[Forked from the Dancey Thread] RPG Playstyle Alignments

[MoogleEmpMog]

Very well. If a two-dimensional axis cannot be effectively formed from this, then so be it. I'll stick with the tried and true in this case. Thank you for your constructive analysis !

Also, GNS is tri-furcated rather than bifurcated, and therefore can't be compared to an alignment at all. I was thinking narrativism would have been on the other end, but that leaves the poor Simulationist, who clearly doesn't have to be neutral to G or N, in the lurch.

I guess I can scrap this one until I find a better model to replace it, either an existing one, or my own.

No problem.

I think you have some interesting concepts here, but you absolutely need to lose the two-dimensional axis to explore them better. Consider the 'class levels' analogy I presented earlier - it's much more constructive to rate a system or player on how tied he or it is to particular interests or goals than to try to set up dichotomies between the interests or goals.

 

[RFisher]

I have the same problem with this that I have with the threefold model. I feel like I fit smack-dab in the middle. I don't really feel I significantly lean more towards any of the poles than towards the others.

Yeah, I usually come within a point of the middle on those "are you right-brained or left-brained" tests too.

Which, I think, tends to make the distinctions being drawn less useful to me.

 

[Arkhandus]

I'm a bit confused by the Form/Content axis.....but I think I kinda get it.

I'd just be N/N (neutral on both axes).