Rate me for cheese.

[davywavy]

Just broke a personal rule & metagamed slightly to get some plot & IC interaction. I'm feeling a bit disappointed in myself, but I just want somehting to do at the moment, and this sounds like as good a thing as anything...

What I did: knowing that someones PC was interested in X, I asked them if their PC would like to talk about working together. The thing is, I have no way of ICly knowing their POC is interested in X, and it is very unlikely it'd ever have come out in conversation with me ICly. Thus I have broken the 'invisible wall' of IC and OOC knowledge (something I don't believe I ever did before) in order to try and give myself a more satisfying game.

Cheese rating frmo 1-10, please. I don't know how bad this is in the eyes of the general public.

Comments

[kathminchin.livejournal.com]

1

It's not going to be detrimental the other character, and adds to the other player's game as well as your own.

[borusa.livejournal.com]

2?

Compared to what I'm considering doing with a character...it's nothing.

To be honest, whilst IC purity is lovely....it's a game and people should enjoy it.

4

[eddyfate.livejournal.com]

It's not OVERLY cheese, but it is definitively cheese. The cheese is not harmful (yet), but it did inspire "artificial" RP. All told, I rank it a 4.

[sherbetsaucers.livejournal.com]

Ahhh stop wineing! So you meta gamed! It's not hurt anyone, it's encouraged RP and it's helping you enjoy your character. You generally not a cheesey person, but be careful, your comming over to the dark side...

[jonnyargles.livejournal.com]

Players are mini-ST's. You can come up with some reason after the event, but in th meantime it tells a story, and it makes it fun for you both, and you're not - I hope - gaining an unfair 'advantage' over other players, so run with it. Just don't let Morgan catch you.

[zenmeisterin.livejournal.com]

I agree with Jonny: players are mini-STs. Accidental useage of this sort of thing happens all the time and as long as you didn'y horribly screw over the character in doing so, it's a recoverable thing.

Still a bit of a Naughty-Naughty though so I'll say a Cheese rating of about a 3.

[atrophy-angel.livejournal.com]

i'd only give you a 2 for cheese there, coz sounds to me like something to make people's game more fun, rather than to screw them in the ear.
& metagaming, in my mind & experience, usually comes w the above... :S

Cheesy?

[phoenix-tat.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't call this cheesy, but it does leave a bad taste in my mouth. I know it happens a lot, but I've always fought against doing it myself. Rather than a cheesiness rating, I'll give it a Gaming Sin rating. On a 1-10 scale (10 being an ST using every bit of OOC knowledge he has to further his own character) I'd call this a 4. Nobody's perfect, but you seem to be concerned about it, so I'd say don't follow through unless you get a compelling IC reason and the IC reason makes sense.

There's always things to metagame, but the key is to always ask, "Before my character responds to this, is it something he/she would really know about or am I using too much OOC information"

So, an answer to your question and unsolicited advice, all in the same reply.

Re: Cheesy?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Well, it *is* somehting that my PC is interested in, because it's something that hopefulyl will incvrease his standing in the Camarilla, which is somehting he wants to achieve.

I may die doing it, as well, so risk is positive.

And the subject has come up in conversation; the thing was - without an OOC nudge it never would ahve, but after it did, the other PC in question was delighted to ahve someone with similar goals to work with.

It's a difficult one, and it's not something I'd normally do - in fact, I always draw an aggressive line between IC & OOC, as I feel that I ought to set an example to all the people who don't - but should I draw that line at the expense of enjoying the game? That's the difficult question, and I don't know - even if I can./should blur it occasionally, where is the line drawn? if I acknowledge one degree of blurring, who am I to criticise someone who acknowledges another degree of blurring? it renders me incapable of criticising anyone else, possibly ever. It wasn't a decision lightly taken, believe me.

Re: Cheesy?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

And did I really want to see your nipple at 9am in the morning?