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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7282714" data-attributes="member: 6775031"><p>Role-playing is the act of making decisions from the perspective of the character, based on who they are and what they understand of the world. You imagine yourself to be the character, evaluate the situation at hand, and imagine what the character would do in that situation. It is necessarily done in the first-person, because that's how the human brain works. (Whether you narrate the outcome of that process to the table in the first-person or the third-person is irrelevant to the process itself.)</p><p></p><p>Role-playing is contrasted with meta-gaming, which is (colloquially speaking) the act of making decisions from the perspective of the player at the table. The two actions are mutually exclusive. If you make decisions about how a character acts, based on information that the character does not have (such as the priorities of the player at the table), then you are a despicable meta-gamer who deserves to be bodily ejected from the table with extreme prejudice. There is no room within the hobby for meta-gamers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 7282714, member: 6775031"] Role-playing is the act of making decisions from the perspective of the character, based on who they are and what they understand of the world. You imagine yourself to be the character, evaluate the situation at hand, and imagine what the character would do in that situation. It is necessarily done in the first-person, because that's how the human brain works. (Whether you narrate the outcome of that process to the table in the first-person or the third-person is irrelevant to the process itself.) Role-playing is contrasted with meta-gaming, which is (colloquially speaking) the act of making decisions from the perspective of the player at the table. The two actions are mutually exclusive. If you make decisions about how a character acts, based on information that the character does not have (such as the priorities of the player at the table), then you are a despicable meta-gamer who deserves to be bodily ejected from the table with extreme prejudice. There is no room within the hobby for meta-gamers. [/QUOTE]
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