Your personality is the lens through which the world perceives you, and it plays a crucial role in shaping your relationships, career, and overall well-being. Building a solid personality involves intentional efforts to develop qualities such as authenticity, integrity, empathy, and resilience.
Alignment is tired, boring and essentially meaningless in 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons.
Many playing the modern game trying to replace it with personality. Wizards of the Coast tried to take major steps towards personality play with their Traits, Ideals, Bonds and Flaws system attached to backgrounds. That system uses five sentences of 5-25 words to describe the personality of the character. Alignment also exists.
Then, if the DM and/or the other players remember your TIBF and you play to it you might get advantage via Inspiration.
It’s a bulky system that requires memorizing a lot of detail that aren’t necessarily relevant to how your character is played. The Acolyte is in the SRD 5.1 CC BY. Here’s a sample of TIBF for a lawful good Acolyte.
I see omens in every event and action. The gods try to speak to us, we just need to listen.
I quote (or misquote) sacred texts and proverbs in almost every situation.
Faith. I trust that my deity will guide my actions. I have faith that if I work hard, things will go well. (Lawful)
I would die to recover an ancient relic of my faith that was lost long ago.
I am suspicious of strangers and expect the worst of them.
That’s 82 words plus two for lawful good. But really, it’s just a few. You don’t need that much detail.
Just like when you fill out that your character has brown or brown-green eyes you know there is more detail to the eyes than just that word or two. You can do this for your personality.
That Acolyte?
Faithful, Suspicious, Orderly, Erudite.
Replace the entire TIBF system with those four words. Can you memorize a few words that describe how the other characters in the party act? Absolutely! Your mind was already taking the shortcuts on the way to do so.
Then award inspiration when the character is played along their personality.
You could build your short-form personality using the official background information already provided. That’s a great start. But you could also use a list of personality traits. Here’s 638!
A character modelled off a favorite movie or TV or comic or book or video game or etc character could use their traits too.
Margot from The Magicians — sexy, strong willed, crass, loyal
Wesley from The Princess Bride — dedicated, adaptable, loving
Tasselhoff from the original Dragonlance – friendly, curious, brave, aloof
Moiraine from early Wheel of Time – determined, withdrawn, studious
Lan from early Wheel of Time – lawful, loyal, commanding
Awf, my PC in Lost Mines – persistent, exuberant, fearless
The intent with short-form personality is to reduce memorization, reward roleplaying and continue the de-emphasization of alignment in D&D.
Be generous with the Inspiration you award. Play up the personality. Just make it simpler than a system that might require 100 words when you only need three to five.
“On the whole, large differences in exploratory behavior were observed between the cichlid species, and these differences were also confirmed under laboratory conditions [...] This puts the focus back on animal behavior as driving force behind key evolutionary processes"
An image capturing a traditional campus environment. In the foreground, a South Asian female and a Black male are deeply engrossed in conversation. They are both dressed in casual college attire and are carrying backpacks. They are standing in front of a large, ivy-covered, Gothic-style building that indicates a historic academic institution. To their left is a tree with autumn-colored leaves, and students of various descents are seen in the background, busy with their own activities, symbolizing a diverse range of personalities in the college.
Major life changes can affect #personality, and the #COVID-19 #pandemic was the rare big life event that all humans shared together.
Over the course of the pandemic, people became more #conscientious, even more so in the later months of the pandemic. Also, #extraversion dropped, though it eventually stabilized, and people exhibited slightly less neuroticism, on average.
I am extremely suspicious of claims that particular #opticalIllusions reveal some aspect of your #personality. Humans are #pattenRecognition machines with tendencies for #apophenia and #pareidolia. It is in our nature to seek out patterns in noise, and to recognize faces in random data. I'd be interested in actual studies that establish a link between these phenomena, and an individual's personality, but I suspect they don't exist.
Inconsistent and very weak associations (at best) between childhood personality and general conservatism, social conservatism, and economic conservative.
🚨New paper in press @ JEPG🚨 Http://psyarxiv.com/8fkpy
Remember the paper showing that it’s specifically low-conscientious#conservatives who share fake news? It got lots of coverage. BUT it seems like that claim isn't actually true - in a new paper, we fail to replicate it in 5(!) times and also show that even the original data don't support the claim (because they look at overall sharing, not specifically at sharing of false claims).
Check out the ungated paper: "Conscientiousness does not moderate the association between political ideology and susceptibility to fake news sharing" at http://psyarxiv.com/8fkpy
Freshman year of college the dorm floor that I lived on gathered 30+ people and we all took this test together. One thing led to another and a group of us ended up joining the local munch in our town! Definitely one of my best memories and my first foray into the BDSM community.
Another looong day! But luckily my dog hung out with me outside between calls and I was able to listen to some talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/7)
First was a rapid-fire session of talks on using #AI for #medicine and #personality detection with Kaveri Thakoor, Max Topaz, and Sandra Matz at the Data Science Institute at Columbia University. While there wasn't a ton of time to get into the ethical implications of these applications, some of that is covered in the Q&A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQElXQsuPEc (2/7) #AIEthics
Procrastinated for weeks on writing a technical concept for [a system] for a client - with all the knowledge basically already in my head.
After pressure got to a point where I could barely finish it in time and ran out of anything else I should rather do and finally started working on it, I even find pleasure in getting it done! 🤔
Procrastination is a rather daily issue for me (probably the very reason why this Mastodon instance exists 😎). Yet, in our society [more specifically: in my country], I see that this issue is rarely addressed and methods and skills are not taught to deal with this.
Are you impacted by this, too? Which techniques have you found to manage it? What are your thoughts: is procrastination a symptom, a disorder, a character trait or just plain laziness?
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Your personality is the lens through which the world perceives you, and it plays a crucial role in shaping your relationships, career, and overall well-being. Building a solid personality involves intentional efforts to develop qualities such as authenticity, integrity, empathy, and resilience.
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Freshman year of college the dorm floor that I lived on gathered 30+ people and we all took this test together. One thing led to another and a group of us ended up joining the local munch in our town! Definitely one of my best memories and my first foray into the BDSM community.