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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8570370" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>I disagree, although this is trotted out often.&nbsp; Metagaming is, definitionally, thinking of the game as a game and making decisions based on that framework.&nbsp; It's been blurred into the roleplaying aspect as representing in-character thinking in ways not justifiable to the GM (maybe the other players, but primarily the GM) as matching what the GM thinks your character should think.&nbsp; This is somewhat adjacent to metagaming but isn't quite.&nbsp; Still, close enough.&nbsp; However, outright flaunting of expected norms of behavior isn't really metagaming, even though it happens outside the game and has aspects in it's application that could be metagaming.&nbsp; It's just being a jerk.&nbsp; When we put being a jerk on the spectrum of metagaming, then we're effectively saying that there's a little bit of that end of the spectrum the bleeds through the rest -- that metagaming is at least associated with being a jerk and cheating and whathaveyou.&nbsp; I find that this poisons discussion.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8570370, member: 16814"] I disagree, although this is trotted out often. Metagaming is, definitionally, thinking of the game as a game and making decisions based on that framework. It's been blurred into the roleplaying aspect as representing in-character thinking in ways not justifiable to the GM (maybe the other players, but primarily the GM) as matching what the GM thinks your character should think. This is somewhat adjacent to metagaming but isn't quite. Still, close enough. However, outright flaunting of expected norms of behavior isn't really metagaming, even though it happens outside the game and has aspects in it's application that could be metagaming. It's just being a jerk. When we put being a jerk on the spectrum of metagaming, then we're effectively saying that there's a little bit of that end of the spectrum the bleeds through the rest -- that metagaming is at least associated with being a jerk and cheating and whathaveyou. I find that this poisons discussion. [/QUOTE]

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