Forcing Myself to Write- Day 8

I will get this question wrong unless I go about it objectively.

I have played many characters, and have a tendency of playing drastically differing roles each time I play. And this is just characters I remember playing! So, I will elect my favorite via most sessions played:

• Fox (first character I remember playing, half-elf ranger) 5? (actually, assume a question mark following all numbers except 1)
• Myself (seriously, just stating myself up as I was at the time and running like that) 36
• Fitz the Fighter (no description needed) 3
• Short Shank (halfling rogue) 2
• Taylor Jannorson (half-elf pirate rogue) 20
• Evelazaira Dua'Clarys (elf illusionist) 4
• Reno Sanchez (elf gun bunny) 2
• David Colden/Winter Waif (werewolf college student in Nome) 3
• Daniel Aether (mage, mercenary seer) 12
• Tesla, Priest of Science (human rogue) 8
• Bergerac (drow bard) 8
• Keith (just... Keith) 15
• Dr. Sigmund Kavorkian Cid (alchemist) 5
• Talon Rose (aerosmith) 3
• "Jaq" Jaquilyn Lindquist (mecha buster/assassin) 1
• Dorian the Pornomancer (drow enchanter) 1
• Sgt Robert Williams (SWAT vampire hunter) 1
• Dorugar (dwarf rogue) 3
• Azael (half-elf rogue/ranger/monk) 1
• Squishy (slime assassin) 1
• The Mokoto Brothers (a samurai and a wizard) 6
• The Fearsome Dave (engineer) 1

So it looks like just from the sheer sessions played, I am my own favorite PC.

I don't have too much of a problem with this. I am not to special, but part of the fun of games for me is creative solutions to problems, and if I can not do this with my skill set and my tools, what good am I?

I think part of the problem with "escapism fantasy" is that because people want to play someone better than themselves, they forget to improve themselves in the process. They stop learning, stop trying, and stop having their own adventures until "adventure" is just a game term to them.

Look outside! Look at the news! Look at science! The real world is fucked up and awesome. We have monsters, political intrigue, strange afflictions, explorable landscapes, weird facts of reality, and treasure everywhere. You could, right after reading this blog, go maybe five miles and pass by so many adventure hooks that if you were made conscious of each one your head would explode.

Maybe yourself sucks. That is a common complaint I hear from people who stat themselves up honestly. I used to game with a guy who had mostly 8s in all his stats except Int and Wis, which were 11 and 10. My answer is so what? Is that any worse than the thief with 5 Str who knows he could never win in a honest fight? It just forces you to think! If you, as a person, have a bunch of 8s and 7s for stats and still want to try it, you're already part bad-ass. You graduate to full bad-ass once you survive one adventure with your sucky, neck-beardy stats. And maybe that success in a game will show you your potential outside it.