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Old 03-27-2006, 03:06 AM   #1
Lalaith
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Werewolf and Enneagrams

I don't know how many of you are familiar with Enneagram/Myers Briggs-type personality tests, but the recent WW game got me thinking about them.
(Disclaimer - even though I've got management-type chums who swear by these tests, I personally find them a bit too formulaic. But still, the concept is kind of interesting)
The four personality preferences, as tested by this system, are explained here:
http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/tt/t...l/mb-simpl.htm
All four are relevant to Werewolf play to some extent, but I think the most important ones are 2 and 3 - how you process information and how you make decisions. Do you prefer to deal with facts (S - Sensory) or ideas (N - Intuitive)? Do you make decisions based on logic (T - Thinker) or values and personal beliefs (F - Feeler)?

Now, in the last Werewolf game, Formendacil said that his downfall was partly due to this:
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The problem, though, is that such a reputation requires Ordos around at the end of the game to speak up on your behalf, and all of our Voting Record people had died off: LMP, Spawn, TGWBS... All that was left was the Gut Feeling people (for the most part), and here I was shot.
In the same game, Valier said the following:
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I have found this game and the players in it hard to judge. I have been fairly quiet and not throwing random and strange theories out there. I normally see weird connections and plans forming around me. I usually get a feeling about someone and say 8 times out of 10 I tend to be correct at the end. I see analysis as confusing, I swear my brain does not work that way. I think the things I see about others are usually arbitrary or soft in reasoning. But this game........wow it's hard to tell.
This would, under the system, make her a very strong NF, Intuitive Feeler. Formendacil meanwhile claims, on behalf of spawn, LMP and Guy, strong ST (Sensing Thinker) tendencies. (I think he sees himself here too, am I right?) Do they agree with this assessment?

So, where are you on the spectrum and how does this effect your playing style? On tests, I'm usually a fairly strong N but quite evenly split between F and T and this is reflected in how I play, I try to steer between two poles, which often ends up in a god-awful mental shipwreck, frankly.

Of course, there are those who probably think we shouldn't even be discussing our playing styles - too much information for the enemy....
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