Poll
Question:
Favourite Genre
Option 1: antasy
votes: 37
Option 2: ci-Fi
votes: 11
Option 3: istorical
votes: 5
Option 4: orror
votes: 7
Option 5: ost Apoc
votes: 3
Option 6: estern
votes: 0
Option 7: ilitary
votes: 1
Option 8: lternate History
votes: 3
Option 9: teampunk
votes: 5
I know most of us like a bit of variety, so it might be difficult to answer the poll. But which one do you find yourself most naturally fitted to in both enjoyment and results?
As a general genre I like Sci-Fi the best as you seem to get many more different flavours.
The best is the 'Spaceships with Ashtrays' type like Firefly and Alien.
Why, cyberpunk and superheroes, of course!
Fantasy's my favourite. Always wanted to try western, haven't had the chance yet.
I cannot vote. You left superheroes off completely, and while fantasy is a very close second, it is a second.
This is hard for me.
All other considerations being equal, I chose Fantasy in the end, because that's what I play the most.
I like espionage best, and you left that off, too.
What, no superheroes? You call that a poll?
I never said it was definitive...
For RPGs, fantasy. For anything else - literature, TV, movies - it's science fiction.
What's missing is "Space Fantasy" like Star Wars and Star Trek. Neither even comes close to being true SciFi....
Quote from: One Horse Town;320877I know most of us like a bit of variety, so it might be difficult to answer the poll. But which one do you find yourself most naturally fitted to in both enjoyment and results?
My favorite genre of fiction is sci-fi, but in terms of the most enjoyable campaigns I've been in, fantasy would be first with sci-fi a close second.
Quote from: stu2000;320972I like espionage best, and you left that off, too.
And historical and Western are two categories?
I picked historical, which I take to include Western, with which I like to run espionage-tinged adventures.
As a GM, I have always found fantasy the easiest to come up with plots for. I usually run fantasy.
As a player I've always loved sci fi the best, especially with a military bent. Some favorite games include the original Spacemaster, Star Frontiers and Cyberpunk 2020. Oddly enough, I've never played Traveller.
Steampunk. No questions asked.
I enjoy fantasy and sci-fi well enough, but nothing can hold my attention like steampunk can.
Fantasy, definitely. I don't like much in the way of generic or D&D type fantasy, but give me a great setting and rules that make sense in light of that setting(like Earthdawn or Agone) and I'm all over it!
Post-apocalypse for me. It mixes the weirdness and danger of fantasy settings with guns, vehicles, and a bit of survivalism.
Fantasy, but it's a really difficult choice for me.
Ditto. Fantasy, because I'm taking it to include things like supers and TMNT besides Tolkienesque fantasy, but sci-fi is a very close second (I take Star Wars and cyberpunk would go in there).
Historical baby, all the way.
My Monghol hordes trample your orcs and rejoice in the lamenting of their womenfolk.
Assuming orcs have womenfolk that is.
Quote from: Balbinus;321198Historical baby, all the way.
My Monghol hordes trample your orcs and rejoice in the lamenting of their womenfolk.
Assuming orcs have womenfolk that is.
I don't think Orcs are historical, and therefore can't be trampled by your historical mongols, unless the term has some odd meaning for you that isn't part of consensual reality...
For me, fantasy, specially low fantasy, although I like also sword and sorcery and high fantasy, and historicals. It includes westerns, doesn't it?
I really couldn't answer this poll. I'm completely multi-genre.
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Quote from: RPGPundit;321226I really couldn't answer this poll. I'm completely multi-gender.
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Yeah, I knew that.
Quote from: SunBoy;321240Yeah, I knew that.
Does he flash people with his multi-gender parts or something? :D
Quote from: aramis;321202I don't think Orcs are historical, and therefore can't be trampled by your historical mongols, unless the term has some odd meaning for you that isn't part of consensual reality...
Dude, Tolkien is perfectly clear that Middle Earth predates our world. Are you saying Tolkien lied?
I'm just so damned sick of fantasy.
Me too. Yet I like it best for RPGs. Go figure.
Quote from: Benoist;321249Does he flash people with his multi-gender parts or something? :D
I'm not talking.
Quote from: brettmb;321275I'm just so damned sick of fantasy.
Yeah, genre fatigue is a risk of the hobby, but also curable by the hobby.
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Fantasy is the tops for me.
I couldn't vote because modern isn't listed.
I love modern day adventures. From the really wierd x-files ish to an evening at the GRINDHOUSE! Even then a simple campaign of bikers in a turf war is always fun.
Quote from: Balbinus;321198Historical baby, all the way.
Yeah baby.
Quote from: brettmb;321275I'm just so damned sick of fantasy.
I can't say I'm sick of it, because it was never my cuppa.
But I do wish more gamers weren't so enamoured of it.
My top two genres are not here. Supers and Modern Supernatural Adventure/ Horror (Modern Magical to grab a new descriptor from our author friends).
Quote from: brettmb;321275I'm just so damned sick of fantasy.
Why did you publish a fantasy RPG (Iron Gauntlets) then? Please don't think I'm trying to be a smartass here, I'm genuinely curious.
"Because I love money!"
Mr. Crab, (Spongebob Squarepants) when asked why he opened his restaurant.
Quote from: Claudius;321528Why did you publish a fantasy RPG (Iron Gauntlets) then? Please don't think I'm trying to be a smartass here, I'm genuinely curious.
1. That was quite a few years back.
2. Fantasy sells well since it is the most popular genre.
3. I go through cycles of what interests me. I don't mind fantasy in small doses, but the constant discussion of fantasy everywhere I go really wears me down. If I have a spark of an idea, I pursue it.
Quote from: brettmb;3215521. That was quite a few years back.
2. Fantasy sells well since it is the most popular genre.
3. I go through cycles of what interests me. I don't mind fantasy in small doses, but the constant discussion of fantasy everywhere I go really wears me down. If I have a spark of an idea, I pursue it.
I'm with Brett - I can take fantasy in small doses. I love FtA! and Iron Gauntlets, but even them I can't run often. I ran D&D for twenty years, and my fantasy glands were entirely burned out.
-clash
Quote from: flyingmice;321566I'm with Brett...
As always :)
I have always found it easier to game in a Fantasy setting, it seems to be easier to get into a fantasy mindset rather than sci-fi for my group.
Quote from: flyingmice;321566I'm with Brett - I can take fantasy in small doses. I love FtA! and Iron Gauntlets, but even them I can't run often. I ran D&D for twenty years, and my fantasy glands were entirely burned out.
-clash
I ran D&D for a long, long time, too. I should be burned out on fantasy as well. I think in my case the reason I haven't is because I don't read or watch much fantasy outside of game stuff. I think if I did, I might've been long done with fantasy RPGs.
I couldn't even watch Lord of the Rings.
Fantasy all the way!
:unicorn::gnome::viking::ninja:
Quote from: Akrasia;321615Fantasy all the way!
:unicorn::gnome::viking::ninja:
Awesome party, dude. What class is the unicorn?
Quote from: Warthur;321668Awesome party, dude. What class is the unicorn?
My gut instincts are telling me "Cleric". But yes, please, do tell.
Quote from: Warthur;321668Awesome party, dude. What class is the unicorn?
:wizard: The unicorn is actually a chaotic magic-user who has polymorphed himself in order to better infiltrate the Sacred Grove of the Glade Goddess.
i chose post apoc, but honestly i'm multi-genre. i'll do mashups of post apoc + fantasy, fantasy + western, sci-fi + horror, etc. etc.
i generally grow weary of any one genre for any length of time.
Quote from: brettmb;321603I couldn't even watch Lord of the Rings.
I
like fantasy, and it nearly killed me. I watched it again with my 9 year old recently. Never. Again.
Horror all the way...then fantasy.
Horror. Running horror games is one of the few things I do well. And I understand that running horror well is kind of a rarity, so, I FUCKING ROCK, AND Y'ALL CAN SUCK IT!
MUA! BWA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I'm a huge fan of Steampunk; Flying ships, clockwork automatons, trains, guns, wacky mechanical devices, etc. These elements almost always find their way into any game I run.
I also enjoy Fantasy (high or low), Sci-Fi, and super hero games.