Metagaming & Powergaming

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Powergaming

Powergaming is the carrying out of unrealistic, unfair, or godly actions. This includes forcing emotes on other characters, whether inside or outside of combat, and performing unrealistic physical or mental feats.

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.
• If the player Ailan113 read over the Fire Evocation wiki page, and then proceeded to have his character, John, suddenly become able to use Fire Evocation, the player Ailan113 would be Metagaming.

A good example of Powergaming.

An example of a fair action emote.

Metagaming

Metagaming, often referred to simply as 'Meta', is the use of information acquired out-of-character, in-character information.

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.