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....
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.
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.
-mice
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.
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.
So, when are you getting this game going and can I participate via Skyype and/or webcam? :)
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.
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. ;)
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.
-mice
Fantasy, followed by sci-fi. However, Shadowrun is my favourite game.
Fantasy, Hardish space SF, Espionage top my list.
About equal, but as you have forced my hand, I picked fantasy.
Dark/modern fantasy/horror.
Well, my heart will always belong to D&D, but I'll play just about any genre and I especially love horror.
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.
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.
I love em all and will play anything, but I guess I'd pick Space-Oprah or Hard Skiffy over fantasy.
I want to know who voted for Wraeththu... :heh:
Quote from: JongWKI want to know who voted for Wraeththu... :heh:
someone who was just trying to piss you off.:razz:
I have a big soft spot for giant robots, so anime it is.
Quote from: JamesVI have a big soft spot for giant robots, so anime it is.
I love Mechas, but given the fact that Anime Rpg's pretty much suck (with few exceptions), I'll go with Fantasy, D&D is what I've played/run the most.
As for horror I'm a big fan of CoC.
Fantasy and sci-fi are tied for first place in my preferences, followed by modern-day games. The problem is that sci-fi is so hard to do right, so I voted to reflect that in practice I like fantasy games better.
I'm sure I commented yesterday on the exclusion of historical and historical fantasy from the list...
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My favorite is Supers and/or twentieth century style pulp. (I would have checked other, but penis-flowers frighten me) I like swashbuckeling fantasy as well. Really, though, I'll run just about any genre except Vampires.
Historical baby, historical all the way.
1770s Naples, Renaissance Florence, the late Roman republic, give me history or give me a less satisfactory alternative!
Interesting site by the way, are there rules and mods and things here or is this like old-style rpg.net?
Quote from: BalbinusHistorical baby, historical all the way.
1770s Naples, Renaissance Florence, the late Roman republic, give me history or give me a less satisfactory alternative!
Interesting site by the way, are there rules and mods and things here or is this like old-style rpg.net?
This should help:
http://www.therpgsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1471
Quote from: AosThis should help:
http://www.therpgsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1471
Wow.
That is very cool indeed. Thanks.
Quote from: BalbinusHistorical baby, historical all the way.
1770s Naples, Renaissance Florence, the late Roman republic, give me history or give me a less satisfactory alternative!
Interesting site by the way, are there rules and mods and things here or is this like old-style rpg.net?
I've noticed this site has drawn a goodly amount of historians/historical gamers. This makes me happy. :)
Man, I'm like a freaking magpie. Okay? Shiny, shiny, shiny. One day it's all giant psionic space slugs, then the next week I'm hip-deep in psuedo-historical fantasy action and Hyborian craziness.
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