Godmod

To control another person's roleplaying in an Internet forum or chat room.

To abuse "God-mode" cheats.

To generally be a controlling asshole.

"Stop godmoding you stupid newb!"

by Luckdragon October 31, 2004

godmodding

Taking control of another person's character on a role-playing forum or chatroom. Sometimes done by mistake, when a player believes another player's character was doing something they weren't. Can also be used to refer to using out-of-character knowledge (information the player has that their character shouldn't) to gain an in-character advantage, though this is more accurately described with the term metagaming.

Godmodding and godmoding are often mistaken for being the same word or concept. However, godmoding (or power gaming) is, in fact, a separate concept with its own, distinct meaning.

Player A: Alice calls Bob forward, and the moment he steps forward, the trap is sprung, dropping him into the floor below!
Player B: Hey, that's godmodding, I never said Bob stepped forward!

Player B: Bob carefully steps over the trap as he approaches Alice.
Player A: Bob doesn't know there's a trap there! I call godmodding!

by NettoTakashi February 20, 2011

Godmoding

Godmoding covers a lot more matter than usually given credit for. It's a term used in many forms of roleplaying (Be they table-top, forum, IM, etc.) for any of the following problems:

1) When a character knows information that they shouldn't - this information could be taken from a forum they aren't supposed to have accessed, the user's prior knowledge on a subject (usually in fanbased RPs that follow a timeline), outside conversations about characters, or anything along those lines.

2) When a player takes control of another player's character (this is negated if there is some form of mind control involved, but even still permission for actually moving the character should be discussed). A common, though often accidental, version of this is when a character attacks another character and they explain that the other character was hit, not giving that person a chance to let their character dodge.

3) When a character is somehow invincible - if there's a GM, good luck getting this character through to the end. Everyone has weaknesses, your character should be included.


Should anyone out there still not get it - Godmoding is a bad thing.

1) Situation - In another forum, the GM has had a hitman hired to assassinate Player A's character.

Hitman: *Happens to be a super pretty girl - just the kind that Player A's character likes* Hey baby.
Player A: *Shoots in the head* Stupid assassin.

2) Person: Player A shoots at Player B, hitting him twice in the arm and once in the knee. And then, Player B falls to the ground, crippled from pain.

- In which the person's character is Player A.

3) ... does this really need explaining? They're indestructible.

All of the above? Godmoding. Generally considered rude / illegal in play.

by Luca Alverez February 17, 2009

Godmodder

In an RP, someone whose character is for all purposes, invincible. No attacks or any techniques will work against said character. The character can instantly recover from anything that happenes to him/her. Of course, the character can do anything to any other character and the other characters arn't allowed to defend against it.

In most RP's, godmoding is against the rules and will get anyone doing it kicked out.

by Anonymous August 30, 2003

glodmodding

Similar to godmodding, except this occurs when you are a twelvie, most likely on a roleplay server, and think that you are so much better than everyone else and require everyone's attention 24/7 so you abuse your non-existent power and cry when you are beaten up in said roleplay server, threatening to tell the other members' mothers about it.

person one: *HE FLEW 8464759 FEET IN THE AIR AND APPEARED BEHIND YOU, HITTING YOU WITH AN ULTRA LASER BEAM THAT WIPES YOUR SOUL FROM EXISTENCE AND EVERY LIVING MEMORY ON THIS PLANET SO YOU WILL BE NO MORE THAN A PILE OF DUST*

person two: wow look at that guy glodmodding

by gladwrapstar August 24, 2017

godmode

A common cheat in shooter video games, allows the player to be invincible.

"I'll godmode that wiener!"

by Biohertz January 30, 2003

godmoding

When one plays a character that can never be destroyed, harmed, etc. The character, however, can hurt and/or kill the other characters without giving the other characters a chance.

This is highly illegal in most, if not all, roleplays.

Sarah = Regular player
Bob = Godmodder

-Sarah aims her arrows at Bob and then releases-
-Arrows go through Bob and Bob jumps up and reaches into Sarah's chest and drags out her beating heart, squeezing the life out of it and killing her-

by unknown?? May 17, 2005