Metagaming

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Metagaming means playing a game using skills/techniques/knowledge OUTSIDE that particular game.

Knowing each other IRL or outside the game and reading players during other games help improve metagaming skill.

[edit] Examples

[edit] Disguiser testing

This is often used in Disguiser test. When PlayerA is disguised as PlayerB. Other players (PlayerC/D) can use metagaming skills to check if PlayerB is the real one.

PlayerC: Hey PlayerB, what is the dessert you love most?
PlayerD: Answer it, PlayerB!!!!
PlayerB: um...i forgot. Tiramisu?
PlayerC: Wrong! PlayerB loves brownies to death!
PlayerD: So then PlayerB is disguised!
PlayerB: ...caught :'(

in the above scenario, because PlayerB is actually PlayerA, who doesn't know PlayerB much. Other players uses metagaming skill(knowledge outside the game) to prove that PlayerB is fake.

[edit] Familiarity

When two players have played together a number of times, one player may pick up on certain styles and attitudes the other player has depending on his role. If PlayerA tends to be more talkative as a town-sided role, but quieter and less involved as a mafia-sided role, if PlayerB, who had played with PlayerA several times before, begun to pick up on this inconsistency, this would be considered metagaming.

Terminology widely used on EpicMafia

AFK • Alt • Bandwagon • Blue • Bus • BW • CC • Clear • Counter Claim • Curse • Fakeclaim • FMPOV • Follow the Cop • Finger of Suspicion • FoS • Graveyard • Guilty • GY • Hammer • Hand of Suspicion • HoS • IL • Inno • Interception • Joint • Joint Win • Karma • Kick • LYLO • Leak • Lynch • Lynch or Lose • Lurking • Main • Massclaim • Mass Suicide • Matermingdling • Metagaming • MILO • Mislynch • Mislynch and Lose • ML • MYLO • NL • NK • No Lynch • No Kill • OMGUS • Power Roles • PR • Random Lynch • RL • RS • Scum • Scumslip • Scumtell • SK • Suicide • Trolling • Vanilla • Veggie • WIFOM