Another Finn here. I got into RPG's a couple of years back, and was looking for a campaign to join. Found this American guy running a campaign here in the Helsinki area, decided to join. Was pretty fun, and ended up being both a great annoyance to our DM, as well as one of many guinea pigs for his little RPG project, some of you may know it, it's called Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy Role Playing. Jim probably still has a stack of my old character sheets where I decided that the old "Death or Glory (or mild amusement)" saying was a good way to go forward. So basically, I was always the expendable one.
Oh, and these days I play in a WH40K campaign as a slick and smooth talking neo-mafioso. The GM always feels outraged these days when I manage to swindle his NPC's belongings from them.