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Who was your favorite character to role play?

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Rimworld because Rimworld is an RPG.

John Whitehouse, not only did he have a badass name, but he was a badass old man that lead around a bunch of good for nothing youngsters and their hippity hoppity ongo bongo drum music lovin tribal friends. Unfortunately, he was captured, and for whatever reason I got bored. Think Gran Torino.

This one asian chick martial artist and some old man who was constantly hitting on her and sleeping in the same bed because of the weather outside. Here lies whoever that guy was, he never scored.

Some spastic chef who was always making the best meals despite sperging out on the ground in a frenzy because of brain damage. He was also in charge of international relations. Very charming guy, the royalty seemed to think.

Whoever that prisoner was that kept having the batteries explode on him. It would happen almost every other day, and right after he'd healed from the last.

The space muslim sharia law colony I had where it was traps and neolithic weapons only so I made a maze for the doorway and watched brainlets run right into sawblades and body crusher traps. That was a mountain colony, yet what's odd is that insects never spawned inside the mountain, but they did spawn outside and blocked us off from ever seeing sunlight again. We never had to worry about raids ever again because they acted as a natural defense, but they were reproducing nonstop and formed this layer of goo and hives and enemies from raids that happened years ago, stuck in webs. At one point we had to do something about it when the front gate wouldn't shut, so if the electricity went off, the insects would eventually traverse the maze and reach an open door into our humble sharia abode. I decided that no fuckin bug was going to tell me how to beat my slaves, so I sent two people out, but remember in Night of the Living Dead when that dude and his girlfriend and the main guy go outside to get the car? Well instead of exploding there was just no way to get back into the colony once they somehow made it out, so they traveled the world and started their own settlement deep in the tunnels of some area on the map that sounds like "asshole."
 

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Holy shit, this thread is (so far) as pure as the Codex gets. Almost everyone's talking about RPG gaming with a passion and ignoring political stuff.
 

ERYFKRAD

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Strap Yourselves In Serpent in the Staglands Shadorwun: Hong Kong Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
Holy shit, this thread is (so far) as pure as the Codex gets. Almost everyone's talking about RPG gaming with a passion and ignoring political stuff.
Well that's the way the topic is. Most political you can get is caster genocide, elf slaughter and anti gnomitism.
 

NecroLord

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Holy shit, this thread is (so far) as pure as the Codex gets. Almost everyone's talking about RPG gaming with a passion and ignoring political stuff.
Well that's the way the topic is. Most political you can get is caster genocide, elf slaughter and anti gnomitism.
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destinae vomitus

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Playing Morrowind as a khajiit sneakthief who hustles their way through life whilst perpetually hopped up on skooma & fortify speed potions made from moonsugar sure is something. The Nerevarine prophecy can wait, I've got more important things to do, like relocating em dancing ass-ets in the house of earthly delights over to my stronghold by way of command humanoid so that I can add yet more booty in there. Azura is super proud of me anyhow, I perfectly fit the bill. Not only am I one of her favored races, constantly snorting the moonsugar for which she's credited, I'm also accomplishing what she ultimately wants as I muck up and reave the tribunal's shit. Most important of all, I get to have an entirely wholesome romance with Ahnassi devoid of any miscegenation deviancy, what more can a man ask for? Besides a pair of boots of course.
 

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I mostly play as two handed sword wielding human warrior who overpowers mage faggotry with pure physical power, endurance and willpower (quite often it just means ignoring or gimping my agility during character creation). Almost always i plan my characters to do anything, no matter how gray to acomplish their goals, though quite often i end playing them as a typical do gooder because i feel losing access to quests, exp and items etc. is not worth it, or just the other choices are retarded and/or dont allow this type of character. If rpg allows to gather ancient artifacts and learn lore (think Age Of Decadence) then my character is also on quest to gather lost knowledge and uncover ancient secrets.
 

perfectslumbers

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It was a mediocre game but the most enjoyable roleplaying I've done is playing a very devout religious druid in Pillars of Eternity. No rpgs take religion very seriously so it was enjoyable playing a game that did take it seriously (although the ending sort of ruined it for me.) And yeah the game lacks in c&c, but if you don't know that the wealth of dialogue choices convincingly creates the illusion that you're really playing a character in the game world.
 

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Holy shit, this thread is (so far) as pure as the Codex gets. Almost everyone's talking about RPG gaming with a passion and ignoring political stuff.
One of my favourite characters was Am'Ren the Racially Loyal in Elder Scrolls Online. He was a dark elf magicka Dragon Knight, which meant his main weapon was a flaming whip. He was the leader of an organisation called the Pan-Elven Racial Front (PERF), whose task it was to foster elven racial solidarity regardless of culture or political alliance, with "our race is our alliance" being the motto. He refused to participate in regular activities like monster hunting and quests, instead only doing arena fights against other players, with considerable success. His sole existence consisted of alternating between (1) fighting on the arena and (2) promoting racial solidarity in public spaces whilst waiting in the arena queue. Well, that and market speculation, but above all no peasantly grinding.

Sadly, he ended up being banned after a chat with some fed, which I learned by email one or two days after deleting the game.
 
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0sacred

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In party based RPG's I always like having a brute, like a Half-Orc or Half-Giant, barbarian type with a two-handed axe.

I also enjoy roleplaying a bard type character with all the good auto win buttons dialogue skill options.

Neutral Evil Dwarves are also great to roleplay, that alignment and race were made for each other.
 

Bohrain

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My team has the sexiest and deadliest waifus you can recruit.
I usually gravitate towards being a sneaky git if the mechanics don't make it a super weak build.
 

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But my favourite roleplaying experience ever was playing as the various superheroes I dreamed up in City of Heroes. There wasn't much responsiveness to your particular hero in the game, but there was a lot of scope to create whatever character, look and power combination you wanted, and room to go wild with the bio (which others could read - and they'd complement you if you'd written a good origin story or whatever :) ). There was a lot of roleplay lite in the game in PUGs, people easily slipped into the vibe of being in a team of superheroes hunting dastardly villains. You could also macro speech/chat, with things like, "Take that, you dastardly villain! AND THAT!" attached to attacks or other moves, and it was always fun when someone in the team had some cool, intricate macro with some typical superhero trope. Just a lot of just light-hearted fun, with everyone joking around and having a good time.

There was definitely some fun to be had in COH limited scope. The multiple costume slots came in handy with my teammates and I shifting designs depending on how we felt the mission was. We had regular superhero costumes, a set of Mortal Kombat homage costumes and a Hellraiser theme set.



I might get ridiculed for the game but some of you might be able to relate to the character but in Fable 2 I remember playing an alcoholic with a sweet tooth that carried a huge hammer. He was also an asshole most of the time so throughout the game, the fatter and uglier he got, the more ruthless he became during the game until he was a sadistic glutton by the end.

In Morrowind I was playing a rogue-type character for most of the game and then I contracted Vampirism and enjoyed that for a while. Sneaking around at night and stealing things. I was amazed the first time I ran into the guards in Balmora and when they tried to apprehend me, I just leapt up onto the rooftops and bounded out of the city limits. After a while Vampirism wore out its welcome and I wanted to cure it but I read that once its cured, you lose everything. So i found a mod that strikes a nice balance between cure and retaining a small stat boost from the time spent as a Vampire.
 

Ulysa

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Sorry going full mainstream mode. It was fem Revan. KOTor I was better than KOTOR II fite me. Plus for having the less cringy romance in an rpg.
 

Cryomancer

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Casters, mostly focused in darkness or cold. I have over 1k hours in kingmaker. Mostly as Wiz and never played an non arcane caster. In WoW, I only played as Affliction Warlock & Frost Mage. In DS2, I play as sorc and hexer. In Gothic 2 - Returning, as water mage and necromancer(and yes, hated that you must be a fire mage in main game).
 

Norfleet

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Neutral Evil character as they get the most loot
Nah, the most-loot character is the true-neutral "Skyrim Protagonist". Doesn't take any side until absolutely forced to. Strictly avoids killing anyone important, good or bad: Everyone else is fair game. Steals everything not nailed down, as long as doing so avoids permanently antagonizing any important character or faction. Does every possible quest, good or bad.
 

Rosey

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In fantasy I'm almost always a some sort of swordsaint. I just dont understand why anyone would use a fucking staff. Swords are cool and if theres a spell that lets me delete an entire room I want it. Even if diverting points into melee skills makes the DC useless against the hordes of darkness I can at least depopulate a village in style after running all their errands.

Basically for the first run on any game I'll just play a psychotic wizard (while taking whatever steps needed to carry a sword and not a stick.) If on my path of murder the game is good enough to warrant a replay and makes me care about anyone I melt along the way then when I come back through to try a new build I'll be nice just to see what happens.

For PnP I think wacked out archetypes of people in modern settings are fun.
 

Chippy

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
Nothing comes to mind except my original BG character and then the characters the games gave us. Geralt was probably the best. I'm currently trying a scenario out in my head on my second playhtough of Skyrim where Geralt retires there and gets a going away "present" from Regis that makes him a vampire. So he's weak to begin with and then moves onto that and becoming a werewolf. Unfortunately the mods wont allow it to hapen.
 

0sacred

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In fantasy I'm almost always a some sort of swordsaint. I just dont understand why anyone would use a fucking staff.

It doesn't use mana.
You can use if defensively.
It makes enemies underestimate you.

only soyboy fantasies revolve around people actually underestimating you
 

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