Just now I’m reading Gamemastering by Brian Jamison (free pdf via http://www.gamemastering.info/ or printed version via amazon). I read halve of the book but this already was more than worth my time. Good tipps and tricks here especially how to flesh out PCs and NPCs (or GCs like Brian calls them). His technic is a bit more like the one already found in Blades and pretty cool I think.
In case you don’t know the book yet, give it a try.
I can’t really say I agree at all with his advice on passive-aggressive attempts to shut down metagaming and OOC discussion. Particularly for Blades, OOC discussion is group thing and everyone is a mini-GM, so I don’t think that advice is applicable here.
Regardless of the game, I know if a GM asserted that my clearly OOC comments were made by my character and insulted a local powerful official – rather than blatantly told me he’d prefer if I kept OOC discussion to a minimum – I’d start getting really irritated.
Shutting down meta gaming and OOC only works for hardcore trad gaming. Most indie style games thrive on it or even require it. Even with trad gaming though, if his advice is as you say, it sounds obnoxious.
Before someone gets this wrong: The book has A LOT more topics and not just advice about meta gaming / OOC. I find the tables very useful as inspiration for stories and characters.
Just remember my advice #1: You decide what works for you (and your group) and what not.
Stefan Struck True. I wasn’t meaning to discredit the book or the author as a whole.