Low conflict, Strategic, Grounded, and Independent.
Totally me. I play co-op games almost exclusively, and love strategic puzzle-solving games where we work together towards a common goal.
This is interesting because we were just having this discussion on our last game night. We had brought a new player into the fold and we were describing our personalities.
Jay - The rules maven. Never lets a rule or technicality slip by. He's the one that will stop the game in order to look up a question on BGG. Also fiercely independent. Loves co-op, but never lets the consensus of the table persuade him. Brilliantly strategic and smart player, though, so he's usually right.
Terry - The eternal pessimist. Never believes we have a chance. Feels every game is doomed to failure from the start. Also the quickest to want to put the game into easy mode or use some loophole to make the game easier on the players (we just ignore him). However, also brilliant in his own right and a great puzzle solver. He's the game pimper - nearly every game he owns utilizes customized components. Will think nothing of spending as much on a game's customization as he did on the game itself.
I told them I couldn't judge myself, so I had them judge for me. They agreed I was the great moderator, bringing balance to the Force. I act as a mediator by making Jay's strict technical approaches more palatable to the team in layman's terms. And I counter Terry's pessimism with eternal optimism in the face of disaster.
Our fourth new guy is too early to tell. He's not an inexperienced gamer, so right now he's still basically following orders.
