Saturday, February 15, 2014

Are you a power gamer or story teller? 1-10

        Power gamer, min/maxer, whatever you wanna call it, there exists a desire in some to make their character the strongest they can be within the framework of a game. I myself have fretted over single points within a character creation. Would it be better here or there?
        Power gamers tend to relish extremely difficult tactical combat to push their character's, and their skills to the limits. Achievement is usually measured in blood, assuming the target bleeds .... This is one end of a spectrum.
        Story tellers, the drama players, are the other end of the spectrum. Character creation is more about a compelling back story rife with quandary and dilemma. Every skill or stat needs to meaningfully reflect the character.
        The story teller usually finds combat tedious. Combat gets in the way or the story, of the role playing. Achievement  is harder to quantify, a sociological achievement rendered vicariously through their character, unfolding the character in a slow, dramatic fashion until they come to fruition or burn out in a blaze of glory.
        Now these are examples of two very
generalized extremes of a spectrum, based on what I've interpreted. Essentially, it's like, my opinion man. It does seem to be a little tribal at times too, people settle into one camp or another. Am I alone in the middle?
        If this spectrum were to be measured in an overly simplistic scale of 1 to 10, 1 being power gamer and 10 being story teller. Where do you think you would fall?

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