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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

“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)

“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

Homebrew Game

Legend in the Mist

Nimble

Daggerheart

Mythic Bastionland

Fantasy

Terry

I have 35 years of game design and GM'ing experience and have run many multi-year campaigns, and several shorter ones. I don't play often, as I prefer GM'ing and providing a place for players to experience and immerse themselves in. I've designed the ArmageddonRPG (not published yet), and was Lead Designer on the MagiNation RPG. I'm a freelance illustrator and was an animator. I am a voice actor, and produced 30+ episode full cast Armageddon audio fiction, and have written multiple books set in my Armageddon world. If I'm playing in your game, it's to give myself a nice mental shift to have some non-prep based fun!

Terry

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