Real World RPG

Your Life as a Strategic Adventure

You've always been the hero of your own story. Now, it's time to play the greatest role-playing game of all: your life. The world has long presented us with a flawed set of "character classes" defined by a broken system of control, licenses, and taxes. But what if you could choose a new class? What if you could write your own story?

This is not a metaphor; this is how we live. The Real-World RPG is our guide to escaping the old game and living in the future we want to see in our lifetimes. It's an adventure guide to help you figure out your next move, full of plans of action and resources for collaboration.

Instead of playing by the state's rules—where your character class is "taxpayer," "employee," or "citizen"—you can create your own identity, develop genuine skills, and pursue quests that actually matter. This framework makes building a free life engaging and strategic rather than overwhelming.

Create Your Character Class

The path to becoming the person you want to be is a complex quest filled with healing, remembering, dreaming, feeling lost, and then coming back again and again to what drives you. You were born into a world corrupted by prevalent lies, such as the existence of "authority over others." But the new generation is already eschewing the lie of secondary education and finding success outside the traditional system.

Yet too often, these stories are framed as succeeding despite the system, not by creating a new one. That's where the RPG framework changes everything—you're not just escaping the old game, you're actively building a new one.

Your Character Class is Unique

In this RPG, you can define your Super Role. You can be a Bard, a Rover, a Supplier, or even a Green Mage. We are fighting for what we want to see in the world. We are teachers, healers, and builders. Your character class is a unique combination of skills and interests that you discover over time.

It's a living title—a snapshot of a person who is always growing and updating their own understanding of who they are and what they are here to do. Your class isn't assigned by a degree or license—it emerges from what you actually do, what skills you develop, and what value you create.

Examples of Character Classes:

The Trader - Specializes in counter-economic exchange, connecting buyers and sellers, moving goods between markets
The Builder - Creates physical infrastructure—homes, workshops, tools—that enable freedom
The Healer - Provides medical care, emotional support, or conflict resolution without state involvement
The Teacher - Shares knowledge and skills outside institutional education
The Guardian - Provides security, trains others in self-defense, maintains protective capability
The Innovator - Develops new tools, techniques, and solutions to problems
The Connector - Builds networks, facilitates introductions, organizes gatherings
The Storyteller - Creates media, art, and narratives that spread freedom ideas

You're not limited to one class. You might be a Builder-Trader who creates furniture and sells it in grey markets. Or a Teacher-Guardian who trains people in both philosophy and self-defense. The combinations are endless, and they should reflect your actual interests and capabilities—not what some institution says you're allowed to do.

Discover Your Superpowers

In this new context, the things you can do when you are not held back by the state can be seen as superpowers. We can do things alone and in groups that are beyond our current conception of what is possible. Your powers are many, including:

Your Available Superpowers:

Uprooting: The ability to uproot and start a new life at any time. This was a challenge in the past, but with our Network, you can literally redefine your location and community whenever you choose. Geographic freedom is a superpower most people don't realize they have.
Decentralized Connection: The ability to connect with others who share common interests, no matter how far away they are, bypassing centralized platforms and surveillance. You can build genuine community across continents.
Tangible Creation: The power to produce real value with your hands and mind—to create goods, services, and solutions that people actually want without asking permission from regulators.
Broadened Mobilization and Convergence: The power to overcome the limitations of physical distance, establish multiple trade networks, and create tangible change for yourself and those you trust. You can coordinate complex activities across distributed networks.
Resilience: The power to adapt and endure. By connecting with our network, you are no longer dependent on a single source for your needs, and thus are more protected from regional supply failures and weaknesses. Redundancy is resilience.

These are not inherited traits but skills you develop by shedding the old system. Each power you master adds a new dimension to your character and makes you a formidable force in building the free world. Unlike video game characters, you're not limited by arbitrary level caps or skill trees—you can develop any capability you're willing to work for.

Tools of Innovation

We wield special tools that were inconceivable just 100 years ago, giving us an unprecedented advantage in building a new world. These aren't just gadgets; they are the fundamental tools of our revolution, making freedom more achievable than ever before.

Game-Changing Technology:

The Internet: A decentralized, global network that allows for instant communication, trade, and knowledge sharing, bypassing traditional gatekeepers. Information wants to be free—and now it can be.
Recording Devices: The power to document truth and expose coercion, ensuring that events can be witnessed and shared on a global scale. Accountability through transparency.
Encrypted Messaging: Unbreakable private communication that allows individuals and groups to organize, trade, and plan securely, without fear of surveillance. Privacy as a defensive superpower.
Mobile Vehicles: The freedom to uproot and transcend location, allowing us to build flexible, nomadic communities and establish networks in any environment. Your home can move with you.
Cryptocurrency: Money that exists outside state control, enabling truly voluntary exchange and protecting wealth from inflation and seizure.
3D Printing & Digital Fabrication: The means of production, distributed to individuals rather than concentrated in factories.

By embracing these tools and powers, you transform from a mere subject into a sovereign player in the game of life. They are the keys to unlocking a reality with limitless potential. Our ancestors fought for freedom with swords and muskets. We have exponentially more powerful tools—we just need to use them.

Choose Your Adventure Class

Whether you resonate with the flavor of medieval knights, peaceful vikings, or even futuristic steampunk explorers, you can create the reality you want. See the world as a challenge where you have more power to make a new reality than anyone did in the past.

You can be a better version of any profession. Instead of being a slave to a system, you can be a Ranger for Light. Instead of a state-sanctioned doctor, you can be a Healer. Our chosen professions have been stunted by a lack of innovation caused by the stifling of the free market, but in this RPG, every field is liberated by true communication and collaboration.

Transform Traditional Roles:

Lawyer → Arbitrator: Resolving disputes through voluntary mediation, not state courts
Police Officer → Community Guardian: Protecting people who choose your services, accountable to customers not politicians
Teacher → Mentor: Sharing knowledge without curricula mandated by bureaucrats
Doctor → Healer: Providing care based on patient needs, not insurance requirements
Accountant → Wealth Strategist: Protecting assets from state seizure through legal creativity
Journalist → Truth-Teller: Reporting without corporate or state editorial control

Create a Guild or join one to discover a new way of approaching your profession. Guilds provide the structure, mentorship, and market connections that replace state licensing—but through voluntary association and demonstrated competence rather than arbitrary credentials.

Assemble Your Super Team

What can humans really do together when we are truly free? In the old game, we were siloed and isolated. In this new game, we can assemble Super Teams to take on any challenge. The power of human collaboration is limitless when guided by consent and mutual aid.

This site is full of resources and plans of action to find your team. Think of it like forming a party in a traditional RPG—you need complementary skills, shared values, and the ability to work together under pressure.

Building Your Party:

Identify complementary skills: You need builders, traders, guardians, healers—not five people who all do the same thing
Establish shared principles: Everyone must agree on the NAP and voluntary cooperation
Start with small collaborations: Work on projects together before committing to long-term partnerships
Build trust through repeated interaction: Your team bonds through actual work, not just good intentions
Maintain clear communication: Use frameworks like the Consensual Conversation Table

If you're interested in a structured format for team-building, visit the Freedom Guard page. The Guard provides frameworks for assembling teams with specific security and preparedness focuses—but the principles apply to any collaborative effort.

The Power of Story

Tell yourself the most powerful story about who you are and what role you play in the larger story of the human race. Contextualize your past—your moments of weakness and success—as part of your character's journey.

This is not a game you just play; it's how we live. We are acting as our own best characters in the roles we want to fill in the world that we want to exist in. We are bringing the lore and the language to society, and through every interaction, we are cultivating the best possible awareness of what is possible if we all just worked together.

Your Character Arc:

Every hero's journey includes setbacks, learning, growth, and transformation. Your past mistakes aren't failures—they're part of your origin story. That job you hated? That's your "before" story, showing how you were trapped in the old game. Your current struggles? Those are your trials, developing the strength you need for later challenges.

The key is to see yourself as the protagonist actively writing your story, not a background character in someone else's narrative. You're not waiting for the world to change—you're the person making it change.

Frame your life as an ongoing adventure with clear objectives, meaningful challenges, and real stakes. When you approach freedom-building this way, it stops being abstract philosophy and becomes an engaging quest with tangible progress markers.

Positive Self-Programming

This guide is designed for self-owned individuals—everyone, really. Take only what you can use and discard the rest. The only rule is the Non-Aggression Principle, which will protect you in the unsteady waters of a statist world.

By adhering to it, you are making a commitment to harm none with your actions. This is how you stay in character and build a world based on consent, not coercion. The NAP isn't a limitation on your power—it's the foundation of sustainable power. Force creates enemies; voluntary cooperation creates allies.

Use this RPG framework to:

Set clear objectives: What's your next quest? What skill are you developing? What problem are you solving?
Track your progress: Level up by mastering skills, building relationships, completing projects
Celebrate victories: Acknowledge when you accomplish something meaningful
Learn from defeats: Every setback teaches you something useful for the next challenge
Find your party: Connect with others pursuing complementary quests
Stay in character: Act according to your values, not in reaction to the old system

Continue Your Journey

Ready to learn the specific economic tactics that make this sustainable? Read Agorist Tactics for counter-economic strategies.

Interested in mobile living as part of your adventure? Explore Nomadic Markets & Caravans to see how traveling communities work.

Want to find your party? Visit The Adventurer's Hall to connect with other players in this real-world game.