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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 3655164" data-attributes="member: 2673">I like good metagaming, and I like games that mechanically reward players for doing it.  Examples are Buffy's Drama Points, which give you a very useful resource for making everyone laugh, and Exalted's Stunts, which give you a bonus on your roll and your magic points back whenever you describe your action in a cool manner.  Basically, you are rewarded for making the game more enjoyable for everyone else.Metagaming is certainly a factor, one of the biggest in what makes for a good player IMO.  Nothing makes me want to stab a player in the face like having them intentionally keep vital information from the other players because 'my character wouldn't do it'.  In fact, I think the entire phrase "That's what my character would do!" is just an excuse for being a jerk.  Not the character, the player.  I have the same opinion of the phrase "I'm just playing my alignment!"It can work, adversarial characters, so long as the players are on the same page.  There was one group where I had a LG cleric and another guy had a LE assassin.  The two characters HATED each other with a fiery passion and were constantly trying to maneuver against each other in the local politics.  But at the same time, we worked well together justifying it as we both had to protect the town - me because it was my duty, him because it was his source of influence and power.  In "reality" they probably would have turned on each other and abandoned the group, but it was far more fun to snipe at each other and work against each other - just not too much.  One thing to try to sabotage the other guy's chances for a councilman nomination, quite another to steal magic items or cause them to get hurt.  We always, in character and out, put the good of the group over the interpersonal conflict.</blockquote>

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