Archetype and Pick

Archetype

Archetype noun - Something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed.

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Pick and archetype are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pick" instead a noun "Archetype".

Nearby Words: archetypal, archetypical

Pick noun - A person or thing that is chosen.

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Archetype and pick are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Archetype" instead a noun "Pick".

Nearby Words: pickle, picky, picked, picket, pickup

good	good archetype	good pick
female	female archetype	female pick
typical	typical archetype	typical pick
common	common archetype	common pick
Other adjectives: original, single, popular, strong, weak, little, giant.

To pick one random example, there is an archetype from The Book of Archetypes called Necrophiliac.

Source: Tabletop Game / All Flesh Must Be Eaten
Monster of the Week, a game about monster hunting in the vein of Buffy or Supernatural using the basic Apocalypse World engine, explicitly enforces this: by the rules, each player has to pick a different Hunter archetype, so there can be at most one e.g.

Source: Cast Speciation
Butt Monkey: Due to the intrinsically low intelligence of the archetype (unless they have the Onboard Computer, which boosts Intelligence to super-genius levels), particularly sadistic GMs tend to pick on Gorilla Fighters.

Source: Tabletop Game / Feng Shui

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