It’s your guy mutating all the time in Bioshock? Must do crazy things to a persons mind, mutating.

Oh, and Mario never does anything right because he is high on ‘magic’ mushrooms.

SoronTheBeast Posted:

In video games I just chalk it up to “my guy is dumb, crazy, or does not think about stuff all the time.”

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In a RPG type setting I try to make up good reasons, however.

thats the difference, and something i did not clarify in the OP. I will likely never play “tabletop” RPG’s ever again, and im losing interest in video games anyway. If i do i will go the “less effort” route, and just grind.

Well, video game guys are normally high on drugs anyway. You can’t expect them to make consistent choices if there brain is mutating or they are eating mushrooms or they are taking ‘healing potions.’

I also think most of them are just plain crazy. Which is why their motivation is sometimes ‘off.’

Crazy Hammer Posted:

My biggest wish is to be evil, yet I fail miserably every time.

Wow, your EXACTLY like the Neutral Good fighter I made that worshiped an evil god. That was basically the premise of the character.

I’m a narrativist, OP.

My most recently made character for a D&D was a lawful good paladin who followed the cause of “our war is good”, basically.

He believes that his country is the best in the world, and that other countries should aspire to be like his, that war is, in itself, an inherently good thing because it teaches duty and honour and advances the fields of magic. And blah, blah, blah.

And yet, because he is following a lawful cause, and because he believes it to be good, (It does teach ‘good’ lessons, good as defined in D&D), voila, a lawful good paladin who kills people in cold blood and has actually incited rebellion and civil war in countries other than his own in order for those countries to become a monarchy.

(Most recently made character for an RPG: A re-instated french sgreat times sylph ‘movie-star’ for Eclipse Phase. Maxed out moxie and fame rep, 40 savvy, (awesome attribute trait), maxed training in drama, performance, and speech, and aI bought a fleet of UFO cameras to hover around him at all times. Haven’t got a chance to play him yet. Second most recent: a Quarren terrorist in Star Wars saga. He’s a master slicer, and good with mechanics and bombs. Last game, I hacked into a security terminal, in one turn, deleted incriminating records, turned off the security droids, sent off the police, and reprogrammed the spider artillery droid to hunt down the gallery owner and kill him. This was necessary because I had bombed my way into an art gallery in order to steal a artifact from an ancient alien race. (In star wars saga, there is a slicer option that allows you to use 1 swift action to perform three terminal actions instead of 1. You can turn a standard action into a move action, and a move action into a swift action. You get one standard + one move + one swift action each turn = 3 swift actions = 9 terminal actions.)

Chawin Posted:

would you kindly play bioshock

Dude, the guys BRAIN is mutating in that, and he is all post hypnotic suggesting’y. OF COURSE he is off his rocker the whole time.

You can’t expect an crazy person to act rationally.

Additionally, http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/embed/4

SoronTheBeast edited this message on 12/14/2009 4:11PM