Snowy's definition is pretty much spot-oin, though. Meta-gaming means different things to different people, and more importantly, the line where it becomes odious or a problem is specific to the individual. That's metagaming, but it takes a better person than me to calmly watch his first roleplaying character for 10 years bleed to death because one of the other players doesn't know his character's abilities properly!

That was an out of character conversation where one player tries to get another to do something he otherwise wouldn't have. This was our characters' first adventure together, my level 1 sorcerer probably didn't know good clerics could convert prepared spells into healing, and in any event he was unconscious so couldn't have told him. I explained that he could spontaneously convert one of his 0 level spells into a cure minor wounds. The player then responded that he was out of healing spells. That's an out of character hint fom the DM to an inexperienced player, which to my mind is to be encouraged. In another game, the DM suggested to the player of the good cleric that he might want to heal my sorcerer (given that he was unconscious and bleeding to death). What sort of stuff does he do? It can be a grey area (but it normally isn't!).įor example, in a 1 shot game I was in one of the other players advised everyone to charge the dragon as he saw the DM had rolled a 1 for the dragon's initiative, so 'we could kill it before it gets a chance to act'.

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