(09-12-2015, 01:41 AM)Verad Wrote:(09-11-2015, 11:14 PM)Warren Castille Wrote:Wikipedia Wrote:Metagaming is any strategy, action or method used in a game which transcends a prescribed ruleset, uses external factors to affect the game, or goes beyond the supposed limits or environment set by the game. Another definition refers to the game universe outside of the game itself.
Intentionally steering RP in a direction satisfactory to the player over the character counts as using external factors to affect a game.
This is fine. It's not actually a problem.
I don't think, in this regard, it is a problem either. It's one thing if it's being done in order to get something. But if you're doing it so that the RP thread doesn't upset your OOC partners? Then I think there's a place for it.
Such as, I don't tolerate my characters being sexually harassed. I have to deal with that stuff IRL, and I don't want to deal with it in-game. When it does happen in RP, sometimes I find myself deeply unsettled or upset. I don't want to deal with that when I'm engaging in the fun hobby of RP. So that's a boundary I draw. And once I communicate this, I expect my RP partners to follow it.
Another example- RP relationships. What if someone, for any reason, isn't comfortable OOC with some IC entanglement? As the person RPing with them, you'd have a responsibility to them. Now you'll need a good IC reason to break it off, or something along those lines.
RPers will have their own OOC limits and boundaries, and it is a responsibility, I think, of their RP partners to respect those. Even if that means nudging the characters in a different direction.
As I mentioned before, when I've done this, my character has made choices that were in-line with what they would do. It just might not have been their decision had I not intervened. But since I did this for the good of my RP partners, including people I've been friends with for years, I don't see anything wrong with this.
