If you were a Multi-Classed Game Character what would you be?

[Jack7]

That is to say if you were to take your Real Life Experiences and Occupations and translate those (the ones you care to talk about and list anyways) what would you be?

(Following the "Classes", rather than trying to use an artificial system like level or rank I have simply put the number of years I was or have worked at being a particular thing.) I haven't listed everything I've ever done, but the ones I wanna talk about or list. I also tried to use Gaming Terms corresponding to Real Life terms.)

I would be:

Merchant/Priest/Scientist/Scribe/Sleuth


Merchant 15 (Businessman and Entrepreneur)

Priest 0 years (studied Religion and Philosophy for my first degree, but never entered seminary - but plan to be a Priest and am studying now. It will be the vocation of the latter stages of my life.)

Scientist and Inventor 35/18 (began conducting my own experiments as a teen, but did scientific work officially in some form or another most of my life )

Scribe 33 (Writer) actually I was student editor of the school newspaper in first grade, but didn't really pursue publishing my writings until I turned 15.

Sleuth 23 (Detective)

Vadder 36 (Explorer of ruins and sometimes archaeological sites or digs) - yeah I know it's not a real occupation, it's an avocation for me. But one I've pursued most of my life and my most enjoyable avocation.



What would you be, and if you want to discuss it then please feel free to do so.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Journalist 15/Webmaster 2/PR flak 2

Even one level per year already seems excessive. If I hadn't been dumb and multi-classed, I'd be tossing around Meteor Swarms around by now.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Lawyer15/Marketer6/Negotiator2/Bard38*









* Been involved in practicing one art form or another since age 6.

 

[Janx]

Programmer 28 / martial artist 10 / Guitarist 7 / Artist 5 / FPS Gamer 18 / Plumber 5 / RPGer 21

 

[tuxgeo]

(I'm going to try to translate all of this into D&D adventuring classes, if that's alright.)

Wizard/Bard/Ranger/Artificer/Cleric -- as follows:

1. Wizard ("mathemagician" specialty): umpteen years, with AAS in programming, BA in Mathematics, a year of graduate work in Accounting, and a decade spent in high tech, mostly computer reports; also ongoing for personal reasons;
2. Bard ("linguist" specialty): Yes, not "Fighter," even though my time was spent in the U. S. Army -- I was a Translator/Interpreter;
3. Ranger ("orchidist" specialty): I didn't pray to the plants as a Druid, I tended plants and harvested flowers in an "orchid range";
4. Artificer ("construction" specialty) (such a common thing to do); and
5. Cleric ("elder care" specialty): at my parents' place.

[Not listed: Scribe; because it's not a D&D adventuring class.]

Edit: Not yet worth adding: Bard ("ukulele" specialty). I'm such a rank beginner, I can't even do a B-flat chord reliably.
I attended "uketoberfest" the last three years, but am still more advanced in theory than in practice.

 

[Thunderfoot]

Bard/Priest (apostate)/Spy/Scribe 37/11/8/3

Bard - As many of you know I am a former professional musician(singer, song writer, multi-percussionist, drummer)/audio engineer/producer, I did this for so many years of my life it's pretty much my primary class.

Priest (apostate) - For about 11 years I was a minister in a Christian faith, I am now an atheist, without going into details, people suck, there are no gods.

Spy - I spent 8 years in the US Army as a non-Morse code interceptor/operator/analyst.

Scribe - I worked doing personnel and finance for the Army Dental Corps as a contractor after I got out for several years. It was work, but I hated it and I wasn't all that good at it.

 

[Jack7]

These are some interesting responses.

Kind of an interesting short-hand way of getting to know people too. I might try this technique other places too, in different ways or formats.

 

[RainOfSteel]

RPG Gamer 20 (31 years)
Apologist 12 (10 years answering e-mails for customer service.)
Programmer 6 (But thinks he is 12-15th)
Anti-Social 5 (but thinks he is 20th; borderline Asperger's syndrome.)

 

[Janx]

These are some interesting responses.

Kind of an interesting short-hand way of getting to know people too. I might try this technique other places too, in different ways or formats.

Its an interesting thread idea. I look at it less of a class thing, more of a skills thing (how many ranks in skills do you have).

Some items, # of years doesn't quite cut it. I don't practice my guitar or bass enough, so 7 years should make me better than I am.

Over the years, I've fixed a number of plumbing problems. Once you have the tools and done a few, it's pretty easy.

In software development, I've seen so many languages and technologies over so much time, that its always a learning experience and years of experience is a very accurate descriptor. A 6 year old dev cannot have learned all that I have learned, because there isn't the time to do so.

Contrast that to an argument I once heard, where at a PTA meeting an old teacher once argued her point about how something should be done because she's been teaching the same class the same way for 20 years. The shutdown to her point was, she's got 1 year of experience repeated 20 times.*

*As told to me by the guy who shut her down, he walked her into that one by asking how long she taught, what she taught, and if she taught it the same way every time.

The point being, some things more years doesn't mean much. Some things, more years means a lot.

But that's all just semantics to what the goal seems to be. How do you define yourself. What kind of experience do you bring to the table that aren't as obvious.

I've been getting paid for code for at least 20 years. That's not all I'm good at. And some of the things I can do, one might never have guessed.

I've also fixed fences, herded cows, made hay, made lumber, written speeches, written poetry, written business proposals, written business policies, written design specifications, written stories, written songs, recorded an album, played in a band in public, hunted animals, driven a car, wrecked a car, skiied down a hill with one ski without falling, demonstrated product blindfolded in front of the CEO of a Fortune 20 company, got a patent, discovered a lake, and never been arrested for anything.

Many of those things are pretty minor, but varied. I suspect we all have such experiences that make us more than we appear.

 

[Jack7]

I look at it less of a class thing, more of a skills thing

That's an interesting concept too Janx. I was phrasing the question in the form of a question associated things I thought most people on this site would naturally relate to. A Person translated roughly into a character which sort of made the people answering the question lean towards their professional experience for the most part (since that's what most game characterizations, rightly or wrongly, tend to focus upon.

However there are also a lot of other aspects to a "character" (if you can think of yourself as a character and translate that into your real experience) that could be explored in other posts. Such as your Skills, your Feats (things you have considered Great Accomplishments), etc.

So maybe, if other folks are interested, those things could be explored too.