Thank you for playing QUILTBAG in Chicago on 7/16.

Aside from the freeform questions at the end, each question is there to filter for qualities some characters have in the game.  Most of the questions are answered on a -3 to 3 scale, in which:

• -3 means "I will not enjoy the game if I have this"
• -2 means "I strongly prefer not to have this"
• -1 means "I prefer not to have this"
• 0 means "I'm okay either way about this"
• 1 means "I prefer to have this"
• 2 means "I strongly prefer to have this"
• 3 means "I will not enjoy the game unless I have this"

We take -3 and 3 responses very seriously, and will honor them unless it is mathematically impossible to do so.  0 is always safe - answering 0 will never exclude you from playing a particular character.

After we've determined which players are eligible to play each character based on their non-zero responses, we rank the eligible players in order of how much they like the qualities that character possesses.  This almost always produces a final casting for the game.

Finally, we use your freeform answers at the end of the questionnaire as a sanity check throughout the casting process, and also as a way for you to tell us things that are important to you that the rest of the questionnaire didn't get at.