Quote from: Gruntfuttock;720216The Strange Stones site has a faux MesoAmerican setting called Tlactoztlan. It's written up for Barbarians of Lemuria, but should be easily adapted to other systems. It's not complete, just sketches/notes really, but I view that as a plus (and I like BoL as a system). It's worth a look:

http://www.strangestones.com/tlactoztlan/

Thanks, this was 20 years ago though, I'm not terribly interested at the moment, but maybe again some day. Never say never.

Quote from: 3rik;720227But I don't want faux, I want something at least intended to resemble the real thing to a certain extent.

There's Warhammer fantasy, if you don't mind the Aztecs being frogmen

Been running a supers game online (by post) for 5 years (actually might be a bit longer I guess) now so I suppose you could call me a big supers fan. In that time we changed from the Golden Heroes rules to a very houseruled barely recognizable GH variant to DC Heroes (3e now BoH). I love the system from way back when but understand that a couple of the players don't get it and probably never will - it seems crunchy even to me and I was in from 1e in 1980 whenever.

As for other genres, in order of favourite (no.1)

1) Supers (own just about every supers game ever made, not tried 'em all mind.)
2) Fantasy (Basic D&D more than AD&D, also loved MERP stripped free of the Tolkien baggage. Like Basic D&D with skills and crits! Whoop! E Crit! SPLAT!)
3) Space Opera (Star Wars D6 version)
4) Pulp (Crimson Skies, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, masked mystery men)
5) Semi historical pirates/swashbuckling
6) Post Apocalypse/any genre zombie apocalypse


9,999,999,999) Star trek. Played a game. Stuck with it but it's not really my cup of tea. You could probably say the same about Traveller. In 30 odd years of role playing tried it a few times (as played and GM) and it always died before the end of the first session. I guess we weren't doing it right. Saying that, had similar problems with Shadowrun so I guess I prefer sci fi on the screen rather than over the table with dice, unless its space opera which is a cross between genres anyway (and the science just 'works' without much explanation or gobbledigook)

Quote from: 3rik;720227But I don't want faux, I want something at least intended to resemble the real thing to a certain extent. GURPS Aztec is pretty good but, like I said, an Aztec Qin would be the ultimate option.

Part of the problem here is the holes in our knowledge of Mesoamerican civilisations, which are easier to fill with magic & fantasy than just with extrapolation from facts.

Quote from: Rincewind1;720274Part of the problem here is the holes in our knowledge of Mesoamerican civilisations, which are easier to fill with magic & fantasy than just with extrapolation from facts.

Being familiar to some extent with the source materials, I am aware of this. Otherwise there would have been more attempts at historical Aztec RPGs (+ setting-appropriate magic) already, because of the general awesomeness.

GURPS Aztecs did a pretty good job at forging everything into something actually playable and plausible without resorting to faux-Nahuatl and Discovery Channel sensationalism. IIRC it even gave you some directions on "realistic" magic for the setting.

Quote from: Brander;720230*snipped*

Excellent avatar, Brander. Two tentacles up.

Welcome to the adult swim.

Quote from: Black Vulmea;720634Excellent avatar, Brander. Two tentacles up.

Welcome to the adult swim.

Thanks,

Sorry I missed this until now.

Quote from: 3rik;720609Being familiar to some extent with the source materials, I am aware of this. Otherwise there would have been more attempts at historical Aztec RPGs (+ setting-appropriate magic) already, because of the general awesomeness.

GURPS Aztecs did a pretty good job at forging everything into something actually playable and plausible without resorting to faux-Nahuatl and Discovery Channel sensationalism. IIRC it even gave you some directions on "realistic" magic for the setting.

I need to check GURPS out some day, when I have loadsamoney for the books/pdfs.

Fantasy as a genre has always been more limited in RPGs than in other media anyhow. In RPGs it basically means elves and magic. In film it's all that and The Wizard of Oz and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

Well, duh! It's why I hardly ever post nowadays.

-clash

Quote from: Rincewind1;722644I need to check GURPS out some day, when I have loadsamoney for the books/pdfs.

Yeah, you should, it's a great game!
(And very likely right up your alley.

Quote from: Endless Flight;719926With most of the talk around here about D&D and the fantasy genre, it got me to thinking just how much I like fantasy compared to some of the other genres. I made a list of my top five.

1. Space Opera (Star Wars)
2. Super Heroes (DCH/MSH)
3. Modern/Spy (d20 Modern)
4. Post-Apocalyptic (Gamma World)
5. Fantasy (D&D)

I was kind of surprised it landed at #5, but it's a fair assessment. I grew up on Star Wars and G.I.JOE. I have been reading comics for 30 years, so supers have always been one of my favorite genres. I like the gonzo of Gamma World. I wasn't into fantasy as a kid, having never read Tolkien, Howard, etc. I love Howard now, but it wasn't engrained in my brain at a young age.

Is there anybody else here that has similar views or maybe I'm just very much in a niche minority of gamers.

I'll play in fantasy games (hey, I love D&D), but I actually read and watch very little of any fantasy genre (and I don't play fantasy video games, barring very rare exceptions). I prefer a few different genres of horror and science fiction, first and foremost, followed by modern day games.

Quote from: Phillip;719944'Genre' is what happens when imitation takes over from imagination.

Eh... "Genre" is what happens when reader expectations and authorial creations agree. Genres are fluid, mutable, and inconsistent over time.

Quote"Zombie apocalypse" was probably not yet a proper genre when Romero made Night of the Living Dead (earlier classics such as White Zombie and I Walked With a Zombie instead treating the zombie phenomenon in the Haitian cultural context).

There are a few earlier examples, but it didn't become a genre until after he released Dawn of the Dead and other filmmakers started following Romero's patterns (I believe the first was Fulci's Zombi / Zombi 2), allowing for audiences to expect that "zombie" movies would, in general, involve thus-and-so elements.

QuoteLately, though, it seems to me to have got too mired in repetition.

I largely agree, though I watch and read as many as I hear of.

Quote from: jeff37923;7200201) Science Fiction
2) Science Fantasy
3) Fantasy


Those are my preferred genres, in order.

Horror? Post-Apocalypse? Cyberpunk? Can be done in any of the three.

And I'm with Thanos, I'm pretty sick of fantasy at the moment.

How could anyone do fantasy cyberpunk?

Quote from: Rincewind1;722644I need to check GURPS out some day, when I have loadsamoney for the books/pdfs.

I have no problem saying that GURPS is a fantastic game, despite the fact that I find the system too crunchy for my tastes. I've bought tons of the sourcebooks over the years - there's a few dogs here and there, but overall they're some of the best RPG material ever published. Hell, they did a sourcebook for The Prisoner that's still one of my prized gaming possessions.