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<blockquote data-quote="Nisarg" data-source="post: 1673770" data-attributes="member: 19893">A &quot;Munchkin&quot; is the guy who can kill the dragon because he's got the perfect stats for his class, picked each of his 12 classes/prestige classes not because the combination makes any roleplaying sense but because he wants to get each of the specific class abilities at just the right moment and wants to maximize his quantity of skill points and feats. He's also probably badgered the DM into having at least a +5 sword of dragon-slaying.He isn't technically cheating, he's just designed everything to be about his stats and being the best killer possible.The &quot;metagamer&quot; is the guy who can kill the dragon because the PLAYER knows this dragon has a fatal vulnerability to blue cheese, even though the CHARACTER has no way of possibly knowing this (the player happened to read the DM's notes, or overheard the DM mentioning it to another character when his own character wasn't there).&nbsp; If he's a very clever metagamer then he'll try to justify his cheating by some absurd rationale (&quot;well I just felt like buying some blue cheese earlier, and I figure there's nothing to lose in smearing some of it on my sword, even though I've never done that before and my character had expressed open hatred of blue cheese in the past&quot;).Hope this clears things up.Nisarg</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nisarg, post: 1673770, member: 19893"] A "Munchkin" is the guy who can kill the dragon because he's got the perfect stats for his class, picked each of his 12 classes/prestige classes not because the combination makes any roleplaying sense but because he wants to get each of the specific class abilities at just the right moment and wants to maximize his quantity of skill points and feats. He's also probably badgered the DM into having at least a +5 sword of dragon-slaying. He isn't technically cheating, he's just designed everything to be about his stats and being the best killer possible. The "metagamer" is the guy who can kill the dragon because the PLAYER knows this dragon has a fatal vulnerability to blue cheese, even though the CHARACTER has no way of possibly knowing this (the player happened to read the DM's notes, or overheard the DM mentioning it to another character when his own character wasn't there). If he's a very clever metagamer then he'll try to justify his cheating by some absurd rationale ("well I just felt like buying some blue cheese earlier, and I figure there's nothing to lose in smearing some of it on my sword, even though I've never done that before and my character had expressed open hatred of blue cheese in the past"). Hope this clears things up. Nisarg [/QUOTE]

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