Assassin Fixation...Psychological Discussion at Work

[nakia]

The anti-hero/outlaw is also iconic in the American mythos. He's there in the Man-with-no-name Eastwood characters, in Rambo, even in Johnny Cash songs. Although there's always consequences in Johnny Cash songs. The guy who shot a man in Reno just to watch him die (which sound like a kewl evul thing to do) is now in Folsom Prison.

Given that iconography, plus the fact that a lot of folks play the game to escape (authority, boredom, etc), it doesn't surprise me that many people gravitiate to those characters. While sometimes it's annoying to DM sometimes, most of the time I don't think it's unhealthy.

 

[Bastoche]

I think that what you're thinking about what I think could possibly inspire me to think more about how I think too much...

LOL

 

[ashockney]

Just curious????

What title company? I just recently joined one, and interesting to find there are more out there in the world...

 

[Satori]

I work for a subsidiary of Fidelity National Financial services, which owns Property Insight, Chicago Title, and some others. Property Insight is the specific branch that I work for, and it provides data systems that are brokered to Title Agents and their companies.

I essentially am the "Lord of the Plant", and filter/broker/rifle/maintain/destroy all the legal documents/starters/deeds/vellums/etc...

And you?

 

[Satori]

^attached rider

-As for Title Insurance companies down here, there are gobs.

Chicago Title (Yes, Chicago Title in San Diego), Alliance, North American, American (not the same), First American, Stewart, United, Security Union (owned by Fidelity), Fidelity, Equity, Land America, Gateway (owned by Land America), Southland, Financial, Diversified, New Century, World Brea, Benefit...

pant pant

...World, Guardian, 1st Centenniel, Commonwealth, Commerce, Southcoast, Landsafe, and on and on and on...

Dude...this is San Diego! Hottest realestate city in the world! Next to Los Angeles and Orange County, of course.

So...lets talk about assassins.

 

[JimAde]

I think a lot of people like to play their own opposites (as others have pointed out). This isn't always the case, but I recently noted that I often play suave, debonaire, hyper-competent swashbuckler types who always know just what to say.

So that's one vote for playing your opposite.

 

[Mercule]

Its always the good looking heroes that get the girl...but no one plays a good looking hero!

I almost always play characters with above average charisma -- even if they're tanks. Heros have a magnetism about them, IMO, and that's charisma.

 

[ashockney]

So...lets talk about assassins.

One of my early characters (perhaps circa 1st Edition) was a character that played off the "bounty hunter" motif. I enjoyed him because of his dark, mercanary edge. I liked being beholden to none but coin. He was fun to roleplay, and had good versatility as a character (picture fighter/rogue, probably dual class in those days). More than anything, I recall it being about respect. That was during a time (high school) where getting and maintaining such a thing was a pretty big deal, so I'm sure it was fun to build a character around that concept.

 

[RangerWickett]

I think this might be up you folks' alley.

Assassin X - a free 24-Hour RPG of cold-blooded killing, by M. Jason Parent.

 

[Woas]

I never thought assassins were cool because I learned about real assassins. Not Ninjas with the term 'assassin' tagged onto it in a stream of pop-culture garbage lingo. As in, the ones that were on drugs, would go kill someone while on said drugs, and then killed themselves afterward. They seem kinda... limiting for a character for me.