How is this kind of RP allowed?

[Sally]

Out of sheer curiosity, what is it about the bounties that makes them an act of metagaming?

Nothing, it's not metagaming. You could argue it's powergaming if you make a ridiculously high bounty on someone but then again there's no rule that sets any limit to bounties (because that would be stupid) and I think it's still a totally valid RP consequence.

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