TheBombCt

By TheBombCt

• August 25, 2023
Rules: Yes
Referral: Through a Friend
Discord: thebombct
How do you avoid powergaming in roleplay?: Giving a character an unfair advantage by powergaming ruins the experience for everyone involved and I actively try to avoid it. I avoid powergaming in roleplay by setting a hard-limit on what my character can do, these limits normally being set very low starting off. By this I mean that I set boundaries on what I know is possible for my character at the time of creation and that gets adjusted throughout play. Through this it leads to a more linear path to strength and requires constant fair and enjoyable rp for it to increase, while never getting too high.
How does metagaming disrupt fair roleplay?: Metagaming disrupts fair roleplay in a multitude of ways. The major way is that it, to simply put it, ruins the experience for everyone. By sharing/acting on information that should be unknown, it could potentially ruin surprises or big moments that could have been building up for a long time. This would obviously upset anyone involved, especially if they were the ones building up the story. Another way it disrupts fair roleplay is that it gives a clear advantage the the metagaming character because they have information they should not be privy to. This advantage would be disruptive because there'd be a character, one with no way to know something, be able to act accordingly without them actually knowing it.
Status: Accepted