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“Roleplay Heavy” games place the focus on the story, the characters, and the world they live within, and tend to lean hard into the various roleplaying elements of the game. These games will frequently find the party talking with NPCs, exploring the personal elements of their backstories, or even having emotional moments around the camp fire. 

Roleplay Heavy

“Theater of the Mind” uses little to no visuals for scene settings and combat. Instead, the narrative imagery comes from the Game Master’s descriptions and character action and movement comes from Players’ descriptions. 

Theater of the Mind

“Combat Lite” games typically focus less on combat encounters and more on roleplay, storytelling, and exploration. Combat tends to be shorter, less frequent, resolved in a more narrative style, or absent altogether, while keeping the story as the primary focus.

Combat Lite

Dungeons & Dragons 5e

Pathfinder 2e

Call of Cthulhu

Starfinder

Alien: The Roleplaying Game

Warhammer 40,000 Wrath & Glory

Cyberpunk Red

Mystery

Fantasy

Sci-Fi

Space Opera

Cosmic Horror

Eldritch Horror

I've been a Dungeon Master for over a decade now, and I've been a player for even longer than that. I was born and raised in Dungeons and Dragons, but over the years I've taken an interest in other TTRPG systems. From the Alien RPG, to Call of Cthulu, to Mass Effect 5E.

Player agency is always a top priority in my games. If a player doesn't feel like their choices matter, then I've failed as both a storyteller and a dungeon master. My games also tend to be a healthy mix of roleplaying and combat, because if you have too much of one or the other, I find that can dilute the experience.

I've been cooking up all kinds of stories lately, and I can't wait to share them all with you!

Ian

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