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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6755335" data-attributes="member: 22424">Fair enough. I, in turn, apologise for being overly defensive.Okay, I have another example where metagaming most definitely did happen. I'm slightly reluctant to tell this story, since I don't come out of it terribly well... but then, it was half-a-lifetime ago and I'm practically a different person by now. So...The year was 1996, and the game was Vampire. These were the glorious days when I could play for four hours on a Tuesday evening, every Tuesday evening. Our group was my Ventrue, a Malkavian, and a Caitiff. If you're not familiar with Vampire, the important thing is that the Malkavian had various supernatural senses, including aura-reading, that my character did not.So, we found ourselves needing to break in to... somewhere. A warehouse, or offices I think. Anyway, we cased the joint, and spotted the security guard. And the Malkavian was dispatched to read the guy's aura.The player picked up the dice... and she rolled a BOTCH! At which point the GM gave the player appropriately-false information. I forget what it was, exactly, but it was basically that the guard was seriously badass - a Lupine, or a Methuselah, or some such.At which point I decided that my character "just happened" to think that this one time she'd managed to get it wrong. Because of course the GM wouldn't place that guard there...Which was as textbook an example of metagaming as you can get. I had "just happened" to come to that conclusion solely because I knew the Malkavian had botched and the result was therefore false.And yes, I was (quite rightly) called on it. I didn't do it again.</blockquote>

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