Making a political-compass style test for D&D character alignments
March 28, 2017 11:32 AM Subscribe
I'm looking for some way to make a D&D style character alignment test (lawful good, chaotic evil, etc) that lays out the results of the test similar to the 2-axis political spectrum/compass test, with the two axis being law-chaos and good-evil. I'm having trouble figuring out a way to do this.
My nerd friends and I are interested in making a test/quiz like this for our game, and usually we use the bog standard D&D alignment test that gives you one answer (e.g. Chaotic good). But we're interested in seeing where our characters fall on a 2 axis spectrum. I would have thought this is a thing that already exists, but surprisingly it isn't.
How can we make this test? Ideally we'd like something that one could click through a series of typical alignment questions, and end up getting either a chart at the end, or if not that, a percentage on a good-evil law-chaos spectrum.
(for clarification, the political compass i'm talking about is like the one here)
My nerd friends and I are interested in making a test/quiz like this for our game, and usually we use the bog standard D&D alignment test that gives you one answer (e.g. Chaotic good). But we're interested in seeing where our characters fall on a 2 axis spectrum. I would have thought this is a thing that already exists, but surprisingly it isn't.
How can we make this test? Ideally we'd like something that one could click through a series of typical alignment questions, and end up getting either a chart at the end, or if not that, a percentage on a good-evil law-chaos spectrum.
(for clarification, the political compass i'm talking about is like the one here)
Are you looking to write this yourself, or are you asking if someone can recommend a quizzing platform that supports multiple scales?
If the former, you just keep two scores, one score for the good/evil scale and one score for the chaotic/lawful scale. Both start at 0 and you add or subtract depending on their answers. For example, let's say you ask:
I believe it's important to follow the law.
A "yes" may add 1 to the "lawful" score but not affect the good/evil score. A "no" would subtract 1 from the "lawful" score.
Each of their scores will translate to a word, like if they score less than -1 on the lawful scale, they may be chaotic, a score of -1 to 1 may be neutral, and a score greater than one may be lawful. These ranges would depend on how many questions you have. You would translate both scores to words and then just stick them together, like "lawful good."
posted by beyond_pink at 11:39 AM on March 28, 2017
If the former, you just keep two scores, one score for the good/evil scale and one score for the chaotic/lawful scale. Both start at 0 and you add or subtract depending on their answers. For example, let's say you ask:
I believe it's important to follow the law.
A "yes" may add 1 to the "lawful" score but not affect the good/evil score. A "no" would subtract 1 from the "lawful" score.
Each of their scores will translate to a word, like if they score less than -1 on the lawful scale, they may be chaotic, a score of -1 to 1 may be neutral, and a score greater than one may be lawful. These ranges would depend on how many questions you have. You would translate both scores to words and then just stick them together, like "lawful good."
posted by beyond_pink at 11:39 AM on March 28, 2017
Response by poster: To clarify, we're more looking for a quizzing platform. We might just have to do the self-scoring thing, but its more a last resort.
posted by Orca at 11:47 AM on March 28, 2017
posted by Orca at 11:47 AM on March 28, 2017
Are you comfortable with JavaScript/HTML? Because I recently made something that does exactly this (turns Likert questions into a 2x2 (or multidimensional scoring system)), but it outputs your results as a text score. It would take an hour of work to do exactly what you say - if you're interested, please message me.
posted by suedehead at 12:11 PM on March 28, 2017
posted by suedehead at 12:11 PM on March 28, 2017
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posted by GuyZero at 11:39 AM on March 28, 2017