D&D Beyond

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Fantasy Grounds

Foundry VTT

Roll20

“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

“Combat Heavy” games emphasize the combat mechanics within their systems over roleplay or puzzle solving. There are frequent and longer battles with enemies and a greater emphasis on tactical game play.

Combat 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)

In "Sandbox" or "Open World" games, players are given a tremendous amount of freedom to pursue their stories without the restrictions of a more linear game style. Players are encouraged to explore and engage with the world, and find their own story as they do so. These games offer the players the opportunity to help drive the narrative, and allow for the story to evolve organically through the choices they make.

Sandbox / Open World

“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

“Realm Building” games focus on the development, expansion, and management of something bigger than a single party, where the characters may find themselves in charge of a kingdom, faction, settlement, or organization. Over the course of gameplay, players might manage resources, make decisions that shape nations, or even guide large-scale conflicts as part of the ongoing story.

Realm Building

Dungeons & Dragons 5e

Call of Cthulhu

Dungeons & Dragons 3/3.5e

Warhammer 40,000 Wrath & Glory

Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition

Star Wars: Saga Edition

Mothership

Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay

Coriolis – The Third Horizon

Star Wars 5e

The One Ring 2e

Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition

Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition

Nemesis

The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying 5e

Warhammer 40,000 Imperium Maledictum

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Adam

I'm a 32-year-old player with over 20 years of experience in board games (with bigger breaks throughout my life). I hope to find a bigger community that applies longer campaigns and stories. My timezone is CET (Poland). Enjoy your games. ;)

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