Have you ever played in a game where your character is somebody

>>50131865
What? A player's character will always be self-insert to some degree.

>>50131865

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>>50132434
I disagree. Many characters might have some common traits with the player, but lots of players do not self-insert at all. When I RP, I ask myself "What would (character) do?" not "What would I do?"

>>50131865
Shitty self-inserts are mostly shitty because authors force things go their way. Won't happen in RPGs (unless you are DM's GF, that is).

>>50132617
I remember when I DM'd a game with my GF in it. It wasn't her first time, as another guy she'd dated previously gave her the "DM's Girlfriend" treatment and expected the same from me.

Imagine her surprise after 2 dead characters within a month. She wized up though and now she's one of my more stable players.

>>50131865
Well GURPS Banestorm indulged this, by making it a common occurence, to the point that there are entire organisations of Wizards that deal with sudden arrivals of people with futuristic knowledge. Played in a game of that where we were all "Ordinary Peasants" with nothing special about us at all. Actually we were an WWII commando group who had fallen through the cracks and slowly broke the mental conditioning.