TLV - Godmodding and Metagaming -- When You're Doing It And How Not To

[bargemods]

Godmodding was briefly touched upon in our rules already, but let's talk about it, and its lesser cousin, Metagaming, here at greater length for a few minutes.

Godmodding involves giving your characters random advantages and/or crazy maneuvers to ensure they win/avoid dying/whatever. This can involve a lot of things:

1. Randomly defying physics to dodge an attack that they shouldn't be able to dodge.

2. Taking a hit that should hurt them but doesn't phase them in the least.

3. Moving or manipulating or doing harm to another player's character without their permission.

4. Giving your character abilities/powers/immunities that are not posted in your original application. This is important, especially for Inmates, since we expect their abilities to be significantly hindered, and have to approve whatever it is you put down that they can still do.

5. Metagaming -- which here means your character knows things they have no business knowing.

There is some give or take in fourth wall issues. Some characters here will inevitably come from fictional places according to other people. That's fine. See our post on Fourth Wall issues for more details, and for a list of posts by players detailing what they will allow to be known about their characters. Here's where it's not okay though: if your character has no reason to know it, they don't know it.

The Library is not an excuse for metagaming. In fact, if there isn't published literature on characters there that doesn't exist now, in the real world, you will not find it there. (And by literature, I do mean strictly literature. Not comics. Not movie/episode novel adaptations. Not screenplays.)

Comments

[lazarusrisen.livejournal.com]

I also totally forgot about something Adam can do. In the television show, if he gave a transfusion of his blood to someone then the person would be healed of any wounds/diseases/nasty radiation burns they were suffering. I figure since that's actually a helpful power and there probably aren't any IVs or blood taking devices around (and Inmates probably wouldn't have access to them) I'd let him still have it.

Is it okay if Adam still has his happy-blood-cure-all power?

[k-lee-frye.livejournal.com]

Don't see a problem with it.

[lazarusrisen.livejournal.com]

Cool. Thanks bunches!

[notverylordly.livejournal.com]

What I figured for Jacen was that he can feel the Force, so he would know other Jedi and can meditate and all that but anything that would be considered a Jedi or Sith power was stripped from him, so no lightning no mind tricks, no telekinisis no mind reading etc.

Only other thing is the fact he reacts better to pain than most, thats not a Force thing that was just from having surrvived torture from the Yuzhan Vong. He still feels it and it still injures him the same as anyone else, it just doesnt hinder him unduly, unless like when Morgan shot him which physically hindered him.

Can tone down if need be

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Having him feel the Force = perfectly fine.

Far as his resilience goes, so long as it's from training/experiences and not "powers", it should be all right. In the interest of fairness, it's probably best to work out OOCly with whomever you're RPing with in the event of a fight, though!

[notverylordly.livejournal.com]

Cool.

And yep I have been taking to the other players whenever he gets into fights, I hate anything that can even be misconstrued as puppeting. Its worked out thusfar serving only to make people go huh.