Regarding Player Skill

 - - Description - - Joe Richter of the Hindsightless Podcast drops a formitable challenge: define the difference between Player Skill and Metagaming - so I sit down with a formitable Dungeon Master, Rick Stump of Harbinger Games and the Don't Split the Party blog, to take a shot at answering. Do you have thoughts on the subject? Drop me a voicemail!  https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail/message Theme music by Michael Ramir C, courtesy of Mixkit.co (https://mixkit.co/).  - - Show Notes - -  00:00 - Joe Richter: What is the Difference? 00:58 - Theme 01:28 - Welcoming Rick Stump! 03:37 - Player Skill in Seaward 07:46 - Thwarting the Metagamer In Game 11:08 - The Line Between Metagame Information and In-Setting Common Knowledge 13:03 - Truth, Rumors, and the Halfways Between 21:59 - Psychotronic Theory: Verisimilitude and Misdirection 25:52 - Learning from your Players 29:23 - The Impact of Random Encounters and Rules as Written on Metagame Strategy 31:57 - Flashlights Scare Ghosts Away 34:05 - Make Original Content! 35:32 - Players Don't Want to Metagame 38:00 - The Meta-Game in Roleplay-Adjacent Games 42:32 - Is "The Build Game" Metagaming? 45:31 - The Difference Between Knowing the System and Gaming the System 47:13 - The Original Impetus Behind the Discussion! 49:35 - Outro (Thank you, Rick!) 50:18 - Theme & Legal  - - Links - -  Hindsqwightless: https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9/ Weal or Woe: https://www.wealorwoe.com/ Dont Split the Party: http://harbingergames.blogspot.com/ Lore with Rick Podcast: https://anchor.fm/rick-stump Rick's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RickStump Lew Pulsipher in Seaward: http://harbingergames.blogspot.com/2013/05/jazz-band-adventuring.html Pulsipher Games: https://pulsiphergames.com/