How is the Archetype Dictionary supposed to be used?

[Truth]

hey guys why all the hate ?

is it really bad and i should avoid using archetypes or should i learn it and use it. i am a little confused guys.

[Richard]

It depends on who you ask. Some people claim to have success with archetypes and some don't. They don't do anything for me.

[Octahedron]

hey guys why all the hate ?

is it really bad and i should avoid using archetypes or should i learn it and use it. i am a little confused guys.

It depends on many things.

These archetypes can be good and bad, if they are bad they are VERY bad.

Like a Ferrari can be good or bad for race driver Niki Lauda or Gilles Villeneuve (+ 1982).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Villeneuve

[Truth]

But what archetypes are bad and which are good? Who determines that in the end? Who can be trusted? i mean where do i even start. what if you dont use it properly? who has the best archetypes guys is what i mean to say.

hopefully someone can share some good ones with me. i thought coming to this forum would make it easier to understand this work but i feel even more confused than ever. help a guy out

[projectiles]

But what archetypes are bad and which are good? Who determines that in the end? Who can be trusted? i mean where do i even start. what if you dont use it properly?

That's one of the central issues here. Archetype usage is mostly speculation because no one has any pure data. And when guys like Stew insist that their answers are the truth, but show otherwise, it influences the audience to trust no one

Just look at the first post. "Demagnetized Merger", it's from the archetype dictionary in the Healer's Handbook. That dictionary is glyph after glyph of such miscellaneous, random little shapes and dots and rings with definitions like "Captured Planet", 'Consciousness pointing to the left", 'Sunrise", etc, with no reference on what function it carries. They're the same little things you'd see on a schooldesk where a student drew all over it from the previous year