To me god-mode is pretty simple. Make sure your character CAN take hits and leave wiggle room for another character to react when emoting. Most of god-mode can be done away with if you steer clear of these two.
Meta-gaming on the other hand is more tricky. We all meta-game. It's just a matter of to what extent can it go. For example we all speak English, use vocabulary, syntax etc. that we learned in RL within the game. Most of gaming is meta-gaming because we use the RL as a frame of reference to an extent.
Where it gets out of hand is when someone reads something OOC and then their character changes their behavior because of what the player has read. In a perfect RP-world we could just forget all OOC when we play but I don't think it's possible. We see the possibilities of stories and events with others as we read their story posts and drive our characters in that direction. Yet from my experience it's not considered foul, in fact both parties use the OOC knowledge to develop a story willingly. There are many indirect meta-gaming scenarios that we should keep in mind. We should separate those from the worst ones, where a character just knows things they shouldn't.
Meta-gaming on the other hand is more tricky. We all meta-game. It's just a matter of to what extent can it go. For example we all speak English, use vocabulary, syntax etc. that we learned in RL within the game. Most of gaming is meta-gaming because we use the RL as a frame of reference to an extent.
Where it gets out of hand is when someone reads something OOC and then their character changes their behavior because of what the player has read. In a perfect RP-world we could just forget all OOC when we play but I don't think it's possible. We see the possibilities of stories and events with others as we read their story posts and drive our characters in that direction. Yet from my experience it's not considered foul, in fact both parties use the OOC knowledge to develop a story willingly. There are many indirect meta-gaming scenarios that we should keep in mind. We should separate those from the worst ones, where a character just knows things they shouldn't.
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