as of now there are 330 archetypes. which means there
are 330 archetypes to embody. here are some of the 330.
1. The Father
2. The Mother
3. The Brother
4. The Sister
5. The Grandmother
6. The Grandfather
7. The Child
8. The Wife
9. The Husband
10. The Politician
11. The Doctor
12. The Friend
13. The Monotheist
14. The Comedian
15. The Teacher
16. The Soldier
17. The Cop
18. The Student
19. The Patriot
20. The Citizen
The Really Slow Person In Front Of You At The Supermarket
The Kid Who Fell Down The Well And Got Rescued
The Guy In A Gorilla Costume
The Guy Who Won The Lottery Twenty-One Years Ago But Who Works In The Car Wash Today
The Man Who Can’t Dance
The Twelve Year Old Who Just Got A PhD And Makes You Feel Inadequate
The Wannabe-Beat Poet Who Hangs Out At The Cafe For Hours and Hours
The Friendly But Overbearing Waitress At Your Local Diner
The Guy In Accounting Who Takes Too Long To File Your Expense Reports
The Dentist
The Sister Of The Woman You Dated Who You Think You’d Actually Get Along With Better But That Would Be Weird
The Baseball Statistics Guy
The Short Macho Guy With An Attitude Problem
The Really Sincere Woman
The Guy With Saggy Pants
The Other Guy With Saggier Pants
The Quarterback
The Linebacker
The Right Tackle
The Mechanic Who Might Be Overcharging You But Maybe That’s Just How The Business Works
The Really Hip Person At The Mall
The Blandly Amusing Guy On TV
The Mean-Spirited Pre-Teen Thug
The Pedestrian
The Best Juggler In The County
The Stamp Collector
The Soulless TV Exec
Bob
Ted
That Other Guy You Met That One Time In A Bar Who’s Name You Can Never Quite Remember, But Always Tries Starting Up Conversations With You Despite The Fact That Neither Of You Knows Enough About The Other To Really Find Common Ground With, But Who You Feel Kinda Sorry For Because He Must Be Pretty Lonely To Have To Do That Everytime He Sees You
The Big Boss
The Fat Guy Who Eats The Much Smaller Guys He Employs In his Fast Food Restaurant
The Morning Person
The Mourning Person
The Cat Lover
The Kagomi Lover
The Hamster Humper
The Flasher
Your Girlfriend’s Mom Who’s Looks Hotter Than You Girlfriend, Or Maybe You Are Just Feeling A Bit Nervous Before The Wedding
The Light Weight
The Heavy
The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
Oh for fuck’s sake guys, give the dude a break!
33three, there is a pretty long list in the archives for the UA mailinglist. Get on it and look around, there’s some other good stuff as well…
Okay, you’re right on that one. Sorry, 33three.
I guess I believe pretty strongly that, while it’s rad to know the exact number of archetypes, it’s a number that’s deliberately too high to enumerate easily. That way, every supplement can contain some without ever worrying about topping the number or even coming close, but there’s still few enough that each one is really, really important.
I really enjoy the unmappedness of the archetypes. To list all 333, or even to list 287 and say the rest haven’t been filled, would spoil something for me.
I suppose we’ll have to do exactly that when the Invisible Clergy CCG comes out, though.
it would make a good Mcguffin or character concept for in game, the mcguffin would just be a long list written on a series of envelopes, with some of the avatar names not being canon (just for fun).
The character concepts would range from a street level jungian psychologist trying to work out all the various archetypes of humanity so as to better understand humanity to a cosmic level guy trying find out all the archetypes because he thinks it will bring about the end of the world/allow him to ascend.
The sleepers would definatly be interested.
Dude, that rules!
Maybe a Jungian who happens to guess the names “The Flying Woman” and “The Mystic Hermaphrodite” in his college paper on literary figures, puts them in a list with a bunch of other archetypes, and what do you know, he’s got Forsythes pounding on his door!
Hmm…what about The MacGuffin as an avatar? Someone who is part of things going on, but doesn’t actually do anything?