I never got to play that character though.

Man I kinda wanna reuse that Ork

Couldn't you get around having a legit SIN by keeping at least one fake one that you use primarily?

I didn't even put anything into rigging. He was just this stubbornly old-fashioned dude who insisted on driving manually and I put a ton of dice into that

Basically

And changing your appearance

But anyone who makes any connection can royally fuck you up

It was my compensation for my Face character- the annoyingly sneaky careful character who pretty much couldn't be traced followed up by one of the most vulnerable characters I've played

How does this all happen on a table top game. It sounds as if you are describing a video game.

It depends.

Because it's just pen and paper. You make everything up. The games are very broad

Ok.

Some games use minuatures on a map, some are just descriptive.

Broader than you could feasibly make with modern software without making major sacrifices

It's interactive campfire stories

Ok.

I've never been a big grid and minis guy

Exactly.

Yeah, me neither.

My group tried to impose it and we just never followed through. Abandoned positioning pieces after 30 minutes every time

Oh. I get the modified camp fire story part. Did that sort of stuff in Scouts. The stories just got progressively worse. Lol

But yeah the dice rolls and rules are just like... arbitration

Player wants to do X, DM wants to do Y, rolls happen

Or a rule prevents/supports it

If you aren't on the same page, things fall apart pretty quick

One thing I've learned is that I don't know if this says anything about me as a person, but I probably should not play characters that are too fanatical, especially suicidally so.

On at least two occasions, I've had the GM ask if I was trying to kill my character.

Well that's why the rules exist, to keep everyone on the same page

That's why Freeform RP is almost invariably a shitfest, in comparison

I had a power hungry character but, again, didn't get far enough to turn abusive

Most campaigns die early. RIP

There was one in particular that was a DnD 5 game, but the setting was Warhammer fantasy, but with a little bit of regular DnD stuff thrown in, like demons that weren't aligned with Chaos.

You guys ever hear of Deck Quest?

I was playing a Dwarf Slayer, because Dwarfs, fuck yeah.

I have not

Me neither.

It's a deck of cards used to kind of guide you into a PnP game. They have locations and maps and your character's personality can have a bit more flare since you are choosing a couple of cards out of a hand to use

And we encountered a demon that was bound in a summoning circle, but otherwise unattended. There were more levels between it and us than we had. I'm sure you can imagine how that went.

I've seen similar scenarios

One that went well due to fiat and party intervention, one that went hilariously poorly

There's a game I've heard of called IronSworn that has an option that allows for playing without a GM that sounds kinda similar to that.