Thread 17786914

When was the last era of history when you could live life like it's an RPG?

>>17786914 (OP)
Today. If you really wanted to live this life you'd become a mercenary or foreign correspondence journalist. But you don't. You want to have AC and videogames and hentai.

>>17786918
I never claimed to want to, I was just curious since there aren't many set in the modern day

>>17786914 (OP)
Today. You're just playing Netrunner or Cyberpunk 2013 instead of DnD.

Go get ptsd in some pointless corporate war, then go speeding and doing drugs on the highways of the American west until you get gunned down by some rabid small-town cop. Now you're playing Netrunner.

If you say "but you'll die/be thrown in jail" rpgs are characterized by brave, risk-taking protags going on dangerous adventures.

>>17786914 (OP)
You can do this in literally any era, most people simply choose not to becauase most people prefer a house with a bed to sleep in. Next time you play an RPG like Skyrim and really pay attention to what your character does. You'll be spending most of your time out on the road fighting random NPC bandits on the road and the occasional bear attack, you'll spend most of your time either homeless or sleeping at an Inn, you'll be hording random junk to try and pawn off to shopkeepers. These are all things you can already do in real life, but its less romantic in real life because real life doesn't have game developers dropping affirmations of being what is essentially a vagrant horder everywhere all the time

>>17786930
Why make a game set in the modern day? We can literally live it, more lucrative to set up something in an era that is long past

>>17786930
>>17787088
Pic related or something like the Sims if you want something that is just "Modern Day with some RPG elements"

>>17786945
>"but you'll die/be thrown in jail"
permadeath

>>17787019
You forget that the developers programmed the game to drop valuable loot from slaying enemies and clearing dungeons.
You don't get that IRL

>>17786914 (OP)
>be roman
>horde all my money to become a money lender in the forum
>lose it all
>get my bench broken over my head
>say fuck this join the legion
>since its post marius i get my equipment paid for me
>gunna raid some virgin german pussy
>send to Londinium instead
>retire from army after doing fuck all
>mary a fat british slag
>decide to open a bread bussiness
>it becomes wildly succesful
>catch my fat british wife sleeping with the pool boy
>murder her legally for her unloyalty
>use my bread money to buy a german slave girl to marry instead

>>17786945
What limp dick RPG are you playing where permadeath isn't the SOP? Even in D&D youre fucked if the group isn't at least tenth level or has access to a million gold and a high level cleric

>>17787102
You retarded? Armies still loot. In fact they probably do it even more now because there's more shit to steal.

>>17787337
Pillage (Looting during wartime) is a warcrime, as it involves taking the property of noncombatants, and noncombatants and their families retain the right to have their property returned to them during peacetime. Unless you are refering specifically to looting fallen soldiers, which as far as I'm aware is more of a gray area, as it is often necesarry to take military equipment for self defense and soldiers who are dead are not hors de combat technically

>>17786914 (OP)

You can literally live life like that right now if you're willing to commit to a life of crime and possible prison.