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Chapter 4: Disposition
1. The proportion of dispositions for humans is accurate to an unpublished study, in which a sample size of 264 participants
answered the Disposition Test (a computer program that may be downloaded from www.fatalgames.com). In 1999 and 2000,
prior to the development of Fatal Games TM or F.A.T.A.L. TM , this program was placed on numerous Websites for role-playing
games. Participants were unsolicited, and were asked upon running the program to e-mail their responses to Byron Hall, the
author of the questionnaire. The moral portion of the questionnaire is an attempt at matching Aristotle’s Nicomachean
Ethics. The ethical portion of the questionnaire is of secondary importance, and merely became a tool for role-playing games;
it is comprised of questions that measure philosophical views of Plato and Democritus. According to this test’s model of
Aristotle’s system, few participants scored as moral, some as immoral, and most as neutral. The lowest score was for truthfulness.
Although this study generalizes only to role-players who use the Internet, it indicates that few are moral according to Aristotle’s
Nicomachean Ethics. It is possible that these results represent all people, though further research would be necessary before
this claim could be made. Either on-line role-players or the human race leave(s) much to be desired.
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