The Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Quiz was reasonably fun, but I like the commentary best:
As humans, we’ve evolved so that we can create all sorts of beautiful things – the Mona Lisa, Citizen Kane, Allyson Hannigan – but deep down, buried in our medulla oblongata, there’s a reptilian brain that only wants to kill and eat people. Likewise, roleplaying has changed over the years to include politics and emotional exchanges – but never forget that in the beginning, it was all about the ass-kicking.
Amen, brother, amen.
My scores are below, and holy CRAP some of them are low.
| Your Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Score |
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| Category | Your Score | Average |
| Hacklust | 24.53% Has conversations in between massacres |
52.3% |
| Sensitive Roleplaying | 8.86% There is no player. There is only…. Zuul. |
51.1% |
| GM Experience | 4.35% Worldbuilder, storyteller… Master. |
66.9% |
| Systems Knowledge | 61.02% Local rules guru |
89% |
| Livin’ La Vida Dorka | 6.9% Gaming is my life |
60.3% |
| You are 23.98% pure Average Score: 66.6% |
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YOW!
Yeah. This is somewhere on the border of ‘your Gamer-Fu is mighty’ and “seek professional help”.
I should point out that not all the things I checked are true *at this moment*… I’ve grown out of some of the hacky-goodness, for example, but I can remember when…
I thought my systems knowledge score would be lower, but they named practically every system ever made, and I can see that the average score is pretty dang high, so maybe a 60-something is low.
NOW here’s a question: when you were checking off Rules Knowledge stuff, did you think of a rules system that they hadn’t listed that you thought they should have?
I thought of three.
Five. Six. Seven.
That’s just looking at my current shelves of game stuff, not all the stuff I’ve sold over the years.
How about this: I was wondering why they hadn’t listed “Space Hulk” when they had listed Warhammer Fantasy RPG. (Then again, we played spacehulk a bit differently from most folks. MAN that’s a fun game.)
I like the “has conversations between massacres” part, And I thought that having no score above a 65% was bad…
How about you Zuul?
Yeah, their ‘hacksalot’ questions were sorta rules lawyery for me — I got no credit at all for Jacob’s impaling of 4500 of his own troops and storing their souls in jars… how inaccurate is that?
[pleads the fifth]
So somehow I’m the local games guru. Go figure.
Traveller, Gamma World, Space Opera, Ogre, the Claw/Spell/Sword Master series, the Middle Earth RPG. What really amuses me these days is working with people to whom I can say, “I was rolling for critical hits when you were still sucklin’ at yer momma’s teat.”