“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)

Dungeons & Dragons 5e

Call of Cthulhu

Starfinder

Eclipse Phase

Star Wars RPG by Fantasy Flight Games

Delta Green

Cyberpunk Red

Old Gods of Appalachia

OneDice Abney Park’s Airship Pirates

Fantasy

Cyberpunk

Pirate

Cosmic Horror

Eldritch Horror

Political Intrigue

David Plaisance

David Plaisance

My preferences