What genres do you suck at, and why?

HinterWelt · October 08, 2007, 08:47:19 PM

Anime. I just end up running a fantasy game. I cannot grok how anime is any different than fantasy. I don't hate it, just cannot seem to embrace whatever is supposed to make it anime. It just turns into fantasy with big eyes.

Bill

teckno72 · October 08, 2007, 08:57:38 PM

I can run/play just about anything, with varying degrees of success. I'm not completely sure why, but I find if very difficult to run Werewolf. Ideas just seem to evaporate from my mind when I try to think up stuff for this one. My players weren't too into it, either. Something about the inevitable combat and the weird powers/critters you run into just doesn't seem to mesh for me. Though, I respect the idea of it, I think.

Kyle Aaron · October 08, 2007, 09:04:58 PM

I'm terrible at GMing horror, because players usually insist their characters are horrified by nothing, and even when they're decent roleplayers, still as players they crack jokes which turn your horror into comedy. I'm unable to give them the focus needed...

flyingmice · October 08, 2007, 09:37:23 PM

Quote from: HinterWeltAnime. I just end up running a fantasy game. I cannot grok how anime is any different than fantasy. I don't hate it, just cannot seem to embrace whatever is supposed to make it anime. It just turns into fantasy with big eyes.

Bill

That's probably because Anime isn't really a matter of genre, it's a matter of style.

-clash

Malleus Arianorum · October 09, 2007, 02:17:22 AM

Wraith
I can't for the life of me figure out how to make a game out of this thing. Which is too bad since it's wierd enough to have definitely piqued my curiosity.

LARP Vampire Mind's eye Theater (or whatever it's called now)
I'm always bored out of my skull at these events. It seems to me that there's no actual Roleplaying or Game going on, just gossip about who's fighting or having sex. But, my friends in the Cam always have stories about what happens in the game so who knows? It's a mystery!

jeff37923 · October 09, 2007, 02:28:41 AM

Modern Horror that doesn't look like the X-Files.

The World of Darkness and the Buffyverse and their clones (d20 Modern Shadow Chasers, I'm looking at you) to me all feel more like a superhero genre than horror. There is not enough mystery or feeling of actual emotional horror to them for me to either GM well or play well in.

TheQuestionMan · October 09, 2007, 03:32:58 AM

Any Genre Setting where the PCs are Powerless to affect the outcome.

Toon
Paranoia
Cthulhu
Etc...

Just no fun for me...

QM

Imperator · October 09, 2007, 04:50:21 AM

Quote from: BalbinusYou? Anything you aren't averse to that you really struggle to run or play?

Supers. Specially the 4 color variety. For very much the same reasons Balbinus mentioned. I don't know what to do between battles, and though I like SH comics, I can't wrap my head around the genre. Also, nobodyaround here runs SH games, as it seems to not be very popular around Spain.

Other than that, I strongly rock running any game.

Hackmaster · October 09, 2007, 08:31:34 AM

I can't do pulp. I just don't get it. I cannot play it or run it with any originality. I can't come up with an interesting character and couldn't come up with any sort of plot to run for players.

Call of Cthulhu horror. Another genre I just don't get. I've read a bunch of Lovecraft stories and didn't particularly like them (not saying they are poorly written, just not to my taste).

Supers. I can have a blast designing superheroes all day long, but I can't come up with interesting stories to run a supers game. My creativity with this genre is limited to having a supervillian commit a crime and then having the heroes show up and fight him.

teckno72 · October 09, 2007, 09:21:02 AM

Oh, and comedic games like Paranoia and Teenagers from Outer Space. I just can't run these. I feel that I am funny, but it's just not as consistent as these games require.

John Morrow · October 09, 2007, 10:58:31 AM

Quote from: flyingmiceThat's probably because Anime isn't really a matter of genre, it's a matter of style.

While there may be some merit to that distinction in media, many role-playing games pretty much reduce genre to a matter of style.

flyingmice · October 09, 2007, 11:08:10 AM

Quote from: John MorrowWhile there may be some merit to that distinction in media, many role-playing games pretty much reduce genre to a matter of style.

I know Bill.

-clash

Serious Paul · October 09, 2007, 11:13:56 AM

Maybe this is a bit conceited on my part, but with the right players I can run anything.

Roman · October 09, 2007, 11:16:37 AM

Quote from: Balbinus

For me, Supers. I can't run it at all, I struggle to play it well.

Other folk manage it fine, me, when I run supers it rapidly turns into some ghastly version of Watchmen but with more violence, as everyone slowly begins to act rationally and the logic of the game rapidly begins to disintegrate.

Now see, that actually sounds interesting to me.

-E. · October 09, 2007, 11:22:49 AM

I'm actually okay at Sci-Fi... but it's a struggle for me, mainly because I have a hard time coming up with vast universes that feel appropriately rich and complex.

I can do it... it's just difficult... and all too often I feel like I've invented (sigh) another giant mega-opolis with 2000-story sky-scrapers, or another generic starport or whatever.

Cheers,
-E.