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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

“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

“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)

In "Sandbox" or "Open World" games, players are given a tremendous amount of freedom to pursue their stories without the restrictions of a more linear game style. Players are encouraged to explore and engage with the world, and find their own story as they do so. These games offer the players the opportunity to help drive the narrative, and allow for the story to evolve organically through the choices they make.

Sandbox / Open World

Dungeons & Dragons 5e

Gothic Horror

Horror

Fantasy

Gritty Fantasy

Cosmic Horror

Dark Fantasy

Espionage

Heartwarming

Romance

Political Intrigue

Allissa

Hello! My name is Allissa, 32 years old, and just getting into DMing and playing DND 5/5.5e early this year. I run a biweekly homebrew currently and a weekly Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign with my friends. I believe that the best part of roleplaying is creating a good story with my fellow players! I'm super excited to DM more frequently and be a player as well!

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