Daniel Ream: Whatever people do for a living, they want the exact opposite in RPGs

crkrueger · July 28, 2016, 03:19:59 AM

Quote from: jeff37923;910152I work for a Fortune 500 company as a Quality Control Robot Operator. I like playing in science fiction/science fantasy genre as a pilot/mechanic of some kind, so not too far from what I do normally.

Aside from the whole going into space which you will never do in your lifetime thing.

Vile Traveller · July 28, 2016, 03:26:56 AM

Landscape architect, and I want beautifully-executed maps and table-top terrain in my games, thank you very much. I guess it matters whether you hate your job.

Manzanaro · July 28, 2016, 03:28:09 AM

This is exactly why I hate playing murder hobos.

crkrueger · July 28, 2016, 03:29:25 AM

Because it's too close to your day job?

Manzanaro · July 28, 2016, 05:05:08 AM

The correct response is simply "lol". (Or you could note that you found the post to be helpful, for more of an understated effect.)

crkrueger · July 28, 2016, 05:34:40 AM

Responding to a joke with a joke isn't an appropriate response? Do you have the special secret interface that put the "Do you find this post helpful?" back in, because I don't see it.

Rincewind1 · July 28, 2016, 05:44:18 AM

There aren't many games with being a corporate drone as a focus, so I guess I'm safe.

Batman · July 28, 2016, 07:07:54 AM

I work in Surveillance, so any game where I'm not sitting and watching a video screen or monitor is a good game. Yay for human interaction!!

Omega · July 28, 2016, 07:23:15 AM

Villains & Vigilanties has players create game versions of themselves. Probably a few others that do too.

Willie the Duck · July 28, 2016, 07:36:40 AM

I'm a big data crunching health care researcher, so unless they invent SQL: the RPG or Legal Compliance D20, there won't be an exact analogue. On the other hand, I deal with an impossibly large system where incomplete data informs large questions about complex interactions that are half factual, and half rely on human behavior, with lots of imperfect systems (many of them legacy) which are still important to people even though they don't work perfectly for the situation at hand. So what do I do for escapism? Roll dice with a group that still considers 3e a perfectly good system and 'we'll make it work' covers a lot of the issues with the system. So maybe I'm just a glutton for punishment.

Warboss Squee · July 28, 2016, 09:46:09 AM

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;910105This notion is either blindingly obvious or "mu." Few of us have exciting lives, so no shit our games will be different from our real lives.

On the other hand, I work as a newspaper reporter. Playing D&D means ipso facto I will be playing not-what-I-do-in-real-life.

I'm the district manager of the local paper, but I don't think that would work in a game. Maybe CoC.

Quote from: Alderaan Crumbs;910114EOD tech here and I rarely play. When I have, I never played an ordnance guy or made IEDs or the like. I'm not the "Blow shits up!!!" guy, no matter the setting. Come to think of it, my NPCs are rarely into boom-boom, either.

My super-bestie was a corpsman and he's the same way, but with being the "healer". Even clerics, who he promptly slaps for praying to sky-faeries and touching him with warm, glowy hands.

OK, he doesn't slap clerics but he wants to. I know he wants to...

Personally, I dream of being a cyber-ninja with mind-wammy powers, so that's what I play.

As the bestie in question, I did three tours. Suggesting that I play the healer Will get you slapped. Repeatedly.

That said, most of my characters tend to be alcoholics, and I've been on the wagon nominally for years, so there's that I suppose.

Sommerjon · July 28, 2016, 10:14:03 AM

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;910136All I am saying is the premise 'people want to role play the exact opposite of what they do for a living, seems a little shaky to me. I think a lot of peoples' character choices are not far off from their real life personality. I am not saying it is identical to daily life or as boring.

It is shaky.

Some do, big deal. Some isn't all.

Shipyard Locked · July 28, 2016, 12:15:14 PM

Quote from: Batman;910199I work in Surveillance, so any game where I'm not sitting and watching a video screen or monitor is a good game. Yay for human interaction!!

Would you believe I sometimes, sometimes envy a job like yours?

Opaopajr · July 28, 2016, 01:51:32 PM

I am a polychromatic spaceship from the zone of fantasy. My day job involves shooting polychromatic aliens for fun and profit. (No, really, they turn into coins and cash bills that I have to fly down and collect. It's a bit rough on the wings.)

I have played just about anything and everything, but usually let random processes decide for me.

I have a fondness for GMing the human everyday, such as bookkeeping, housecleaning, receptioning, shopping, accounting, cooking, filing forms in triplicate, driving in traffic, and writing reports/essays.

So I guess it's true!

Willie the Duck · July 28, 2016, 01:52:41 PM

Quote from: Warboss Squee;910229I'm the district manager of the local paper, but I don't think that would work in a game. Maybe CoC.

I seem to recall both Marvel and DC comics having a heck of a lot of characters with day jobs in the newspaper industry. You could play a superhero game.

Quote from: Warboss Squee;910229That said, most of my characters tend to be alcoholics, and I've been on the wagon nominally for years, so there's that I suppose.

Interesting. I'm twelve years sober. I don't make my characters have the same issues, and a if we did the traditional 'you all meet in a tavern,' I assume my character would be having an ale. However, I wouldn't imagine choosing to roleplay an active drinking alcoholic.