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Old 01-04-2006, 12:14 PM   #82
Ze'Manel Cunha
 
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Default Re: Whats a Munchkin?

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Originally Posted by Tom Kalbfus
You have to understand that out of character knowledge also constrains your characters actions if you try a deliberately non-munchkin style of play. How do you know whether your character is acting on information he wouldn't have known but whose player knows or whether that character would have figured it out independently? If you already know that some other members of the party who are in a different section of the dungeon are in dire peril, but your character would not, do you go and try to rescue them?
*grin*
It's called roleplaying, not metagaming.

What your describing is usually the difference between a roleplayer and a metagamer, the roleplayer just plays his characters regardless of OOC knowledge, the metagamer uses his OOC knowledge to influence his characters' actions, depending on how far the metagamers go, they become full blown munchkins.

Metagamers are a pain and a drag on the roleplayers, but some eventually learn to roleplay, and you often only have to kick them out of your gaming groups if they're being metagaming munchkins, and/or the roleplayers get sick and tired of whopping them for their metagaming tendencies.
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