Insider Information
Chapter: Season Two
I know my fair share of DMs who’ve been on the receiving end of players scoping out insider information and dropping the meta-game hammer on their head. Brett is no exception, it seems. Personally, I’m not a huge fan of meta-gaming. It’s called a role-playing game for a reason. If your character is a 1st-level, 19 year-old fighter then play him like one. Odds are the DM will love you for it.
Brian
I’d agree with you about meta-gaming (though I generally don’t mind it much), but I’d say that in a situation like this, it’s both justified and necessary. A meta-game slap in the face may be just what is needed.
Even though I fully agree with Graham that it is justified, I’d just say “Sorry, these are a different type of vorpal golem.”
100X “ACT LIKE YOUR CHARACTER.” Some people just aren’t that invested in the game, sometimes. For better or worse. Or rather, they’re more invested in the game than the story of it.
Meta gaming has long been a pet peeve of mine. I try to quash it whenever I can.
I’ve never gone on a player-killing rampage, but if I did, I would definitely create new monsters with very specific weaknesses and put them in varied strike forces to counteract all tactics. This is assuming I’m making a correct CR encounter and not simply an imminent-death trap. In the latter case I’d just throw a Dracolich at them AFTER they escape from a cave full of ancient rust monsters. 😀
Well the way to deal with meta gaming. “You as a player know that, your character does not. Therefore what you do from this point is null and void.” Then kill character in the most painful way possible. Fucking cheating is what it is.
Meta-gaming, the sweet nectar of beating a begrudged DM to a pulp with the simple knowledge of their weaknesses. And yet also the bane of the player that brings it up… as it in turn makes ‘new monsters’ just suddenly appear!
If the GM presents a monster that is all but unkillable, and the player knows the special weakness – both the players and the gm are meta-gaming. Both are to blame.
Any time a GM Grudge-games, he is metagaming. As the arsonist said, “Fight fire with fire!”
This must have been posted in a pre-angry rant era :DD
(but what do I know, I haven’t even played an RPG before, I just read about them 🙁 )