“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

“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)

Dungeons & Dragons 5e

Fantasy

Scifi

Futuristic

Imaginative

Steampunk

Sci-fi

Stephen

I've been playing D&D for about 6 years in a handful of different campaigns.  I've recently become a fan of the Role-Playing aspect of D&D, I also do still love combat though.  While I know a lot of the rules, I'm always a fan of ROC or RAW.

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