Aldarc
Legend
Hello. My name is Aldarc, and I think "meta-gaming" is a non-problem. I think that there is a distinction between cheating and metagaming, and I think that some people here and TTRPG circles wrongly conflate the two. I don't really care about metagaming. I would personally prefer that TTRPG circles adopt a more similar usage as is found in other games and completive sports, where it's simply an awareness of optimal strategies, compositions, etc. for playing the game: i.e., "the meta."Part of the problem is one person's Skilled Play is another person's metagaming. For example, I (the player) knows acid and fire will work on trolls, brown mold exploded with fire, a bugbear isn't a fair fight for a 1st level PC, and never drink the fairy water. But does my PC? Is it skilled play to know the DM would put a secret door at the end of a "dead end" hall? Is it fine to use genre savviness, knowledge of the rules (including knowledge of monster stats) and Meta-game thinking to outwit the DM?