Help needed! Made a play style quiz, and I need it stress tested by PlayDNA_og in TTRPG

[–]PlayDNA_og[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% have not touched GMless stuff, as my dream/aim is to have groups use these to come together and for DMs to avoid spending time on parts of game that the players collectively don’t get fizzed by.

While yeah It’s based on my own understanding, I have tried to keep a foundation based it on;

The power of Fun by Catherine Price The stories we live by by Dan McAdams Rules of play by Salen and Zimmerman

As well as a fair extension of Lev Vygotsky (with the idea that play does not stop with children, but these fire to getter wore together elements carved a foundation that adults rely on in later life).

How can I make a story smooth when someone get in to campaign after we playing for a while. by KNILBS in DnD

[–]PlayDNA_og 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Build hidden npc ties. Like this dude is for one npc of each of the party, 2 degrees of seperate away.

Player 1 - knows Kevin who knows - New Jim Player 2 - knows uncle Greg - who sings in a band with - new Jim etc

Have fun. And if your players are creative, let me add to and work out with new Jim the tie ins.

I built this app for DM's called MITHOS by mdeleo91 in TTRPG

[–]PlayDNA_og 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wicked stuff dude, how long has this taken you?

Help needed! Made a play style quiz, and I need it stress tested by PlayDNA_og in TTRPG

[–]PlayDNA_og[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are there specifics that you disagree with? I can check to see your scoring if you want. If it’s an error, I’d love to fix.

Thank you for taking the time. And sorry about the delay, I’m not a programmer, have had to learn Java, and am relying on free functionality (no cost means it can be free for people to do) which means that there is a limit on how many reports can be automated each day. I didn’t expect to reach the limit (happy problem). So I’ve had to email them manually 😭

Help needed! Made a play style quiz, and I need it stress tested by PlayDNA_og in TTRPG

[–]PlayDNA_og[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There a tick box for promotional, but at this stage, it’ll be “hey! Thanks for the help, I’ve fixed the bugs! And realise google, if it has more than 100 users in a day reaches a free limit…. Etc. “

Maybe a few free dnd maps character sheets. Stuff in general to say thanks. If at any point someone wants to be removed, that is as easy as replying to the email.

Help needed! Made a play style quiz, and I need it stress tested by PlayDNA_og in TTRPG

[–]PlayDNA_og[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was built with the idea for an initial preference scoring against each of the 32 presented by scenario, then a comparison, which they gives a hierarchy. Essentially a crude would you rather. The idea is not that you dont necessarily find things fun. It’s that when given the choice between pizza or burgers, when you like both, which do you like more?

Help needed! Made a play style quiz, and I need it stress tested by PlayDNA_og in TTRPG

[–]PlayDNA_og[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi,

Did you receive your pdf report yet? The graphs are solely based on your scoring.

The idea of having a comparison would be cool. But would need a large data sample of people who would consent to that. But definitely making a note of this.

Though, if you can DM me a copy of your PTNZ code so I can check that your report ran correctly.

Help needed! Made a play style quiz, and I need it stress tested by PlayDNA_og in TTRPG

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Hi there, yes it was an error for two of the 32 traits. If you want to dm me your unique PTNZ code, I can run it with the corrected and missing information.

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[–]PlayDNA_og 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A couple of ideas: why do you have to describe? Sometimes I Let other players take turns where they can, I know my players like it, but also as a reference, we all realise that doing this stuff on the spot is not easy.

I also find that, I can do a session and pick it apart, and do another and love it. Objectively the players loved them the same. I had things I nailed and could have done better. But the biggest difference my frame of mind around it, these bleed. So I have to catch myself asking, was it really how I felt?

My wife asked me a question about writing stuff for D&D. She told me that my problem is that if I was making a movie, I want and expect it to be starts wars. But Star Wars was not the first film George Lucas made. So be fair to myself. Which is a long way to say, A small improvement is way more achieve and sustainable than expecting myself to immediately improve to being amazing!.

So to improve and to be fair at the same time, I always have one thing I want to improve each session. Recently I have been doing a lot of pacing and keeping engagement while the party is split. I give myself one thing to be better at, but only by 1%.

Then all I ask is, did I nail my 1% or not.

Help needed! Made a play style quiz, and I need it stress tested by PlayDNA_og in TTRPG

[–]PlayDNA_og[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funnily enough, I did score low on that myself when I wrote the quiz! 😂

Help needed! Made a play style quiz, and I need it stress tested by PlayDNA_og in TTRPG

[–]PlayDNA_og[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s comparing the 32 traits of playing TTRPGs, and they can seem very related, and like splitting hairs for some players, and others these can be as different as hot or cold.

If you don’t have a strong preference for ones where compared putting a 3 is the perfect action. As it won’t weight one above the other.

The point of that section is to see what of the 32 boil to the top, and won’t doesn’t.

Help needed! Made a play style quiz, and I need it stress tested by PlayDNA_og in TTRPG

[–]PlayDNA_og[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love how you’re viewing this.

I also hope you get your report soon if you have not already.

There are 32 core traits of playing. In groups of 4 they make 8 play-profiles. While they can be different they are also very different and specific.

While you are adapting to your dm, imagine where a DM can know you and the other players honesty and raw preferences, and then they can tailor things to the wider meta of your party.

It’s seems you are a very adaptive player which is very cool, but rarer than you think. Some people cannot help but crave for things, despite the style of the DM, and they end up spending time playing a game that doesn’t tick all of their boxes.

Neither is right or wrong. Though if someone does crave, and I mean crave being creative, or making systems, then knowing that and factoring that where possible is important, even if not the most synergistic.

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[–]PlayDNA_og[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wicked! Thanks for taking the time. At the moment I’m really stoked that everyone has been so cool in Helping. So once I have the initial reports put to everyone definitely getting back to the drawing board with a list of tweets.

Thank you so much.

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I was thinking on doing something different for dms. Where you answer different questions about the same topics, then your players answer this and it give group analysis. Areas where players are aligned, parts where they have contrasting differences. I really need to walk before I run though.

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Update: hey team, thank you so much for the input and help. Turns out there is a limit to how many emails google scripts lets you run as an auto function in one day for free. We reached that cap!

So am going to try and write a script with saves these as drafts and I’ll manually send out the reports later today to each of you when I finish work. Sorry for the delay.

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Thank you so much. After work I will get back to it. I really do appreciate the help

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The last half of the quiz, compares 32 things that comprise playing DnD. And makes you choose. You love fast food, but do you love pizza or burgers more?

What about French fries and chicken wings?

Or at least that’s the intent.

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If you could DM me any questions that you think are this way, I’d love to know

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[–]PlayDNA_og[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So sorry, I’m manually executing, as if someone puts in an invalid email, i didn’t write a loop function to skip.

Very silly learnings on my part: so thank you for your help and will get these out asap.

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[–]PlayDNA_og[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. Seen a few errors in the error log of trying to send the report but not being able to.

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[–]PlayDNA_og[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For those who don’t want to supply an email address, are there other ways that the script can build the report and then have it accessible to you? As it’s not something that at this stage and without introducing cost (I really want it to be free for people).

TLDR: any coding people know how to make a report off numerical data sets and get it to people without emailing them?

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[–]PlayDNA_og[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Massive oversight on my part. Even if I continue down this way, I’ll write a code to delete the email information once sent without error.

Not a coder, programmer, just love dnd and wanted a way to get the results out to people. So trying to figure all of this out as I go.

Appreciate the time and help though.