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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)

Dungeons & Dragons 5e

Delta Green

Scum and Villainy

Gothic Horror

Horror

Fantasy

Sci-Fi

Space Opera

Modern

Supernatural

Cosmic Horror

Comedy

Eldritch Horror

Espionage

Brian

I started playing D&D around 1979 or 1980 when I was just a tiny geek and continued playing seriously through college. The first 15 years of gaming for me was D&D, Tunnels & Trolls, Stalking the Night Fantastic, Pacesetter Chill, Star Wars d6, Vampire: The Masquerade, a little bit of Space: 1889, and some CoC. Since I got back into TTRPG in my 40s, I've been playing a mix of D&D 5e, Delta Green, Masks, Scum & Villainy, and some Pulp Cthulhu. I prefer role-playing focused groups where people are interested in having fun and collaborating on a story.

When I'm not gaming, I am a film professor who also writes horror novels (weird fiction), enjoys running, and loves hanging out with my wife and two adorable cats.

Brian

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