Ricki Yasha TarrIf you were going to play a Role Playing Game, who would your character be?
Dr.Ubertrout@RickiTarr
It's difficult to answer that question without knowing the setting and system. If you mean D&D, I almost always play a human rogue.
Seán Fenian@Dr_Ubertrout @RickiTarr Exactly this. What is the setting?
In first-person "roleplaying" video games like Skyrim, Fallout 4, Mass Effect et al, I'm more or less the 'paladin' who's trying to fix everything and save everyone, or as close to everyone as I can manage. (Which is why it INFURIATES me that in Mass Effect 3, after all the work you put into getting a peaceful resolution between the Quarians and the Geth, the destroy-the-Reapers ending choice — the ONLY "canonical" ending IMO, it's what you've spent the entire game trilogy promising to do — forces you to destroy the geth. It's a hobnailed boot to the face from Bioware's writers.)
In fantasy-oriented desktop RPGs like D&D, GURPS et al, I tended to be the fighter-mage, the warrior with some arcane special abilities, the outcast without a clan, the loner who could never find anywhere he belonged. But principled, never a murder-hobo. I always preferred the clever solution over "Kill them all, the gods will know their own." But leave me no other option and I will end you.
— "Who was that masked warrior?"
In first-person "roleplaying" video games like Skyrim, Fallout 4, Mass Effect et al, I'm more or less the 'paladin' who's trying to fix everything and save everyone, or as close to everyone as I can manage. (Which is why it INFURIATES me that in Mass Effect 3, after all the work you put into getting a peaceful resolution between the Quarians and the Geth, the destroy-the-Reapers ending choice — the ONLY "canonical" ending IMO, it's what you've spent the entire game trilogy promising to do — forces you to destroy the geth. It's a hobnailed boot to the face from Bioware's writers.)
In fantasy-oriented desktop RPGs like D&D, GURPS et al, I tended to be the fighter-mage, the warrior with some arcane special abilities, the outcast without a clan, the loner who could never find anywhere he belonged. But principled, never a murder-hobo. I always preferred the clever solution over "Kill them all, the gods will know their own." But leave me no other option and I will end you.
— "Who was that masked warrior?"
@Dr_Ubertrout @RickiTarr In Skyrim, my personal head-canon for how the game SHOULD have ended goes like this:
After the Dragonborn has dealt with Alduin the World-eater, the problem of the civil war remains. The Dragonborn does not join the Empire's side, nor the Stormcloaks, instead taking matters into their own hands and bringing down Ulfric Stormcloak,¹ thus ending the civil war. With the civil war ended, the Dragonborn secures the backing of the other Jarls, and becomes High King of Skyrim. As High King, the Dragonborn sends General Tullius and the Imperial army back to Cyrodiil since, absent a civil war, there is no longer any justification for the Imperial army to remain in Skyrim unless the Empire wishes war with a united Skyrim. The Dragonborn appoints Mjöll the Lioness as the new Jarl of Riften, with full authority to clean it up, and meets with Emperor Titus Mede — but not to assassinate him. Instead the Dragonborn asserts his claim to the Dragon Throne as Dragonborn Emperor, the re-establishment of the Septim line. Titus Mede, who is old, weary, and already dying, agrees, and names the Dragonborn as his successor before abdicating in his favor. The new Dragonborn Emperor, taking the last name of Septim, unites Skyrim and the rest of Cyrodiil, and then leads a combined army backed by dragon air-support to kick the Thalmor, the Nazis of Tamriel, all the way back to the Summerset Isles, liberating Morrowind in the process.
¹ When I last came up against him, one empowered Fire Breath shout and Ulfric and his right-hand man (whose name I forget) were crispy critters.
After the Dragonborn has dealt with Alduin the World-eater, the problem of the civil war remains. The Dragonborn does not join the Empire's side, nor the Stormcloaks, instead taking matters into their own hands and bringing down Ulfric Stormcloak,¹ thus ending the civil war. With the civil war ended, the Dragonborn secures the backing of the other Jarls, and becomes High King of Skyrim. As High King, the Dragonborn sends General Tullius and the Imperial army back to Cyrodiil since, absent a civil war, there is no longer any justification for the Imperial army to remain in Skyrim unless the Empire wishes war with a united Skyrim. The Dragonborn appoints Mjöll the Lioness as the new Jarl of Riften, with full authority to clean it up, and meets with Emperor Titus Mede — but not to assassinate him. Instead the Dragonborn asserts his claim to the Dragon Throne as Dragonborn Emperor, the re-establishment of the Septim line. Titus Mede, who is old, weary, and already dying, agrees, and names the Dragonborn as his successor before abdicating in his favor. The new Dragonborn Emperor, taking the last name of Septim, unites Skyrim and the rest of Cyrodiil, and then leads a combined army backed by dragon air-support to kick the Thalmor, the Nazis of Tamriel, all the way back to the Summerset Isles, liberating Morrowind in the process.
¹ When I last came up against him, one empowered Fire Breath shout and Ulfric and his right-hand man (whose name I forget) were crispy critters.