Purple Parlay—Favorite RPG Genres

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1. David on 30.04.2010 at 15:35

   My absolute favorite is sci-fi zipping around in space ships. Still, I’m pretty flexible for a good story. I don’t like crossovers.

2. Sean Holland on 30.04.2010 at 19:18

   I really like superheroes, especially silver age/four-color supers, but it is hard to find a group that shares my narrow genre focus.

   Fantasy is my primary genre, partly because it is the most common and easiest to get players for.

   SF fascinates me but it is difficult to find a group/system/setting confluence.

3. Siskoid on 01.05.2010 at 06:18

   I’ve found that genre largely doesn’t matter to me or my group, at least not once we’re involved in the game. (There may be hems and haws when a genre is suggested.)

   Some of our best games have been Westerns, Postapocalyptic, Mecha, Steampunk, Ice Age and Horror, though these don’t constitute the bulk of our gaming. Most often played and enjoyed includes Supers, Modern supernatural action movie madness, and Humor.

   We do have a certain malaise when it comes to fantasy, unless it’s very much grounded in a specific culture (GURPS Vikings for example). Straight space opera has been problematic in the past. Similarly, I’m not keen on attempting Cyberpunk or Military games. Again, it’s all just a matter of finding the key to playing those genres WELL.

   Any negative play experience we’ve had with a genre comes down to my not doing my job well.

4. Josh on 01.05.2010 at 07:04

   I’m a bit of a genre magpie – there aren’t a whole lot of them that I don’t like/play. Put a gun to my head and I’m likely to admit liking supers with an iron age setting, but characters who raise questions about the worth of such a setting (think Ross and Waid’s Kingdom Come with less background to work from), but supers in general really opens things up for a GM in my opinion.

5. Robert C Kalajian Jr on 01.05.2010 at 18:22

   I’ve always been afraid to try a supers game. I know I’d really want to like it, but would need a good GM.

6. GeneD5 on 03.05.2010 at 07:49

   As a Game Master for the past 25+ years, I’ve mostly run heroic fantasy, comic book superheroes, and space opera, with some dabbling in steampunk, espionage, cyberpunk, and time/dimensional travel. All of these have taken place in linked homebrewed settings using systems such as D20 and GURPS, so I can incorporate elements of one (say, fantasy in steampunk) in another.

   As a role-player, I’ve enjoyed occasional horror and humor games, and my current face-to-face group is trying a variety of genres and rules sets (such as FATE) during a period of one-shots between D&D4e and my next longer-term campaign. My group prefers high fantasy but has been willing to experiment, and most of our one-shots have gone well.

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