Playing the real life you as a PC, is it practical / possible?

[Victor Von Fausten]

Which "real world" me? Me as a physically fit young athlete with hopes, dreams and a future? Or me as an old, out of shape bitter angry alcoholic?

[Victor Von Fausten]

In all seriousness, tread carefully with this. A group that I played with in college tried this once and it didn't even survive the character generation session. All it resulted in was hurt feelings and anger at the DM when she decided that what we put as our stats did't fit and that we should lower them. It went downhill from there to the point that two of the players never returned and she quit Dming for a while because so many people were angry with her that they wouldn't play in any of her games.

[Helcack]

I don't know if I said this before, but my successful version of this was with my friends, I mean like close friends and we could make jokes and it was never really awkward(until one of the group became a partier/bro-guy) but at the time everyone was really comfortable and trusting with one another. I wouldn't suggest this with people unless you can actually criticize yourself, and accept your flaws. It was also easy as we were all very different people and had very different interests so we wouldn't play the same type of people(I tried this with a different group of friends recently and got 3 rogues and 1 bard). There are a lot of things to consider when choosing whether or not to participate.

[Victor Von Fausten]

Helcack wrote:

I don't know if I said this before, but my successful version of this was with my friends, I mean like close friends and we could make jokes and it was never really awkward(until one of the group became a partier/bro-guy) but at the time everyone was really comfortable and trusting with one another. I wouldn't suggest this with people unless you can actually criticize yourself, and accept your flaws. It was also easy as we were all very different people and had very different interests so we wouldn't play the same type of people(I tried this with a different group of friends recently and got 3 rogues and 1 bard). There are a lot of things to consider when choosing whether or not to participate.

I agree. Anyone attempting this should tread carefully. I think the main problem with the group that I tried it with was the DM. She became a bit too autocratic because she wanted everyone to basically be weak and have to run away from most of the monsters. She insisted that she was being "realistic". She forgot she was running a fantasy game.