Hi all,
I was recently discussing with one of my players some of the funny metagaming incidents I've experienced throughout the years, so I figured others probably have funny stories like these as well.
Goal for this thread - funny metagaming stories, not debates about what is or is not metagaming, thanks.
My story: PCs are outside a cottage in the middle of nowhere. They discover this kindly old lady inside, and she indicates she'll share her words of wisdom with the PCs, individually.
I ask the players if they're going to enter, they all say yes. Each player enters individually, and their character is knocked out (The lady was actually a hag of some type IIRC).
When I get to the last player, I start explaining about how he enters, and he says no, he doesn't enter.
I say why not? Keeping in mind that the cottage was under the effects of a silence spell, so no one could hear what happened inside.
The player explains that his character saw a butterfly and he started chasing it around the woods.
Looking forward to other people's funny metagame stories.
Playing a pacifistic union-sympathetic ghoul at a Vampire: The Masquerade LARP when I saw weapon cards whip out in a (unbeknownst to me) isolated scene.
While not a wimp, my character's rationale for 'not getting involved?'
"Those two guys standing there like guards over the whole thing look kind of beefy, ain't no way I'm getting involved with that. I'm just going to walk this way... didn't see a thing... above my paygrade..."
Turned out it was a *really good thing* I hadn't intruded, the scene had been set-up to draw in 'lemmings' who had a habit of busting into random areas...