Role Playing in RPGs with Builds

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I have been having extra fun in games where I put extra restrictions on myself, I build a character based off some idea and have rules to experience things as some character. My biggest have been from Skyrim where I have created a really large amount of different characters, including a magic only game and a mostly realistic one. Since Fallout 4 was coming out I replayed Fallout 3 and NV, where I took on the build of role playing as Samus Aran, aiming for energy weapons and power armour.

With Fallout 4 out I have already created a few. I have started my normal game where I play it like I normally would. I created Samus game where I have started to play like I think would be like. Playing as Fry from Futurama, where how I made it looked like him is a bit freaky. A Joker game where I made my character look like the Fallout version of the Joker with white splotches, where dressed in a suit and armed with pistols and fitting melee weapons, I must cause chaos. And I just started what I think is the most interesting, the realistic play through, where I play as myself.

In my realistic play through I am taking it as far as I can. I used my name, tried to get my face, tried to match what my stats might be, and try to make the decisions I would if in the situation. I have been using the Pip-Boy app in front of me where I keep track of my situation, following the times of the day I am to make my character eat proper meals, sleep, restrict all quick travel and only play on Survival. I have kept a journal at my side where I record my journey by noting events that stand out, what my character ate, and a description of what my character might have thought about the day. My current goals are to see decisions I might make in this way, where I predict what the transition might be when needing to switch over from eating pre-war food to cooking wasteland scavenged ingredients, where having functioning settlements in exploring the rest of the world.

I like this sort of character creation.