What would you do if it would work?

Most people are just NPCs

Now, it is a sad fact that I can’t build an armada of antigravity ships to throw the yoke of the Satanists off, possibly the alien overlords preventing us from leaving this prison planet, and go forth into the Galaxy to explore; but if I could, that is what I would work towards.

That said, almost all of the effort people spend in their day is a kind of “waiting to die” stretched out in the waiting room of life.

Because I could never live that way I have probably done more and seen more places and explored different concepts, women, and life choices, than most men do in a lifetime.

I don’t tell you this to brag, merely to point it out to those timid souls who never took any risk at all. Not because they were content, but because they are afraid.

I met a man once who’d been a waiter and then a head waiter all his life. He was in his sixties, and he was an absolute master of service at the restaurant where I ate in Venice. He was never invasive, and just as you had started to think of the next course, or a drink, he would magically appear, like a servile batman, presenting you options in silence if you are the type to not want to hear a bunch of things, and with reserved and joyful professionalism if you asked more details. He was so good at this he made the whole dining experience twice as good. I spent some time talking to him and he had lived all his life in Venice, never even left the city, and he was perfectly content with that.

I respect such people deeply. Perhaps they are in fact better people, or at least more balanced people. Not too long ago, most humans lived in similar ways.

In Dungeons and Dragons parlance, such people are the background NPCs of every town and village that you, as PC “Adventurer”, go through.

And it is pretty much that way in real life. Most people are NPCs.

Objectively speaking, it can absolutely be said I am certainly a PC in comparison. With all that goes with it. The fighting of various “monsters”, life-threatening, and life-affirming adventures, and situations, and all in between.

Certainly I have travelled a great deal, seen many different countries, peoples, and cultures, and learned many different skills.

In D&D parlance, I absolutely got enough “experience points” to level up to something beyond 10th level, which is the general term for a “Lord” or master of his craft. And I think it’s fair to say I did it in a couple of “classes” too, starting out with a warrior monk type (Monk I guess in the original D&D Cyclopedia) and then, somewhere along the line picked up fighter/paladin for the Catholic religion. The true almost lost one, not the mainstream corrupted one. And while in AD&D terms I would not fit the Lawful Good alignment requirement for a Paladin, I do in the original D&D, as it limited itself to Lawful, Neutral or Chaotic, and in that respect I would certainly fall into the Lawful category.

Now, I wonder reader, what would YOU look like translated into a D&D equivalent type of character?¹

Are you just marking time to the grave?

Are you obsessed with what politician is doing what? Or what new bullshit wordage to try and normalise degeneracy and Chaos the powers that be are trying to hammer into your head via the spells regurgitated by the TV?

Are you, in short, in thrall of the evil overlord that have cast a gigantic, recurring spell of “glamour over substance” on the entire planet?

One of the 8 billion NPCs?

Or have you decided, that come what may, you will fight, you will ignore the lies, the force they will try to bend you with, the absurd rules they will try to impose on you and your loved ones to make you their slaves?

Are you, in short, an NPC?

If you are content, that is fine, but if you are not… well… what are you waiting for?

Start thinking and doing those things that actually MATTER to you.

1. For the nerds, you have: Main Class (Possible Sub-class), so: Mage (Illusionist), Cleric (Druid), Fighter (Paladin, Ranger), Monk, Thief (Scout, Assassin). There is also a mostly NPC class called Alchemist, not too exciting as they spend all their time mixing various ingredients to create poisons, and other elixirs.