What is your D&D playing style?

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Discover Your D&D Playing Style

Are you ready to uncover your unique Dungeons & Dragons playing style? Take our quiz to find out how you approach character creation, combat, and role-playing in the world of D&D!

Multiple choice questions
Explore your character preferences
Learn about your strengths and weaknesses

9 Questions2 MinutesCreated by RollingDragon42

What kind of character do you like to play?

Someone really powerful!

Someone with ambition! I gots things to do!

Someone with an elaborate backstory

Someone who who is fun to role-play

Someone who fits with the party

Someone who can kill things

Someone I know really well and/or have played before

I'm not too picky

What is your process when making a new character?

I have a favorite class/race/backstory that I always love to play

I want to make something that balances the party

I’ll make anything that can kill lots of stuff!

I want to really lean into my class’s strengths and maximize on those

I want something with a tragic/crazy backstory and see the DM bring it into the story

I want a character/class who has hella cool abilities!

I want a really well-fleshed out character I can roleplay with in-character

I'm not too picky

What is your backstory like?

What backstory?

Something that goes really well with my class

I like to just use one of the pre-build – keep it simple

My backstory is super elaborate!

Whatever makes me an awesome hero

I like to bring the same character to different adventures - I know this backstory inside and out

The best items/weapons are…

The ones that do the most damage/most powerful

The most useful for the particular player wielding them

The ones that make for a cool story

The ones that help really bring together a character

The ones that were well-earned

The ones I stole from the corpses of my enemies

The ones with some awesome role-play involved

Combat is…

The best part about D&D! I love seeing everyone use their cool abilities to kill a bad guy

The best part about D&D! LETS MURDER EVERYTHING

The best part about D&D! I love feeling super strong!

Really fun, but there’s other stuff too

Kinda grindy but it’s fine

Super boring. Where is the PLOT? Where is the DRAMA?

The main way I like to participate in the game

An interrogation with an NPC is going on and you are…

The one doing the interrogating. Tell me everything, dammit!

Super bored. Can I kill this guy already?

Listening intently for any useful information

Silently judging the questions being asked are really the right ones

Paying attention but so ready to murder this guy

Waiting for him to tell us where the big bad guy/legendary artifact is

In-character roleplaying…

Is really fun to watch but makes me a little nervous to do

Useful at times

Gets boring – can we fight something already?!

Amazing! I love a good story

My favorite thing to do in D&D!

Not as good as a sweet victory in combat

Best when the character with high charisma does it

"Fun" for me is...

When my character is SUPER strong/charming/powerful!

Rolling dice and killing Orcs, yo!

When I get the play the exact character I have in my head

When the DM brings my backstory into the game and gives me a chance to roleplay in it!

When the whole party fights to the best of their abilites

The game plays like an amazing story - antagonist, protagonist, tension, resolution!

I just wanna show up, hang out with my friends, and watch a cool story unfold

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