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Here is how my RP community on SL sees it.

If you are familiar with what meta means, this part of usual rules can be very confusing.

The colloquial metagaming is more of a slang on the definement. Combining meta and gaming by definition would cover any amount of work that goes on by the player to enact the roleplay. From clicking the screen, typing, and any work/discussion on an out of character basis about the roleplay itself.

This does not mean on our sim you should take any information garnered IC and use it to get an impression of the other player. Nor does it mean you should be using any information garnered OOC as a character, unless it is agreed upon.

Discussions about the roleplay OOC, can always be considered roleplay, without interacting IC. Plotting, planning, development of stories all include metagaming.

Developing stories together up to the point in time when the characters begin IC interaction can be very beneficial, and is considered roleplay as well on our sim. This can be seen day to day in roleplay as people create their background outside of IC interaction.

Just like any work of fiction, you have the characters actions, and speech. Whereas you also have story building of the narrator.

When a usual player suggests RP, typically they are trying to inform the other player they wish to take actions and speech with their character. Without narration the story cannot advance beyond day to day living with this kind of behavior; if in fact in denial that metagaming by our definition can be vital to the experience.

Don't worry about getting in trouble, doing OOC in local in the sense of continuation of the RP with each other. You are welcome to share, either IMs, Local Chat, Group or Notecards, with your fellow players. Please feel free to share your history with the other players. This is done in the same manner as you would if you were all sitting around a table IRL playing a tabletop RPG.

Conversations on the parcel, hopefully pertain to Roleplay. Not that you must para Roleplay, it is optional. We can go over stories of your character, OOC, even in Local Chat. But in the sense of how a Roleplaying Game required dice rolling, sharing of stories, explanations, declaration of actions; all are not metagaming by the slang. In other words, feel free to talk about your Roleplay together with your fellow players (yes, even in local). Feel free to communicate in this way, across the parcels (hopefully a full sim, someday).

Utilizing OOC in IC, or vice versa; is not allowed. What this means is not taking information you've gathered as a player (OOC), and utiltizing it IC, as if your character knows. Vice versa, please do not judge other players for their character's actions. There is a clear line between what is make believe, and what is real in any RP. Please respect this age old line of respect between fellow roleplayers. I did not intend to make anything required to be read. Feel free to play as is fair, and comfortable for you.

While as far as expressing in emotes things other players cannot possibly know is done by some, and frowned upon by others, we hope you won't meta-game these things, should a player post them. It can be used to get a sense of the other person's background, but it can be distressing to others if you post these things, but its not amongst something that 'can' be responded to in character (IC).