Do wizards suffer from schizotypal personality disorder?

[Tom318]

Checklist from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypal_personality_disorder :

Inappropriate or constricted affect (the individual appears cold and aloof) -- they live alone in towers with dangerous traps.

Behaviour or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar -- they wear robes instead of armor like everyone else

Poor rapport with others and a tendency to social withdrawal -- see above about towers etc.

Odd beliefs or magical thinking, influencing behaviour and inconsistent with subcultural norms - magical thinking hmm.

Suspiciousness or paranoid ideas - see above about towers etc.

Obsessive ruminations without inner resistance, often with dysmorphophobic, sexual or aggressive contents -- large pink succubi, spells mostly meant to harm and kill..

Unusual perceptual experiences including somatosensory (bodily) or other illusions, depersonalization or derealization -- pretty much defines your average illusion-schooled wiz

Vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped thinking, manifested by odd speech or in other ways, without gross incoherence -- like for instance chanting and waving of hands and wands?

Occasional transient quasi-psychotic episodes with intense illusions, auditory or other hallucinations, and delusion-like ideas, usually occurring without external provocation -- summons etc.

What do you guys think?

[jennick52]

Checklist from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypal_personality_disorder :

Inappropriate or constricted affect (the individual appears cold and aloof) -- they live alone in towers with dangeous traps.

Behaviour or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar -- they wear robes instead of armor like everyone else
That is because armor restricts fine motor movements, making certain gestures hard to perform.

Poor rapport with others and a tendency to social withdrawal -- see above about towers etc.

Odd beliefs or magical thinking, influencing behaviour and inconsistent with subcultural norms - magical thinking hmm. In a high magic game this doesn't apply, as magic is very much in cultural norms.

Suspiciousness or paranoid ideas - see above about towers etc.

Obsessive ruminations without inner resistance, often with dysmorphophobic, sexual or aggressive contents -- large pink succubi, spells mostly meant to harm and kill.. AFAIK there is no way to summon a succubi in DDO. Wizards and Sorcs have alot of spells that do neither, they just aren't taken, except for certain buffs, as they are useless in game.

Unusual perceptual experiences including somatosensory (bodily) or other illusions, depersonalization or derealization -- pretty much defines your average illusion-schooled wiz

Vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped thinking, manifested by odd speech or in other ways, without gross incoherence -- like for instance chanting and waving of hands and wands? That sort of thing happens in real life too. You ever see the religious channels on sunday morning?

Occasional transient quasi-psychotic episodes with intense illusions, auditory or other hallucinations, and delusion-like ideas, usually occurring without external provocation -- summons etc. Every class can do that, just is some require an item.

What do you guys think?

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Trying to base real life psychology to a highly magical game world doesn' work.

[lazylaz]

(I don't think Tom318 was being particularly serious [probably])

[Windex69]

Checklist from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypal_personality_disorder :

Inappropriate or constricted affect (the individual appears cold and aloof) -- they live alone in towers with dangeous traps.

Behaviour or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar -- they wear robes instead of armor like everyone else

Poor rapport with others and a tendency to social withdrawal -- see above about towers etc.

Odd beliefs or magical thinking, influencing behaviour and inconsistent with subcultural norms - magical thinking hmm.

Suspiciousness or paranoid ideas - see above about towers etc.

Obsessive ruminations without inner resistance, often with dysmorphophobic, sexual or aggressive contents -- large pink succubi, spells mostly meant to harm and kill..

Unusual perceptual experiences including somatosensory (bodily) or other illusions, depersonalization or derealization -- pretty much defines your average illusion-schooled wiz

Vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped thinking, manifested by odd speech or in other ways, without gross incoherence -- like for instance chanting and waving of hands and wands?

Occasional transient quasi-psychotic episodes with intense illusions, auditory or other hallucinations, and delusion-like ideas, usually occurring without external provocation -- summons etc.

What do you guys think?


Very funny way to look at it!
Your post brought a smile to my face and I appreciate that.
It's posts like these that make these forums actually worth reading.





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Nice... real nice.
It's replies to posts like this that make these forums actually not worth reading... Wow... Just, wow dude...

[Tom318]

That is because armor restricts fine motor movements, making certain gestures hard to perform.

Doesn't it make you wonder whether they need to do them?


In a high magic game this doesn't apply, as magic is very much in cultural norms.

Nah, people hate and fear magic-users, when's the last time one got healed in a PUG :P


AFAIK there is no way to summon a succubi in DDO.

But the Degenev brothers do it.. so it must be possible.


Wizards and Sorcs have alot of spells that do neither, they just aren't taken, except for certain buffs, as they are useless in game.

Note that the checklist doesn't say "always", it says "often" :)


That sort of thing happens in real life too. You ever see the religious channels on sunday morning?

No comment about that one lol :)

[Musouka]

Good post +1...

I think you struck a little too close to home with the first replier.

[dormetheus]

I'm sure quite a few myth and fantasy writers were schyzotypal.

[jennick52]

Good post +1...

I think you struck a little too close to home with the first replier.

Well just a little. While I do not live in a tower cloistered from everyone, sometimes I wish I did.

My odd behavior stems from my chosen profession. I trust very few people, but those I do, I would do anything for.

Poor rapport with others. If I don't know you, I won't talk to you. If I think you are an idiot, I won't talk to you.

Suspicious or paranoid. **** straight I am. Nothing like having your life, and the life of your wife and kids threatened to make it so.

Vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped thinking, manifested by odd speech or in other ways, without gross incoherence -- like for instance chanting and waving of hands and wands? If you ever seen me in the throws of a profanity laced tirade, you would think so too.

Maybe some of it struck very close to home.