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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9083327" data-attributes="member: 7035894"><p>For horror games, I really like going with high school/college kids getting in over their heads - the wilderness trip gone wrong, the ill advised stay in the creepy house, etc.. These are classics for a reason - the cockiness of youth leads to guaranteed trouble, and teenaged/young adult relationships are so fun to RP. Drama!</p><p></p><p>For fantasy games, I actively try to avoid the most common tropes for character creation. My characters <em>never</em> have links to nobility or were marked from birth or anything like that, they always come from fairly normal families (no orphans!), they don't have a super mysterious patron, none of that nonsense. I generally try to subvert tropes in my adventures, too. In the current campaign arc, the characters went to help a swamp village out by killing a local hag, except they failed and it turned out the villagers were more in the wrong than the hag was, so now they owe her and are questing to help her reconnect with her long lost coven...so the hags can go on a retreat to a beachside resort and catch up.</p><p></p><p>But subverting tropes is super basic, especially if you came of age in the 80s/90s, so it's not like I'm being cutting edge or anything.</p><p></p><p>Cosmic horror/Lovecraftian entities are a staple in most anything I run. </p><p></p><p>Oh, and pirates. I like pirates in any genre. All the pirate tropes. Unironically.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 9083327, member: 7035894"] For horror games, I really like going with high school/college kids getting in over their heads - the wilderness trip gone wrong, the ill advised stay in the creepy house, etc.. These are classics for a reason - the cockiness of youth leads to guaranteed trouble, and teenaged/young adult relationships are so fun to RP. Drama! For fantasy games, I actively try to avoid the most common tropes for character creation. My characters [I]never[/I] have links to nobility or were marked from birth or anything like that, they always come from fairly normal families (no orphans!), they don't have a super mysterious patron, none of that nonsense. I generally try to subvert tropes in my adventures, too. In the current campaign arc, the characters went to help a swamp village out by killing a local hag, except they failed and it turned out the villagers were more in the wrong than the hag was, so now they owe her and are questing to help her reconnect with her long lost coven...so the hags can go on a retreat to a beachside resort and catch up. But subverting tropes is super basic, especially if you came of age in the 80s/90s, so it's not like I'm being cutting edge or anything. Cosmic horror/Lovecraftian entities are a staple in most anything I run. Oh, and pirates. I like pirates in any genre. All the pirate tropes. Unironically. [/QUOTE]
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