[KyleGoetz]

This is one of those times I'm glad I never started using a word. I automatically go to 方 when I'm not going to use 人. Is there a time where 者 is the best word to use, rather than 方／人? I guess, as YuriTokoro said, in a novel as the third-person, right? 者 sounds sort of detached, right? Hence why a third-person narrator or dictator might use it.

Right?

In that case, it would mean a science article might use 者 as well in certain circumstances.