Thursday, April 26, 2012

A DMs view of MMORPG player types

Switching back and forth between discussing MMORPGs and pen & paper roleplaying games made me realize where my personal position towards the famous "Bartle types" of MMORPG players stems from. The explorer, socializer, achiever, killer quartet doesn't really exist like that in a game like Dungeons & Dragons. Or rather, certain types don't work for players and especially dungeon masters:


You can't have killer type players. There is no PvP in D&D, and killing a member of your g

World of Warkraft...

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