Metagaming & Powergaming

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Powergaming

Powergaming is defined as unrealistic and overpowered behaviour and actions. This can translate into roleplay as forcing actions onto other characters without giving them a chance to retaliate or respond, or describing and designing your own character with unrealistic and overpowered physical features (height / muscles), intelligence, strength, or magic.


E.g.,

  • If the player Ailan113 emoted, while playing a frail elderly character: "John ran along the edge of the rooftop, jumping across the opening to the alleyway below to reach the roof of the adjacent building." Ailan113 would be Powergaming, because it is unrealistic and unfair for a frail elderly character to have such agility.


To avoid Powergaming, players are encouraged to alter their phrasing to suggest an 'attempt' at an attack, and by allowing the opposing player to emote in response to such an attempt.


E.g.,

  • Bob stabs Fred with his sword, puncturing his heart and killing him instantly. ❌
  • Bob attempts to stab Fred with his sword, aiming for his upper torso towards his heart. ✔



A good example of Powergaming.
An example of a fair action emote.


Metagaming

Metagaming is defined as using information obtained out of character in roleplay. If you find out information as a player, through OOC discussions either on the server or through social media, you may not use this information in roleplay until your character learns about it themselves in a natural way. Becoming suspicious of other characters or situations without any reason to is also a form of metagaming.


E.g.,

  • If the player Ailan113 read over the Necromancy wiki page, and then proceeded to have his character, John, suddenly become totally aware of what Necromancy was, the player Ailan113 would be Metagaming.
  • If the player Ailan113 was informed via a voice chat with his friend that a certain character, who we'll call Kyle, was planning on betraying Ailan113's character, and then Ailan113 preemptively attacked Kyle so that he couldn't betray him, Ailan113 would be Metagaming.


A good example of Metagaming.