tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7595338287962170566.post633193135910631014..comments2023-07-31T08:12:49.095-07:00Comments on TAG Sessions: Meta-Gaming Isn't Always BadTobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492998146251500460noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7595338287962170566.post-10582007913752340582013-01-07T04:18:39.534-08:002013-01-07T04:18:39.534-08:00Hehheeh that's very true.
I find myself a mix ...Hehheeh that's very true.<br />I find myself a mix of being into the new stuff and OSR too.<br />I love Palladium and FASERIP and DC HEROES, cWOD with all their warts and failings as a system, but I love Lacuna, Houses of the Blooded, nWOD and the like as well. <br /><br />Gaming is fun and will always be fun for me.Tobiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14492998146251500460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7595338287962170566.post-35374693982495315102013-01-07T03:27:17.192-08:002013-01-07T03:27:17.192-08:00Indeed, "metagaming" is a word from time...Indeed, "metagaming" is a word from times long-gone, times when transparency was sin and players knowing the rules verboten. The Age of the GM Screen.<br /><br />Every action is followed by a reaction, equal in strength but in the opposite direction.<br /><br />That opposite direction started with the player-empowerment movement that gets old-schoolers so much into a hissy fit and reached its apex with the storygaming paradigm. Now, neither school of GMing is necessarily "wrong" (let alone "evil" as the more polarized members of each school will denounce the other as), but then, being opposite, are irreconcilable.<br /><br />Also, to the chagrin of both sides, neither school is going anywhere. Storygaming keeps gaining ground and further evolving, and while for a time it was old-schoolers the ones oppressed by the "evil new games usurping the GM's power", along came OSR, and things are eventually achieving an equilibrium (if not a stalemate).<br /><br />Nowadays there are few remaining terms of the old lingo that retain meaning in both schools. One school's godness is another's anathema, and some terms are falling in disuse altogether.<br /><br />If the last time I heard the term in its original context is any indicative, metagaming seems to be one of them.( This space for rent )https://www.blogger.com/profile/10302365485487452351noreply@blogger.com