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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6034421" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>I have no idea...</p><p></p><p>I would play in a sci-fi, contemporary (e.g. secret agents / d20 modern) and cyberpunk RPG, and perhaps also horror, but I am not generally nearly as interested in those as I am in fantasy RPG.</p><p></p><p>One thing that affects me is technology. To put it simply, technology does not amaze me, magic and ancient mysteries do. It might be that I am simply more susceptible to being intrigued by the past rather than the future or the present. Or it might be that technology implies that someone understands it before building it, while magic is never fully understood.</p><p></p><p>I actually played some sci-fi/cyberpunk RPG in the distant past and it was a-OK, but with sci-fi RPG in general I am always suspicious that it will end up with the usual clichés: the ravenous Ridley Scott's Alien - type monster, the child-like bald frail super-genius friendly alien, or the fluffy blue comic-relief alien that later turns into a devouring frenzy. </p><p></p><p>Another problem of sci-fi is that technology is vastly superior to the character's own abilities. And you got to have spaceships battles, which are hard to run in a RPG. The best type of sci-fi RPG for me is the dystopic campaign setting, similar e.g. to Bladerunner, where individuals matter more than vehicles and super weapons.</p><p></p><p>I also think that sci-fi and horror owe a lot to their visual representations, and are not that awesome in my imagination. I can generally create my own mental images (and verbal descriptions, when I DM) of fantasy much better. But I won't nearly be scared by a horror RPG as much as a horror movie can scare me.</p><p></p><p>For other genres, I couldn't care less. Western to me is very poor, I very rarely liked western movies, they make me fall asleep. Military is horrible, I hate war and I want to play RPG to escape from the horrors of the real world, not to get reminded about them (same reason why I would never play a first-person shooter game). And superheroes for me is superlame, I mean... what's more lame than flying machos in spandex? <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/worried.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":-S" title="Uhm :-S" data-shortname=":-S" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6034421, member: 1465"] I have no idea... I would play in a sci-fi, contemporary (e.g. secret agents / d20 modern) and cyberpunk RPG, and perhaps also horror, but I am not generally nearly as interested in those as I am in fantasy RPG. One thing that affects me is technology. To put it simply, technology does not amaze me, magic and ancient mysteries do. It might be that I am simply more susceptible to being intrigued by the past rather than the future or the present. Or it might be that technology implies that someone understands it before building it, while magic is never fully understood. I actually played some sci-fi/cyberpunk RPG in the distant past and it was a-OK, but with sci-fi RPG in general I am always suspicious that it will end up with the usual clichés: the ravenous Ridley Scott's Alien - type monster, the child-like bald frail super-genius friendly alien, or the fluffy blue comic-relief alien that later turns into a devouring frenzy. Another problem of sci-fi is that technology is vastly superior to the character's own abilities. And you got to have spaceships battles, which are hard to run in a RPG. The best type of sci-fi RPG for me is the dystopic campaign setting, similar e.g. to Bladerunner, where individuals matter more than vehicles and super weapons. I also think that sci-fi and horror owe a lot to their visual representations, and are not that awesome in my imagination. I can generally create my own mental images (and verbal descriptions, when I DM) of fantasy much better. But I won't nearly be scared by a horror RPG as much as a horror movie can scare me. For other genres, I couldn't care less. Western to me is very poor, I very rarely liked western movies, they make me fall asleep. Military is horrible, I hate war and I want to play RPG to escape from the horrors of the real world, not to get reminded about them (same reason why I would never play a first-person shooter game). And superheroes for me is superlame, I mean... what's more lame than flying machos in spandex? :-S [/QUOTE]
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