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In my experience, it's not uncommon for skill-based games to still have some class-based elements. This often comes in the form of...

At the very least you need to acknowledge there are games that land well in a muddy ground in between. Any class based game with a...

I fully agree, and I normally go this way. I always have dozen of books of different topics laying around. But as I said, it's been a...

I’m a very big believer in feeding your brain what it wants to read, within very broad limits. I’ve got times when one or more of my...

You can make an argument that's also what almost all Patricia Briggs urban fantasy books are, too.

You seem to have assumed I was suggesting they were Westerns. I was not. I was noting this was a case of a crossover between the...

Two examples I had in mind, in fact, though the Resident Evil movies land there, too.

The idea that "farmer" is inherently something like "Old Order Amish" is obviously wrong and probably a problem.

Sometimes, that’s where I stop, then consider deleting my prospective post. Or actually do. However, I occasionally also think about...

And yet things are called action-horror all the time. There's usually one of two things going on when that's the case: 1. The main...

We pause here to wave at Mr. Calvin Morris, the inexplicable cowboy in Dracula.

In fact there's a fairly well known example of this (mixed with horror): Penny Dreadful. Though its mostly set in Victorian England...

There's also, in the past at least, been a tendency to focus very heavily on what would be read as single-genre things, enough so that...

Yes, but this thread isn't dedicated just to D&D. If you prefer, you can adjust my statement to "Everything is not about D&D, you...