Do you role-play in MP games and why or why not?

[Omnirizon]

yes I supppose I got off topic.

roleplaying and metagaming are two different things. now that I think about, you could actually, technically, completely do one without doing the other at all.

However I do think that good roleplaying and good gaming (as opposed to metagaming) go hand in hand. By doing one's best to roleplay, good gaming follows.

also, note that some may not consider metagaming cheating; i'm more orthodox on that though. In some games, metagaming is part and parcel of the accepted strategy. Typically in the more competitive gaming especially.