“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)

Pathfinder 1e

Call of Cthulhu

Dungeons & Dragons 3/3.5e

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1e

Horror

High Fantasy

Imaginative

Steampunk

Victorian

Patrick

I've been playing RPGs on and off since 1st edition Dungeons & Dragons in the early 1980's. Usually a player, though I've run a few campaigns over the years, including PBEM back before "the Internet" was a thing.

Coming back after a long hiatus to try all the new systems out there. 

Patrick

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