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Favorite genres

Started by Dominus Nox, August 30, 2006, 05:24:27 AM

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Dominus Nox

August 30, 2006, 05:24:27 AM
So, what's you favorite genre for gaming? SF, fantasy, anime, superheroes, modern, horror or other?

Me, I like SF, fairly hard. Traveller and transhuman space work for me, too bad they're both done by SJG....
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joewolz

#1
August 30, 2006, 07:33:02 AM
Hands down:  Horror.  All genres are fun, but I like to run Horror.  I'd like to play all sorts of stuff, but most of my gaming is horror.
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flyingmice

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August 30, 2006, 08:44:20 AM
A few months ago, I would have said hard SF, hands down. Now, since writing and running In Harm's Way dozens of times, I have to say other.

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#3
August 30, 2006, 09:31:05 AM
Since nobody is really admitting it yet, and we're already dominating the poll :) I'll just step forward.

In the 90s, I used to really like genre bending games, but even then, I had fantasy as a heavily represented element. I think I've gone back to fantasy for good. But my idea if fantasy is sort of the antithesis of classic ("medieval" sounds boring to me). I like the more eclectic strange fantasy settings.  Those tend to have elements of other genres (alien-ish monster races, psionics, horror, and even buck-Rogers-ish type elements) drawn in.
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Vellorian

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August 30, 2006, 09:41:10 AM
Quote from: joewolzHands down:  Horror.  All genres are fun, but I like to run Horror.  I'd like to play all sorts of stuff, but most of my gaming is horror.

I think I'd like to play an horror game run by an historian.  :)  

What sorts of themes and memes do you usually use?  Please don't burst my bubble and go for the "slasher-flick" style.  I can see a historian pulling off something like Cthulhu in a pre-historic setting reminiscent of a proto-Egypt.  

Or how about a late 19th century isolated province in the heart of Russia dealing with rusalkas and hungry demons from the netherworld of cyrillic-mythology.  

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Mystery Man

#5
August 30, 2006, 09:52:42 AM
I'm pretty much going to stick with fantasy from now on, it's fun to run, my players enjoy it and are most familiar with it. And since I'm lazy and am horrible at starting campaign settings I use either the Wilderlands or Eberron. Using either of those two I can pepper my campaign with pulp noir (really easy to do with Eberron) and psuedo scifi and get away with it.
 

Zachary The First

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August 30, 2006, 10:21:48 AM
Fantasy is tops on my list, followed by SciFi (more Traveller than Transhuman Space) and historical settings.

I'm also a fan of Rifts, which is technically post-apocalyptic, but has elements of just about every genre at some point, I think. ;)
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August 30, 2006, 10:31:52 AM
Fantasy is the low man on my totem pole. Even my fantasy game is a SF game in very thin disguise - sort of an anti-Star Wars. When my players say they want to play a Fantasy game, I sigh deeply and bow to their wishes. The problem is I ran Fantasy games for 20 straight years so it all gets very predictable, and I have a hard time coming up with fresh takes on the subject.

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JongWK

#8
August 30, 2006, 11:18:11 AM
Fantasy, followed by sci-fi. However, Shadowrun is my favourite game.
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Caesar Slaad

#9
August 30, 2006, 11:19:11 AM
Fantasy, Hardish space SF, Espionage top my list.

About equal, but as you have forced my hand, I picked fantasy.
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#10
August 30, 2006, 11:59:47 AM
Dark/modern fantasy/horror.
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#11
August 30, 2006, 01:26:59 PM
Well, my heart will always belong to D&D, but I'll play just about any genre and I especially love horror.
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#12
August 30, 2006, 02:54:40 PM
Classic fantasy. I'd say space opera and hard scifi would be duking it out for second spot.

Ironically enough, I vastly prefer reading scifi literature over fantasy, any day.
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August 30, 2006, 02:59:34 PM
While I love fantasy, in running a post-apocalyptic HERO 5 game I have discovered that all the well loved tropes of traditional fantasy rpgs fit perfectly well within the PA genre.  On top of it, you can have plasma rifles and cyborgs.  You can't beat that.
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#14
August 30, 2006, 03:04:41 PM
I love em all and will play anything, but I guess I'd pick Space-Oprah or Hard Skiffy over fantasy.
 
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