I’m lazy and not that good at maths. As anyone ever calculated how many total archetypes you can create using the 2 choices of careers and 1 choice of origin. Just for fun and also to use has a selling point to my group. 😆👍
I’m lazy and not that good at maths.
I’m lazy and not that good at maths.
Assuming that one does not double up on careers (bad form!), that would be 10*9*10 or 900 basic combinations. The FBH material will obviously make that number quite a bit higher.
The available combinations of skills? I’d have to bust out my abacus to figure that, because the occasional doubling up between careers and origins make this a little complicated.
The question then becomes, “Is a Personality Explorer really that different from an Explorer Personality?”
900 is good enough for me thanks!
Mmmm that’s a good one
Rob Barrett Apparently not. So it’s 10C2 * 9 = 450.
AHA! Permutations, not combinations. My bad.
I mean, if you go with the idea that the order of the careers represents the sequence of character history, then the order matters, and you’re back to 900.
I did indeed do the math back when, and it came up to 450 Archetypes (Origin/Career/Career combos). But then we break it down further, because Archetypes are determined by your selection of Skills as well, since you can have two identical Origin/Career/Career combos and still have very different characters (Regimented Clandestine Military could be built as a Sapper, an Investigator, a Sniper, etc)
Within each Archetype you have 1 of 4 Origin Skills and 3 of 10 Career Skills (120 combinations), so within each Origin/Career/Career there are theoretically 480 combinations of Skills.
Obviously you start getting very similar (and kinda random) builds in that system, not to mention there will be occasional overlap in the Origin and Career choices. I’d estimate that there are roughly 5-10 noticeably distinct builds within each Archetype.
Rob Barrett wrote, “The question then becomes, ‘Is a Personality Explorer really that different from an Explorer Personality?'”
Funny, it does matter to me. It’s the difference between Kim Kardashian on a safari and Steve Irwin on a TV show. They might both (in game stats) have similar skills but there are some general perceptions about the characters, where they are coming from, and the circle of friends that they have.
Todd Zircher So the second Career is the noun being modified by the adjective of the first Career? (If I’m lining up Kim and Steve as you’ve intended)
(In my mind) yes, but it is also like past and present as part of the character’s career arc. The have access to the same skill sets but at different times.