{"id":515,"date":"2015-12-07T01:27:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T01:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2016-03-11T05:42:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T05:42:59","slug":"personal-character-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2015\/12\/07\/personal-character-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Character Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around the internet, you will find many quizzes which purport to tell you which archetypical &#8216;character class&#8217; you most belong to.  As you would expect, many of these quizzes are clickbait, and even if they weren&#8217;t, it&#8217;s relatively unlikely that the authors would have taken the time to poll some &#8216;gold standard*&#8217; group of people to a statistically significant degree.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been (very slowly) taking a different tack.  The plan was to write a story written from the perspective of a character falling into each each of each of the archetypes, to see which one(s) spoke to me the most**,***.<\/p>\n<p>The first installment, &#8216;Druid&#8217; currently has two parts available here: <\/p>\n<blockquote data-secret=\"qRzdnesKC6\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2013\/06\/01\/druid\/\">Druid<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2013\/06\/01\/druid\/embed\/#?secret=qRzdnesKC6\" data-secret=\"qRzdnesKC6\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"Embedded WordPress Post\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote data-secret=\"Wj1YTfG7ZG\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2013\/06\/01\/barriers\/\">Barriers<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2013\/06\/01\/barriers\/embed\/#?secret=Wj1YTfG7ZG\" data-secret=\"Wj1YTfG7ZG\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"Embedded WordPress Post\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>*It does seem somewhat absurd to have a &#8216;gold standard&#8217; of correctness for which fictional archetype one best fits into, but what can you do?<\/p>\n<p>**The best analogy for this for me comes from the struggles of the protagonists in the Modesitt books &#8216;The Magic of Recluce&#8217; and &#8216;The Magic Engineer&#8217;, where they say things out loud and see how their internal mental map\/conscience twinges to see how true they are.  Another analogy is presented by Paul Graham here: http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/essay.html where he talks about &#8216;essays&#8217; being trying out ideas in written form to see how well they work.<\/p>\n<p>***Note that this does not get into issues of differences between what you feel as a person vs. what type of character you would play in a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around the internet, you will find many quizzes which purport to tell you which archetypical &#8216;character class&#8217; you most belong to. As you would expect, many of these quizzes are clickbait, and even if they weren&#8217;t, it&#8217;s relatively unlikely that the authors would have taken the time to poll some &#8216;gold standard*&#8217; group of people &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2015\/12\/07\/personal-character-classes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Personal Character Classes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,23,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}