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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8269308"><p>Just an obversation I have noticed when people say they want genre, that really can mean two different things. It can mean they want a game that emulates the story logic and style of a genre (which could include things like flashbacks and scenes where the police showing up drives things in a more dramatic direction), or it could mean they just want genre tropes and they want a world or setting built with those tropes in mind. I think for folks who want the former, D&D is going to be perfectly serviceable. You may need to modify things, impose some restrictions on classes or spells, bring in optional classes and feats, but you can run it with D&D. But if you are going for the latter, then I think you are going to want games that specifically model those things (and you can hack D&D to make it do those things as well, but it will take more work). My sense about this stuff is too often we see this as a zero sum game: either indie games win or D&D wins. But really a better approach is to identify what it is someone really wants, and then give advice for connecting them with a system that will really do that (even if it means they don't go for the game we hope more people play: whether that game is D&D or blades in the dark). I got to a point where I don't really enjoy playing D&D that much anymore. Once in a while I want a D&D experience. But even then I tend to lean more on older editions these days. And when I want genre games, I am open to different approaches, but tend to lean on the genre trope setting approach rather than the emulation of the style and story approach. So for me, Savage Worlds is a good, go to genre game.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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