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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

A “Dungeon Crawl” is a scenario where players navigate a dungeon or labyrinth-like environment for the entirety of the adventure. It emphasizes battling monsters, collecting loot, and avoiding traps to survive to the end!

Dungeon Crawl

“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)

Dungeon Crawl Classics

Call of Cthulhu

Mothership

Gumshoe

Stars Without Numbers (Revised)

WWII: Operation WhiteBox

Cats Of Catthulhu

Esper Genesis

Fate of Cthulhu

Fantasy

Space Opera

Post-Apocalyptic

Futuristic

Historical

Cosmic Horror

Grimdark

Eldritch Horror

Dark Fantasy

Espionage

Stars without Number (Revised)

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Joab

I'm Joab. I started playing D&D in 1978 and then moved on to Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. But that was boring. I found the original boxed set of Call of Cthulhu in 1981 and have run numerous campaigns over the years. I have diversified into many other games. Currently I run a Lamentations of the Flame Princess game and a Stars without Number game for my home group. I have also run numerous Dungeon Crawl Classics adventures, Trail of Cthulhu, Achtung!Cthulhu and World War Cthulhu using the Call of Cthulhu rules, and Operation White Box WWII among others.

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