My character has only a simple dream... he only wants to level-up consistently, but he finds that at the beginning he levels lightning-speed and after a certain point it's virtually impossible to raise any of his skills. He tries to relax by playing board games but the tavern's gamblers keep asking him about "the difficulty of the game - easy, medium, hard" and he wonders what kind of drugs are those people on and where he can get some... He also wonders why there is no chess in Calradia giving the fact that chess has been so, so popular lately (Queen's gambit series, twitch streamers: hikaru nakamura etc, + fun tournaments with very big streamers - Pogchamps... and also let's ignore the fact that it's a very healthy game for the brain that even has studies supporting it). My character actually prefers playing chess alone rather than play any board games that even exists in the world of Calradia anymore, which is sad because he usually loves board games and games within-games. Actually, he doesn't even want to exist in this world anymore, I think he is depressed... He once tried to besiege a settlement thinking that he found the hidden stash of the drugs which supply the immersion-breaking gamblers, only to find out he forgot to teach his men how to climb ladders... It didn't matter much, anyway, since once he started besieging a settlement every other lord on the map got instant communication delivered directly to their brain and started marching forwards to his location, and that combined with the slow building of siege equipments because there still isn't a siege dedicated skill tree, was a sad day for all. He managed to decimate 2 armies of double the empire troops because his amazingly strong army of 100-150 crossbowmen could take on almost anything without much effort, then he got bored because of the lord's x-ray vision that can see the whole map and know their settlement is besieged instantly, realizing that it's not even worth the effort to go around villages and recruit troops to try and conquer this kind of yet bland and broken world...
Ah and his name is simply Andrew, a retired adventurer. He hopes he can come out of his retirement one day and actually live a good life, maybe earn his living by playing some immersive mini-games, do some things like farming/working for his living. You know, anything BUT killing looters and abusing broken smithing and broken passive income sources. He hopes one day he won't just start his life, do a few tournaments which he can easily win from the start, then play a few board games which he can easily win for some extra coins (with no pleasure associated in playing the said games), buy a workshop, then he doesn't have to worry about money ever again. He hopes for some diversity in his playthroughs (oops I meant life), and options which yield the same kind of rewards on their paths, instead of there being one road that rules them all. That is his simple, yet ambitious dream.