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Isn't that god-modding to a degree?

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
- Sun Tzu

God Modding would be having my character know your techniques without proper recourse (being told about them or general information on kekkai genkai). My methods are knowing what techniques to use and what techniques not to use based on basic rules within the Naruto Universe (Elemental Weaknesses, combinations and the such).

For example with Asura's character. He is a Earth Element Shinobi who is also well versed in Taijutsu. I'd keep a distance using ranged Fire based Ninjutsu and using thrown tools mixed in with some Ninjutsu until I could catch him in a genjutsu. Using that to take an opening to strike him hard with a boil technique (Which essentially would be one of the Acid variety since boiling water wouldn't do much to him due to his kekkai genkai).

My character himself would only need to see him use one or two techniques to "develop" this strategy within the RP. Its very broad and open ended but effective.

Your character Zemy would be pretty much the same strategy, but because of your Lightning techniques, I could use my water techniques and have them augmented by your techniques increasing my arsenal of available jutsu.

The commonly used term for such as called "Meta-Gaming" in short is basically means your character has knowledge he shouldn't knowledge of the "player" that the character won't know.

So a person reading a profile, is no problem. But using a specific method of fighting or dodging an attack they wouldn't have seen coming without the knowledge of reading the profile, is playing out of character as it relied on knowledge they wouldn't have.

Meta-Gaming.


It is within the same level as god modding and i certainly see what your saying. Having free time and uses it to develop strats is no issue, but the separation of character knowledge and player knowledge must be kept.

To prevent Meta-gaming, you must play in character. People have a hard time doing this, people think roleplay is simple, but when you get deep into it and to play your character to its fullest can be very hard.
Just remember, your character only knows as much as he has interacted with, as much as he has personally seen. Kinda gotta think of character in TV shows, where we as the audience knows exactly whats going on, and though things may appear "clear" to use, the character is the show may not understand whats going on.

Thats part of why I develop strategies against fighting elements in general. I see an opponent use a few elemental techniques and then my character can develop the strategy on his own.

idk, it's like this guild is sorta dead in a way..yet sorta under construction..

I agree... this place has been shut down for too long.. >:T

Yay! now I need 30 more.. sweatdrop