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Anaraxes · 02-13-2015, 09:12 PM

Power Gamer: 42%
Butt-Kicker: 38%
Tactician: 79%
Specialist: 17%
Method Actor: 50%
Storyteller: 67%
Casual Gamer: 38%

Method Actor seems a little high. I suspect this comes from questions related to this sentence from Laws' definition: "He may believe that it’s creatively important to establish a radically different character each time out." I like the variety, but not because it's "creatively important", just fun to get out of a rut. I don't consider myself a strong roleplayer or actor, and I'm happy to keep the "game" in "RPG", so "preferring sessions in which the dice never come out of their bags" wouldn't really be true. Enjoy on occasion, yes; as a steady diet, probably not.

Don't psychologists often develop these kinds of tests backwards? That is, rather than construct questions according to some theory, they give a bunch of sample questions to various people whose personalities they determine by other means (interviews, etc), and then look for correlations in the question set.

02-13-2015, 09:12 PM	#29
Anaraxes Join Date: Sep 2007	Re: Robin D. Laws Player Types Quiz Power Gamer: 42% Butt-Kicker: 38% Tactician: 79% Specialist: 17% Method Actor: 50% Storyteller: 67% Casual Gamer: 38% Method Actor seems a little high. I suspect this comes from questions related to this sentence from Laws' definition: "He may believe that it’s creatively important to establish a radically different character each time out." I like the variety, but not because it's "creatively important", just fun to get out of a rut. I don't consider myself a strong roleplayer or actor, and I'm happy to keep the "game" in "RPG", so "preferring sessions in which the dice never come out of their bags" wouldn't really be true. Enjoy on occasion, yes; as a steady diet, probably not. Don't psychologists often develop these kinds of tests backwards? That is, rather than construct questions according to some theory, they give a bunch of sample questions to various people whose personalities they determine by other means (interviews, etc), and then look for correlations in the question set.