BASIC INFORMATION
| 1. Your Name: | |
| 2. Your Age and Gender: | _____ Age? _____Male? _____Female? |
| 3. Your Address: |
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| 4. Phone number(s): | |
| 5. Best time to call: | |
| 6. Electronic Mail Address: | |
| 7. Can you browse HTML files? | |
| 8. Is there anyone you would rather NOT be paired with or set up against? | |
| 9. Is there someone that you simply MUST be paired with or set up against? |
HOW YOU LIKE TO PLAY
10. Many people participate in a role-playing game in different ways. Please mark the statement that matches what you generally like to do in a game:
| _____ | Standing around and watching the rest of the action. | |
| _____ | Walking around and listening in on several conversations. | |
| _____ | Interacting in character with as many others as possible. | |
| _____ | Creating at least one great moment for you and a few other players. | |
| _____ | Getting involved in as many big scenes as you can for everyone to enjoy. |
11. We've found that most people use a combination of three general approaches when role-playing a character:
The PROBLEM SOLVER wants to figure out what's going on, solve puzzles, investigate clues, follow up on plots and check off every item on his list of goals. A PROBLEM SOLVER is more likely to want to know what happened to everyone rather than reminisce about the specifics of how you ended up here.On the triangle below, mark an X where you think you fall as a player:The ACTOR wants to make things happen with his character, play to the audience, act out the dramatic scenes, have loud arguments, gesticulate wildly, and fondly reminisce old times. An ACTOR could talk for hours on just how much danger they were in before ending up here.
The ROLEPLAYER wants to identify with the character, internalizing the character's goals and acting and reacting as they would, regardless of what else might be going on. A ROLEPLAYER would react to this strange situation as their character would: a party for some, a crisis for others, and nothing out of the ordinary for the rest.
PROBLEM SOLVER /\ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ ACTOR *------------* ROLEPLAYER
| _____ | Comic Books / Graphic Novels | _____ | Current Events (Newspapers, Magazines) | ||
| _____ | Fantasy | _____ | Historical Fiction | ||
| _____ | Horror | _____ | Humor | ||
| _____ | Mystery | _____ | Microsoft Documentation | ||
| _____ | Romance | _____ | Science Fiction | ||
| _____ | Technical Manuals | _____ | Western | ||
| _____ | Other _________________________ | ||||
13. If you could play any fictional character, who would you be, and why?
14. There was an antique heirloom Ming vase, treasured, once owned by a
certain member of royalty, and an objet d'art that has been in the
family for a very long time. You don't know how it fell, but it did,
breaking into a million shards. There is NO way to fix it. Your mother is
going to kill you. How do you talk your way out of it?
15. You are rudely awakened by gunshots, earth tremors, screams, and, off in
the distance, there is some sobbing. You are terrified, confused and need to
find the path to your happy place, to your point of calm, all before you
hyperventilate yourself into an early grave. What is your happy place and
what do you do to get there?