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Metagaming Bob is implied to be a player who metagames, so they intentionally use game knowledge to improve their odds of winning. If for instance they were to fail an insight check, they would choose to break character and act suspicious of the person who they failed insight on, even if their character should have no reason to suspect them.
So they'll end up with a inconsistent mess of a character whose illogical scrapheap of descisions had "win the thing I wanna do" as their sole background?
Real Travis from The Adventure Zone
Who?
One of the characters from the DnD-esque storytelling podcast “The Adventure Zone.” He metagames the whole time and fudges the heck out of his rolls.
I really enjoyed the podcast (the first section, Balance) but on a relisten, they’re definitely not actually playing and he fudges tons of rolls.
So he’s pretending and his companions don’t notice, or they all are?
It’s weird, there’s four of them and they’re mostly remote. So nobody sees his rolls.
It’s honestly an excellent story, I really loved it. But it’s so tough to listen to again after realizing this, it’s very distracting.