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My first character was a barbarian who despised magic and made a point to tell every mage in existence that they are bad and should feel bad.
My second character was a grave robber who accidentally unearthed a cursed slab and refused to return it to the owner, resulting in an ancient mummy cursing him. He became a Warlock against his will and made it a point to become strong enough to kill his Patron.
My third character is a normal ass dude who got involved in a situation much bigger than himself. Currently dead set on killing the gods because they suck at governing the world. Also hates magic and refuses to use magical items that require attunement.
My fourth character is a pacifist orc who's been dead for thousands of years, resurrected by an evil necromancer to do his bidding. The necromancer botched up the ritual and the orc came back with his free will, but unable to die (much to his grievance).
I guess my therapist would tell me that I hate magic and magicians?
I mean I'd imagine they'd say that a common theme with your character's is valid misgrievances with authority, especially perceived as incompetent and evil — hence deserving of retribution for disrespecting your character's natural peace.
At the very least, a therapist would identify whether you generally perceive threats/issues as internal or external - or your PCs have ultimately external threats and want to rectify that while other people's PC (like my own) usually have internally-derived
I appreciate the effort, but I was being sarcastic, I don't need my DnD habits psychoanalyzed lol
I mean, it's DnD. Fighting evil authority/authoritarian figures, be it liches, tyrants, evil dragons or whatever, is a very common trope. Same with external factors disrupting a character's peace - it's, like, half the origin stories of any fantasy character out there.
People can absolutely imbue parts of themselves in their characters and their backstory (I've read tons of stories of closeted trans people playing characters with a different gender from theirs, for example), but it's not an exact science. In my case, I just like playing buff dudes and ~~bullying the nerds~~ bonking the squishy casters.
Case on point: my first two characters were neutral and chaotic evil, respectively, yet I'm literally unable to kill a fly in real life. My third character was lawful good and the fourth one is a pacifist. I just like roleplaying as different characters with differing motivations and testing out new classes in the process. Do they reflect my interests? Of course they do. Do they reflect me specifically? Hardly so, unless you squint really hard to find similarities - but I suspect people sometimes try too hard to find patterns where there isn't one.