“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

“Rule of Cool” emphasizes creative story beats over sticking to a system’s rules as written. Players have the ability to push the limits of the rules or even break core rule mechanics at times if the Game Master thinks it is interesting, fun, or cool enough.

Rule of Cool (RoC)

Call of Cthulhu

Mutants and Masterminds (3e)

Indie TTRPG

Lancer

Alien: The Roleplaying Game

Star Wars RPG by Fantasy Flight Games

Vaesen

Cyberpunk Red

HERO System

Masks: A New Generation

Mörk Borg

ICONS Superpowered Roleplaying

Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game

Gothic Horror

Space Opera

Cyberpunk

Modern

Futuristic

Imaginative

Supernatural

Super Heroes

Superhero

Michael

I've been playing on and off for almost 40 years and would love to play anying BUT D&D, Pathfinder, or WoD.

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