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Fair enough. To each their own, but I generally take play too seriously to enjoy fourth wall breaking unless comedy is the point.

Trek has plenty of stuff in the narrative layer, no doubt. But not the examples you gave. Those are scientific, natural phenomenon...

I see what you're saying. I guess for me Lara Croftian plot armor is part of a genre like pulp, but I agree that generally speaking it's...

Yeah that might be a better characterization of the kind of character I tend to like than hero per se, although my current PC is more of...

Personally I prefer playing veteran characters rather than hormonally still unstable teenagers. But then even so, the "knows nothing...

Well Croft (and other pulp heroes) are very much in genre, though you're right that the general pulp genre (which is very broad; I'd...

My issue here though is that all those things you mentioned for Trek are considered scientific facts (and in fact are such) in universe...

Are we roleplaying psychological novels? I am pretty confused about attributing to Chesterton the idea that enduring tales must have a...

I lean towards normal, with the caveat that in a world of monsters, their normal can probably already handle some tough situations.

I don't have a particular preference. I happily play both extremes and everything in between, depending on game and genre.

Totally. The idea of a secondary reality (as opposed to concepts like suspension of disbelief) is very liberating in my view. A game...

I'm all right with it not being realistic as long as it is honest about doing it. 100% people should play what they like and if they...

I've played a ton of STA. I'm not a Trekkie by any stretch of the imagination but the game is super fun. The game system reads strangely...

I love STA (mostly because I love Star Trek), but for me it is a specific departure from the type of gaming I usually enjoy, with all...

I agree. It has a lot of SCP vibes, just like Control.