Does you character reflect your IRL self? : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:33 am

Posted this in the wrong board, could someone lock/delete it?

I meant to put it on the Skyrim board.
Heres the right one; http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1253977-does-you-character-reflect-your-irl-self/

Heres the original text for anyone who feels like commenting on this one.

I was thinking about this on my way home from work.

I'm going to enlist in the marines when I get out of Highschool, then I plan to go into law enforcement as either a police officer or a state trooper.
I'm a huge nerd though. I don't know how to play football, I've read almost every book by R.A. Salvatore, I've been playing D&D for years, etc.

I love playing arcane casters in RPGs. Most people would think a want to be marine/cop would like warrior type characters, but they just don't appeal to me.

Do you think thats weird?

Does your IRL job/interests/etc reflect your character?

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:34 pm

Haha, if my characters were anything like me, none of them would make it out of the starting prison / dungeon. No, not even in Morrowind, I'd probably find a way to fall off the boat and drown or something.

Seriously, though, I could probably pull off being something of a light warrior-type with some training, so I guess that fits for what I have in mind for Skyrim. If you squint and tilt your head the right way, at least. <_<

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:06 pm

This belongs here. It has nothing to do with Skyrim specifically.

Personally, I do not think "playing as oneself" is roleplaying. Roleplaying, to me, is playing as someone other than myself. Viewing my own real-life personality as a "role" feels uncomfortably like Dissociative Identity Disorder to me.

So no, I roleplay and, therefore, I do not play as myself.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:40 am

I often end up subconsciously applying my moral compass to my characters.

That's about it though, I try to play as the character I created

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:45 am

My characters are not reflections of who I am. They are aspirations of who I want to be. C.S. Lewis said that we become what we pretend to be, so when I play games, I create characters with the qualities I wish I had more strongly.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:25 pm

I generally will make (usually my first) a character that's "me" in that setting. I apply my own interests, morality, etc to that character. I even try to be "true" to myself, as in I take my faults into account. After that though, then I start roleplaying.