TTRPG Archetype Quiz

This quiz was created with the intention of helping people discover and analyze how they interact with Table Top Role-Playing Games. The results of this quiz are meant to help you discover what your preferred play style is.

While lots of people like to play TTRPGs, not everyone engages with the game in the same way, and this can cause tension in TTRPG groups. With the results of this quiz, we hope people can figure out how they like to play so they can find people they can have fun playing with.

Created by: The Sams

Which pillar of TTRPGs do you enjoy the most?
- Combat
- Roleplay
- Exploration
- All of them
How do you approach Combat?
- I go all out and enter a combat encounter as often as possible.
- I’ll engage in combat when it seems necessary.
- I avoid combat if possible and try to resolve things through other methods.
- I try to come up with insane schemes to end combat as weirdly as possible.
How do you approach Roleplay?
- I go all out and engage in roleplay as often as possible.
- I’ll engage in roleplay when it seems necessary,
- I avoid roleplay if possible and try to fight my way through instead.
- I try to come up with odd things to say to throw everyone off guard.
How do you approach Exploration?
- I like to explore as many things as possible and experiment with the game.
- I’ll explore when it seems like the right thing to do to progress the game.
- I prefer to be railroaded or just do what my party tells me to do.
- I try to push things as far as possible and as crazy as possible.
What type of character do you like to play?
- Someone just like me.
- Someone powerful.
- Someone tragic.
- Someone dramatic.
- Someone who can mess things up.
- Someone with a complex psyche.
- Someone helpful to the rest of the party.
- Someone who’s nothing like me.
How often do you make new characters?
- All the time. I love making new characters and writing backstories for them.
- Pretty often. I like thinking about new characters now and then but I don’t always fill out a character sheet for them.
- Only when my current character dies or a new campaign starts.
- Not often. If I can I try to reuse my past character(s).
- As little as possible. I only like to play one specific character,
How do you approach making a new character?
- I go all out. I write up a backstory, draw or commission art of my character, come up with a unique voice, and if I can I get a prop to represent my character.
- I get invested in my character and think out a lot of their personality, but I don’t invest too much time or money into them.
- I fill out everything on the character sheet to the best of my ability.
- I don’t think about my character too much and just fill out the essentials on the character sheet.
- I try to keep my characters relatively similar to the ones I’ve played before with slight changes here and there.
- I hope my group doesn’t notice I’m using the exact same character sheet as last time.
What is your weapon of choice?
- The weapon with the highest amount of potential damage I can have.
- My words and charisma.
- Using the rules of the game to my advantage.
- My dark and brooding nature.
- The power of my party when we work together as one.
- My extensive list of backup characters if my current character is no longer useful.
- The craziest and most destructive item the Game Master will let me have.
- Whatever is most useful given the situation.
How do you like your campaigns to be run?
- I like to be railroaded and given set directions.
- I like to explore with little to no direction.
- I like some direction but I also want to be free to make decisions.
- It doesn’t really matter to me, as long as everyone else has fun.
What is your goal while playing TTRPGs?
- To kill as many things as possible.
- To explore the psyche of my character(s).
- To experience as much as possible.
- To break the game.
- To have fun with my friends.
- To play my favorite character archetype.
- To win.
- To play the game as it was made to be played.
How do you feel about the written rules of TTRPGs?
- I like to follow them as closely as possible
- I prefer “Rule of Cool”
- I think the rules get in the way
- I think they’re helpful, but can be bent here and there
How do you feel about consequences for your actions in the game?
- I don’t want consequences, just action.
- I like there to be proper action and reaction, but nothing too serious.
- If the book says there are consequences, I want those consequences no matter how bad they are.
- It doesn’t really matter to me as long as everyone has fun.
What is your go to method when dealing with NPCs (not enemies)?
- I resolve things through words and non-threatening actions.
- I intimidate them into getting what I want.
- If they’re in my way, I kill them, no questions asked.
- I don’t care about NPCs, I’m just here to break things.
- I confer with my group first before doing anything.
- I do whatever I think is the right move to progress the plot forward.
How important is making sure everyone at the table is having fun to you?
- Very important. If someone isn’t having fun adjustments must be made.
- Important. I want everyone to have a good time.
- Neutral. As long as everyone is getting along that’s what matters.
- Not important. I’m more worried about my fun than someone else’s.
- Not important at all. I don’t care if anyone else is having fun as long as I am.
How do you interact with your Game Master?
- I go along with whatever they throw at me.
- I work with them to try to make the game as engaging as possible.
- I try to guess at what they’re plotting so I can make the best possible move.
- I purposefully try to ruin whatever they have set up.
How do you interact with your fellow players?
- I work together with the group to make sure everyone achieves their goals.
- I roleplay with them a lot to learn more about their characters.
- I analyze their characters and plan around everyone’s abilities.
- I mess with them to amuse myself.
How do you interact with the game itself?
- I play the game as it was intended to be played.
- I min/max the game to achieve the best possible outcome.
- I go with whatever everyone else feels like doing with the game.
- I push the game to its limits to see what is possible.
- I break the game to entertain myself.
One of your fellow players has been cursed and turned into a worm. What do you do?
- Laugh.
- Double check and see if there’s a spell or ability that even lets someone do that.
- Avenge my fellow player by killing the person who did this to them.
- Try to reason with the person who cursed them into removing the curse.
- Offer emotional support to my now worm friend.
- Ask them if they’d like help reworking their character sheet to fit their new worm form.
- Torment them. They’re a worm and powerless against me now.
- Do what I think my favorite character would do if they saw a worm.
A bully has stolen your sweet roll. What do you do?
- Convince them to give it back.
- Take the sweet roll back by force.
- Add this event to my list of reasons why I can’t trust anyone.
- Use the power of the law to have them punished for thievery.
- Seek revenge against them through a long and complicated plan.
- Let them keep it, they probably need it more.
- If the bully is not important to the narrative, I ignore them.
- Do what I think my favorite character would do.
You see a creature minding their business. What do you do?
- Move on. They’re minding their business, I’ll mind mine.
- Interact with the creature to learn more about them.
- Slay them.
- If the creature is dark and brooding, sympathize with them.
- Kidnap the creature for later schemes.
- If the creature is good, befriend them. If the creature is evil, attack them.
- Ask my party for guidance.
- DO what I think my favorite character would do.
You are participating in a talent show. What do you do?
- Entertain the judges with my superb acting skill.
- Perform tricks that my character specializes in.
- Kill the competition and the judges to win by default.
- Use the rules of the talent show to my advantage to secure victory.
- Leave. I don’t want to be on stage.
- I do my best.
- Engage in antics that border the line between a show and criminal activity.
- Do what I think my favorite character would do.
An ancient being has recruited you to start a cult in their name. What do you do?
- Decline the offer, I’m not the leading type.
- Use their power to start a cult in my name instead.
- Accept the offer but use their power to commit wild antics instead of starting a cult.
- Accept the offer and become the best cult leader.
- Accept the offer and become the most evil cult leader.
- If accepting the offer would progress the plot in the right direction, I accept.
- Confer with my party if leading a cult would be a good idea.
- Do what I think my favorite character would do.
Your sibling has been eaten by a dragon. What do you do?
- Slay the dragon and save my sibling.
- Convince the dragon to puke my sibling back up.
- Nothing. My sibling betrayed me in the past. They get what they deserve.
- Cry.
- Come up with a whacky scheme that doesn’t even involve the dragon to get my sibling back.
- Prepare their funeral.
- Weigh the scales of who was more evil, the dragon or my sibling, and move from there.
- Do what I think my favorite character would do.
You have been bestowed great power. What do you do?
- Act with great responsibility.
- Act with great irresponsibility.
- Destroy everything.
- Save everything.
- Confer with my party on how I should use my power.
If at first you don’t succeed…
- Try, try again.
- Find out why. Negotiate relentlessly.
- Give up.
- Destroy whatever is in my way.
- Forge your own path.
- Get distracted with an entirely new goal.

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