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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

“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)

“Roleplay Lite” games typically include some story and character interactions but keep the emphasis on other gameplay elements like exploration or combat. While these games can still feature character-driven moments, they tend to favor quicker scenes with less focus on extensive backstories or dramatic roleplay.

Roleplay Lite

Dungeons & Dragons 5e

Call of Cthulhu

Kids on Bikes

Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition

Kids on Brooms

Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game

Never Stop Blowing Up

Gothic Horror

Mystery

Fantasy

High Fantasy

Sci-Fi

Historical

Imaginative

Supernatural

Cosmic Horror

Comedy

Cozy

Dark Fantasy

Heartwarming

Urban Fantasy

Political Intrigue

Jonathan

I enjoy stories, characters; choices, and consequences. I seek to be immersed in worlds/experiences beyond my own.

I greatly enjoy themes of adventure, horror, fantasy, romance, mystery, and science fiction though I love breaking the conventions of those genres if it makes for a better moment/story/experience.

Jonathan

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