Metagaming in Roleplaying Games

Metagaming in Roleplaying Games, like Dungeons and Dragons, is talked about in very specific and hard line terms, but most people don't realize the in depth details of it. It's always framed as an argument about whether a player knows something the character does not, but it is so much more. DnD hardliners are on all sides. I wanted to break through that and go into the nuance of metagaming as a player, character, and dungeon master.
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Researched used in this essay:

Social Conflict in Role-Playing Communities: An Exploratory Qualitative Study - Sarah Lynne Bowman University of Texas (Dallas)

Role-Playing and Playing Roles: The Person, Player, and Persona in Fantasy Role-Playing
Dennis Waskul Minnesota State University, Mankato
Matt Lust Southern Utah University

The Role-playing game and the Game of Role-playing: the Ludic Self and Everyday Life - Dennis Waskul.

Metagames, Paragames and Orthogames: A New
Vocabulary - Marcus Carter, Martin Gibbs, and Mitchell Harrop

Adapting Metagaming Practices into Interactive Storytelling - Erica M. Kleinman

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