How do I win a roleplaying game?
Well, since the GM is making the rules of the game, you have to ask the GM how he determines the winner. Most GMs don’t bother to declare winners. The reason people play RPGs is not to win, but to participate, and to briefly escape reality. This implies that RPGs are not really games. RPGs have rules, but often no stated objective other than to just ‘have fun’. The ‘game’ is left open-ended, ending whenever the GM and/or the group decides it is time to end it and move on to something else. Some players say that if a character is ‘still alive’ when the group decides to end things, then the person playing that character has ‘won’. Maybe the best way to look at it is to consider yourself a winner if you had fun.
