Expedition: general discussions.

"The GM does what he wants, and your job is to 'swallow' it and ask for more."

That's how any non-computer role-playing game works. Except that in a live game, you can jump out of your chair and punch the GM in the face, but that's unlikely to improve anyone's mood.

I agree. But here's the thing... Ericka was conceived based on 3 main principles:

You have to suffer for principles, what can you say. How many meme paladins have we had who died because they couldn't back down, self-assuredly aggressive Tsukiks who, on the contrary, drowned out other players and proud people who didn't want to kiss boots, and what? Nothing, the stories turned out to be fun, they raised the dynamics of the game, and the memes were recorded in the library.

So, what do we have.

Randomness. In Airisufire, we were let off easy for that, but someone like Ericka would be on easy street. In the next one, only Skryms will get easy drops, etc. Obsessing over numbers is a dead end: either you'll ruin your role-playing, or you'll be chronically frustrated by every setback. And in general, envy is a deadly sin.

In short, my character "didn't fit into the world." So what am I doing there?

Creating a new one? Nebok is making Nisha for the umpteenth time and, after all the beatings, he doesn't lose hope. And if you create different characters, the chances of success generally tend towards one hundred. You can even start with a meme origin with severe penalties, lose all characters except one, side with an unpopular GM faction, and win.

In AA...

Yeah, right... A couple of people complained, and that's it. Emotions are running high, we're more worried about the characters than about ourselves.
That's the whole point.

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In Cerberia, I listened to the hysteria about one missed event with abilities for the players and listened to how the GM's character was a bitch for stealing the players' spotlight, even though she wasn't making any decisions and was basically just existing. The GM allowed himself to role-play a character, what a scoundrel.

She was really annoying, but not because of the numbers. Feel like an actor who played a nasty villain so well that now he's being hated in real life - essentially, you can't praise the role-playing any more.