User blog comment:Oof the Fist/EXPLAIN./@comment-4868902-20130321214541

Well, I usually play my soldier chars either for:


 * Wartime/military RP. I find it to be a fascinating thing to rp when done correctly (whether it is or not is a different question entirely). To me, it's not the actual fighting that makes it good- it's the perspective and all.


 * Somebody needs a roflguard for an event or w/e.

As for an assassin, I've yet to play one. I've played characters who have fit the definition once or twice, others, but that's not their entire scope or profession. They just happened to have, over the course of the year or so I played them, been asked to kill somebody for once for a reason that would work in their favour- for the record, they've tended to fail.

I don't see any real joy in killing characters off- though it sometimes seems necessary, I try my very hardest to find alternatives first while still fitting charact