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Have you Ever Played as Yourself?

Started by RPGPundit, January 26, 2018, 05:48:29 AM

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January 26, 2018, 05:48:29 AM
Have you ever run an RPG where you played yourself? Or where your players played themselves?

If so, what was it? How did it turn out?
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January 26, 2018, 08:56:59 AM
My group tried that once, people decided each other's class and stats (more or less), ended up being a cleric  with all physical stats below average

The very idea of making yourself fit a system as per stats is a high risk, as it can feel insulting if people disagree on what skills/stats one gets...

I tend to 'add a shard' of myself to some characters quite often though, some trait of personality or a skill, maybe a quirk or hobby, perhaps taste in something. I don't tell about it however.

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#2
January 26, 2018, 11:00:34 AM
Villains & Vigilantes had that as part of chargen.

Games I've seen it in are... Marvel Superheroes, Boot Hill, and Call of Cthulhu. Also seems to pop up alot in Mythic.

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#3
January 26, 2018, 01:37:10 PM
Quote from: Omega;1022057Villains & Vigilantes had that as part of chargen.

Was just coming in to mention this game in particular. So my group played a variation of themselves with superpowers. It was very Marvel-esque as we worked in the same daily-grind issues we were dealing with as teens. So if it happened to us in real life, it happened in-game as well. So I was grounded for a week due to something (can't recall), so the next time we played, I was grounded in-game when a crisis surfaced, so we had to roleplay getting me out of the house without the folks finding out so I could fight crime. We were driving our beater cars in-game. Trying to hide our secret ID from classmates. It was a hoot as it was "early issues of Spider-Man" levels of real-life meets superheroing metagaming.
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#4
January 26, 2018, 01:52:46 PM
I have never tried it, but if I ever do it would probably be with the aforementioned variant where the other players decide your stats. I think it would be more fun if you aren't statting yourself.
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#5
January 26, 2018, 04:03:44 PM
Never past the planning stages with either our "Red Dawn" scenario in the late 80s, or my more elaborate "you're on your way to Gen Con when a comet passes close by...but ZOMBIES!"
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#6
January 26, 2018, 04:08:56 PM
Yes, a number of times. It's an exercise in ego, or ego-bruising for many, because the truth is that real life is random-roll, not point-buy.
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#7
January 26, 2018, 05:04:03 PM
Yes. It was good times. I was in good shape back then not the big Chingis Khan fatass I am today. I went very well. Some of my fellow players suffered the Ego-Atomic drop... cognitive dissonance issues came front and center, and those attribute were staring them in the face with ferocity.

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#8
January 26, 2018, 05:46:19 PM
We did it with Chill 2nd edition (Mayfair Games version) back in college.  We ended up scrapping the game and making PCs when we realized trying to explain away the injuries we were receiving just didn't jive.

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#9
January 26, 2018, 06:08:35 PM
Haven't done it. However, in the unlikely even that I ever actually run Continuum, I'd seriously consider having the players play themselves.

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#10
January 26, 2018, 07:06:29 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;1022007Have you ever run an RPG where you played yourself? Or where your players played themselves?

If so, what was it? How did it turn out?

I don't know if SJGames' Killer counts. It was an interesting experiment. Would have rather played in a RL Car Wars game at the time though.

EOTB

#11
January 26, 2018, 07:21:43 PM
If I'm not DMing, all my characters start as an alt-me but grow into themselves with their experiences.  The ability to be something other than myself was never my draw to RPGs.
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#12
January 26, 2018, 07:40:36 PM
No, and these kinds of games always turn into drama fests and salt mines because people then can't separate what happens to their PC from themselves, which is the entire point of playing RPs.
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#13
January 26, 2018, 08:23:38 PM
Fantasy Flights "End of the World". Its designed for exactly that. Played several scenarios. All a blast.

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#14
January 26, 2018, 09:07:20 PM
No. Just no.
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