Kenshi is a really great game. Bug people, Ninjas, a Post-Apocalypse setting, it has everything I like.
The world's story is what you make of it.

>You can be the Zero To Hero who vanquishes oppression and makes everyone's lives in a better place.

>Or you can be the Conqueror who eliminates the city-states who are getting in your way.

>You can be a simple farmer, living on his own with his dog companion and just trying to get by.

>You can start out as a slave, make friends in your mining prison, and work with them to escape your fate. and then later come back stronger, and liberate the oppressed (or friends) that you had to leave behind.

My favorite roleplaying scenario is the Slave Start.
Having to try and make a plan to escape a slave-town in the isolated mountains is hard but very rewarding. Sometimes everyone makes it out alive, sometimes your companions die, sometimes they lose a limb (or multiple) and you told them that "nobody gets left behind" and so you carry them on your back trying to run through a gate full of armed guards who may very well chop off your own limbs and prevent you from ever escaping again...but that is the price you are willing to pay in the name of friendship.
Just because the world is uncaring doesn't mean that you have to be. Forge your own path, and show the world that people are stronger together.

Kenshi is a really great game. Bug people, Ninjas, a Post-Apocalypse setting, it has everything I like. The world's story is what you make of it. >You can be the Zero To Hero who vanquishes oppression and makes everyone's lives in a better place. >Or you can be the Conqueror who eliminates the city-states who are getting in your way. >You can be a simple farmer, living on his own with his dog companion and just trying to get by. >You can start out as a slave, make friends in your mining prison, and work with them to escape your fate. and then later come back stronger, and liberate the oppressed (or friends) that you had to leave behind. My favorite roleplaying scenario is the Slave Start. Having to try and make a plan to escape a slave-town in the isolated mountains is hard but very rewarding. Sometimes everyone makes it out alive, sometimes your companions die, sometimes they lose a limb (or multiple) and you told them that "nobody gets left behind" and so you carry them on your back trying to run through a gate full of armed guards who may very well chop off your own limbs and prevent you from ever escaping again...but that is the price you are willing to pay in the name of friendship. Just because the world is uncaring doesn't mean that you have to be. Forge your own path, and show the world that people are stronger together.