metagaming

English

Etymology

meta- +‎ gaming

Noun

metagaming (uncountable)

  1. The playing of metagames.
  2. (roleplaying games) The act of a roleplayer making use of knowledge that they have learned out of character (and which their character does not know) while they are in character; often considered a form of cheating.
    • 2017, Amanda K. Allen, “Social Networking, Participatory Culture and the Fandom World of Harry Potter”, in Gail Ashton, editor, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 284:
      Other terms are specific to the role-playing experience, such as […] 'Metagaming', in which players act on information that they, as players, know, but which their characters could not know (or have not yet learned).

Verb

metagaming

  1. (roleplaying games) present participle and gerund of metagame
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