“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)

Play By Post refers to a game in which players interact with the story through messages and text posts. These games are typically played asynchronously throughout the week, which gives players time to consider what they want to do next, and engage with the story at their own pace.

Play By Post

West Marches games are typically ran as “drop-in / drop-out” campaigns,  where a pool of players hop into sessions as they are available or as sessions align with their schedules. These games focus on a player-led story and exploration, with each session acting as a self contained adventure, allowing for players to experience a variety of stories within an overarching campaign.

West Marches

Dungeons & Dragons 5e

Kids on Bikes

Lancer

MonsterHearts 2

Monster of the Week

Mörk Borg

CY_BORG

Orbital Blues

Pirate Borg

Mythic Bastionland

Gothic Horror

Horror

Fantasy

High Fantasy

Gritty Fantasy

Low Magic

Sci-Fi

Post-Apocalyptic

Cyberpunk

Modern

Futuristic

Historical

Steampunk

Super Heroes

Pirate

Cosmic Horror

Western

Comedy

Political Intrigue

Superhero

Monsterhearts 2

Zen Ferno

Saoirse

Saoirse

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