Ragitsu

"Is that so? I would advise against listening to one of his 'tales', for they are treacherous; you are liable to slip and fall into a coma."

The sound of Monday morning. It’s here. Beware. 

Another hour or so for me...
 

Unless they are far afield from their stomping grounds and know literally no one or nothing, it will be odd to see a Player Character as a thoroughly disconnected entity. This approach - while simple - runs the risk of a creating an ever-increasing background "revealed" through play that may come across as tenuously/dubiously connected from event to event*. I can understand why certain players crank out at least a checklist if not a paragraph or two: for the sake of some preestablished consistency (e.g., "Is on good terms with Joden the baker./Has run afoul of the clergy./Born into a fisherman's family but trained as a mercenary./et cetera").
 
* Angus MacGyver comes to mind.

That falchion is a machete with a superiority complex.

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One of my favorite scenes involves Duncan being tailed by a Watcher (or was it a Hunter?) in public...and then he suddenly turns the tables on his stalker by openly following him while loudly asking the now obviously perturbed man all sorts of questions in every (European?) language he knows (i.e., French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, et cetera). During the reversal, he beams that trademark Duncan McLeod confident smile.

"Oh, I'm a monster. Perhaps you should speak to me more softly, then. Monsters are dangerous and just now kings are dying like flies."

"So you think I'm a loser? Just because I have a stinking job that I hate? A family that doesn't respect me? A whole city that curses the day I was born? Well, that may mean loser to you, but let me tell you somethin'. Every morning when I wake up, I know it's not going to get any better until I go back to sleep again. So I get up, have my watered-down Tang and still-frozen Pop-Tart, get in my car with no upholstery, no gas, and six more payments to fight traffic just for the privilege of putting cheap shoes on the cloven hooves of people like you. I'll never play football like I thought I would. I'll never know the touch of a beautiful woman. And I'll never again know the joy of driving without a bag on my head! But I'm not a loser. Because despite it all, me and every other guy who will never be what he wanted to be are still out there, being what we don't want to be 40 hours a week for life. And the fact that I haven't put a gun in my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner!"

So a few kinks to work out. Asked for Data & got Lore by mistake. 

Bactrian Devout Ancestor Worshipper Sailor and Wombat Skinner of Tobruk

Even worse, with the ease of access permitted by a wider (electronic) forum, there are non-fans with their cause-of-the-moment who..."contribute". These are folks with a passing interest in the hobby at best (even that is an extremely generous appraisal) and a knack for inflating their numbers. Folks who either cannot or will not separate fantasy from reality while they tilt at windmills and ardently attempt to convince others that they should feel guilty about chopping up orcs, gathering coin, saving princesses and whatever the **** else topic is trending in the most en vogue online article. If it's not simply a matter of individuals having precious little else to do with their time, then they are those who stand to profit - one way or another - from the faux-controversy fomented by these contrived "issues".
 
Predictably, as it gets filtered, excessively analyzed and approved through a real-world (and frequently twenty-first century Western) anthropocentric lens, tabletop gaming gets watered down a little more in the never ending quest to traverse that boundless field of eggshells.

Writers and artists have some growing concerns. Musicians . . . might have more reason to worry about AI:
 
 

Nah, dude. The older I get, the more I come to realize that "fan" input is - the overwhelming majority of the time - gar-bahge.

Huh. That is a work ethic to which I can relate.

I've gone through Basic Training, and I work in health care -- my life revolves around proper footwear!