01-04-2006, 12:14 PM | #81 | |
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01-04-2006, 12:14 PM | #82 | |
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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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01-04-2006, 12:29 PM | #83 | |
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01-04-2006, 12:29 PM | #84 | |
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01-04-2006, 12:38 PM | #85 | |
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A type of player who lacks imagination and cannot think beyond his own unvarying ambitions and goals, which are exclusively concerned with gathering fighting power and killing things (basically treating a roleplaying game like a videogame: a simulation of killing things with cool power-ups) in ways which have little or no necessary relationship to the setting or mood of the campaign. There. That's a munchkin. And that's so much less elegant than the "Florentine ninja" thing. See what happens when you overanalyze?
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01-04-2006, 02:10 PM | #86 | |
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much hard to sport a munchkin by character concept. but here's a RL example so during a GURPS Supers game I ran. a robot the buy a nuclear self destruct with with amnesia, and a delusion that they a mutant not a robot, decided to self-destruct when the first PC he runs into is not awe struck with wonder at him.... after checking what the blast radius the device was, decided on not wanting to lose Paris this early in the campaign told the player that he could not remember the authrisation code. |
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01-04-2006, 02:13 PM | #87 | |
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The only flaw is to force/let those people to play in a "Jane Austen Novel" as you put it earlier (maybe the group should discuss what sort of game they want to play, and "kick" this guy out (especially if he is a friend, honesty above all))... Munshkin = I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York -Sting ;) I had a phase where I thought that everybody who used dices for Diplomaty/Public Speaking/Fast Talking/etc. was no role player (until it dawned upon me that I also do not performe the acrobatics my hero does). So claiming that this player "lacks imagination and cannot think beyond his own unvarying ambitions and goals" is just snobish thinking, forgetting what is most important about RPG, fun!!! And noone should be forced to play a role he does not like... 'cause thats no fun...
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01-04-2006, 02:20 PM | #88 |
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How about a person who plays in a World War II campaign, kills a few Germans and then rifles through their pockets looking for treasure?, he then kills some Germans in a Pillbox jumps inside slaps a German soldier around and demands to know where he keeps his treasure. Then he looks around fro secret doors, overturning furniture in a frantic effort to find treasure. When his superior officer demands that he turn over all the items that he's collected, the private says, "I didn't see you around when we killed all those krauts. I say whoever helps in the killing gets his fair share of the booty." Meanwhile the treasure hunt on the battlefield continues.
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01-04-2006, 02:33 PM | #89 |
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Tom, I'm not getting the point of your last few posts. Is there one?
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01-04-2006, 02:34 PM | #90 | |
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Disobeying a direct order in that type of combat situation can also get the private shot, legally.
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