Taking a dive

I know why I don't want to roleplay with my friend.  He created the characters. He planned them out.  They are his characters.  He just told me as much.  He creates the story and he creates the characters, he just needs me there to watch his genius unfold.

My stories are character centered.  They create the character, I provide the setting, they provide the story, they get to live out their fantasies.  Sometimes my stories are not well planned out, but people tell me they have fun.   That is the point of role playing: having fun.  Some people have forgotten that.

My friend says that he wants me to play other characters in the story to see things from their perspective, but I feel that what he really wants to do is reset the character along the path that he feels he should be going down.

I know that some players cheat.  They use dice to manipulate the way things should go in their minds, but when people start manipulating my play, tell me what I need to do, I feel like manipulating the dice against me.  I don't believe in luck, but when I see dice rolls that are always favorable I get suspicious.  I have electronic dice and when I roll there is no chance to cheat, statistically I know what is likely to happen.  Statistically I have as many good rolls as bad rols, but they seem to be at inconvenient times.  When I play with my friend I want to take a dive and see what he would do when I lose a fight.

Such is my life.  I want to take a dive.