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CarlCravens
Carl D Cravens

Mon

Dec 19
2005

22:28

Myers-Briggs and roleplaying

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Karen J. Cravens wrote:

> I'm always of mixed feelings about MBTI; everyone seems to say "Oh, that's
> ME to a T!" exactly the same way they do about a horoscope sign.

What's funny is that after several years of becoming less shy and more 
extroverted, I took the test a year ago and _still_ scored almost 100% 
introverted.  Which still makes sense... I can _be_ outgoing, but it 
takes a lot out of me.  I don't like crowds and I recharge by being 
alo

> Now, me, I'm about as wishy-washy as can be... I score INFP fairly
> reliably (sometimes INTP) but always marginally.  I'm introspective but

I'm a pretty strong INTJ, with the J/P division being the closest to 
center.

I've thought a bit about the typical Forgeite game designer and the 
people in my own group, and I bet you'd find some rather clear 
divisions between them and us.

It's interesting... Judging vs Perceiving.  I'm trying to play very 
freeform, without very many rules... but I'm primarily Judging, which 
implies that I prefer clear-cut rules.  I think my players would 
probably agree with this... I try to GM fiat some bit of combat and my 
natural tendency is to run through the rules in my head anyway.

I don't have any characters to analyze at the moment, except for NPC's 
that I'm not going to talk about in front of my players. :)

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