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Re: ROLE-PLAY: Powergaming and Metagaming

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HorizontalSphere is not online. HorizontalSphere
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05 Mar 2014 08:37 PM
Watching out for powergaming in metagaming is essential for all forum role-players to have a fun experience in this forum subsections. Though, for you to avoid the evil that manifests itself as 'powergamers' and 'metagamers', you may need to know the definition.

Powergaming - Often referred to as godmodding, to powergame is to deprive another person's right to act against your actions; rendering them helpless against your superpowers that are outside the line of reasoning.

Ex: Hori slits the man's throat
or
Hori holds his hands out, inhaling and exhaling twice before blasting his opponent with a huge power beam that rendered Alt helpless against him.

As you can see, this left no time for the other person to react. You blatantly deprived them of the right to fight back.
DIDN'T UNDERSTAND: Powergaming - being too OP.

Metagaming - To make use of knowledge that the player knows, but the character is unaware.

Ex: Hori: (Let's assassinate the king)
Alt: My king! The assassins plan on killing thee! Quickly, we must get to thy chopper!

As you can see, Alt used Hori's OOC (out-of-character) information IC'ly (in-character'ly)to prevent the assassination of the king. That is a no-no.
DIDN'T UNDERSTAND: Using information that you know, but the character you play doesn't know.
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HorizontalSphere is not online. HorizontalSphere
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05 Mar 2014 08:42 PM
bawhmp
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evilboo10 is not online. evilboo10
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05 Mar 2014 08:44 PM
You should tell this to a certain yellow friend of mine on Cartoon Roleplay.
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vamking12 is not online. vamking12
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05 Mar 2014 08:44 PM
You a alt?
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HorizontalSphere is not online. HorizontalSphere
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05 Mar 2014 10:04 PM
Nup.
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vamking12 is not online. vamking12
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05 Mar 2014 10:06 PM
Well welcome to roleplay!

You look like you will be something special.
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05 Mar 2014 10:07 PM
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SIacktivist is not online. SIacktivist
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05 Mar 2014 10:33 PM
*clapping*

So wait, you're new to RP? Really? But... But this is... What? How?

I'm so confused...
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HorizontalSphere is not online. HorizontalSphere
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06 Mar 2014 01:51 PM
I was never new to roleplay.
Wat?
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SIacktivist is not online. SIacktivist
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06 Mar 2014 02:28 PM
Oh. OK. But still, thanks for explaining metagaming to me.
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hugeboo322 is not online. hugeboo322
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06 Mar 2014 02:45 PM
This is pretty good
I've had my run of power-gamers before
hated it
informed the thread admin
got em kicked out of the thread
Wifi and I once kicked a power-gamer and meta gamer out of a thread we had
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HisseyLeSnake is not online. HisseyLeSnake
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06 Mar 2014 02:47 PM
Metagaming stands for;

Most Efficient Tactic Available blah blah blah

ʏᴀ ᴍᴏғᴏ
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SIacktivist is not online. SIacktivist
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07 Mar 2014 12:06 AM
Loving your siggy.
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07 Mar 2014 06:03 AM
hissey
tell me how you get such magnificent writing
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HisseyLeSnake is not online. HisseyLeSnake
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07 Mar 2014 11:39 AM
courtesy of my annoying, yet imaginative brother,


and also my lack of studying English literature; which makes sense because I'm revising as I type.

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Ultraelite is not online. Ultraelite
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07 Mar 2014 11:40 AM
then all of a sudden the door is blown off and thousands of soldiers rush in and beat us all to death claiming they're C&Gers.
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HorizontalSphere is not online. HorizontalSphere
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07 Mar 2014 09:57 PM
no.
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HorizontalSphere is not online. HorizontalSphere
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07 Mar 2014 10:16 PM
bawmhp
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HorizontalSphere is not online. HorizontalSphere
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09 Mar 2014 11:51 PM
hi
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HorizontalSphere is not online. HorizontalSphere
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13 Mar 2014 03:40 PM
herm bump
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13 Mar 2014 04:15 PM
We must keep this thread alive. It is vital for our survival! I don't know how, but just trust me on this one.
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vamking12 is not online. vamking12
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13 Mar 2014 04:36 PM
Uh horizon why don't you post?
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SIacktivist is not online. SIacktivist
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15 Mar 2014 09:37 PM
Post! Post! Don't let Thread die, post!
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HorizontalSphere is not online. HorizontalSphere
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16 Mar 2014 01:25 AM
Kill the thread?
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cideadfsbaman is not online. cideadfsbaman
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16 Mar 2014 01:54 AM
Just my take at fixing the examples.
Powergaming-
- Hori attempts to slit the man's throat
or
- Hori holds his hands out, inhaling and exhaling twice before blasting his opponent with a huge power beam, hopefully rendering Alt helpless against him.

I attempted to give the other person the right to fight back, by implying that the character only "attempted" to attack them. Although, the second one is still OP in some RPs.

Metagaming -
Hori: (Let's assassinate the king)
Alt: It's a nice day again... but we always need to think that there is assassins waiting to kill my king.

I attempted to not directly imply that there is a assassin, but be on the alert for assassins 24/7 even if there is actually none.
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