Metagaming & Powergaming - In-depth Explanation

[Lythrilux]

I feel like parts of this range from not being entirely true to being the author's own personal viewpoint. Really all this guide needs is to be supplanted by the definitions of MG and PG from Google with a handful of simple, straightforward examples cited with sanctions.

I'm curious as to what parts you think ought be called into question? The only sketchy bit I saw was "treat a BAF IFF'd Freelancer ID'd character as if he had Freelancer IFF", which is, I find, a situational thing.

I've also been here for over a decade and its still a decent rule of thumb for newbies.

Well notably, by the author's admission, there are items in the guide that aren't even defined in the rules (and aren't necessarily treated as common knowledge by players either). All too often we've had newbies being completely misled by wrong information that's presented as facts (i.e the era where newbies were told that K'Hara forcing visions and telepathy on you was accepted and you had to roll with it).

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