Sacrificing Self: How Far are YOU willing to go?

Let me start this off by saying this isn't a self-help post.  I really don't think that I am in any situation to give personal advice to anyone about shit like that and I highly doubt anyone would want to listen to it.  (Don't get me wrong, I can listen to problems and give my opinion, but really not advice enough to warrant a self-help blog).  This is mostly about character motivations in games.  What is your character willing to live for, die for, or kill for?  How far will you go to complete what you are wanting to do.  I think whether or not you admit it, every character has these questions that you have to ask yourself as the player (albeit they don't have to be exactly hammered out and can just be a floating idea) in order to figure out what to do in certain situations.  In my Star Wars game and in a new game (WOD-World of Darkness) that I am playing, I have recently found myself needing to answer these questions; so let's dive right in shall we?

First, the Star Wars games:  as I have mentioned previously, my character in this game is basically a Sith Hunter who just found out that her Jedi Master that she thought was dead is really alive and a Sith Lord, as is her fellow apprentice who is turning to the darkside.  Throughout the whole game so far we have been dealing with the fallout of Order 66 and she has been trying to connect with the other apprentice the whole time.  Finally she does and figures out where they are and then the whole group is captured by Sith, where she thinks she has finally found him.  Turns out him and part of the party is forever away in the Hutt region of space and so after hijacking a small customized star destoryer, her and her companions travel out to rescue their comrades.  That's not completely the end of the story, but I am going to tie it all in at the end-just trust me.

Second is the WOD game that I just played last night.  This is my first time playing in this world and completely new system and I was not disappointed.  The whole thing with WOD is that the darkness and horrors of what lives in your nightmares is actually real and can/will murder the fuck out you.  My character is a dude-but really feels like probably playing the closest to myself as I have in a long while (no I am not a dude, just personality wise there are some close similarities). Anyway, we started the game out as humans and then through a brutal and vicious werewolf attack, my character is killed and then turned into a vampire.  We haven't really delved too much more into that world, but already from what I have played, it is very clear that the game focuses how you change the world, how what happens changes you, and to what extremes are you willing to go to get what you want.

So this leads me back to the title of my post.  As a player I am finding myself needing to answer the questions of what will my characters do?  How far will they go?  What will their motivations be? Tough questions my friend, tough questions.  But I think that in doing so it will make for stronger characters and hopefully give me a bit more direction and firm groundings in the decisions I make for my characters.

PS. I am going to apologize for the overall theme of this post.  One it took me pretty much all day to finish, so if it doesn't make sense-keep that to yourself sass pants, I would like to see you do better.  Two, this isn't particularly a super fun post, but something that I was thinking about since I have some fairly "serious" (for my characters at least) shit that has happened in recent games.  I promise though next time it will be better....you my readers are my motivation. :)