why should it be avoided in roleplay?: Metagaming puts your character at an unfair advantage because it lets them know things that they wouldn’t normally know in the game. For example, let’s say you saw in chat that the enemy was hiding their guns in a certain room and you wouldn’t normally know that in the game, but you go ahead and act on that knowledge anyway, that’s not really fair to the other players. It also isn’t as fun to roleplay when the actions of the other players are pointless and the story isn’t flowing naturally.
Status: Accepted