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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 4808001" data-attributes="member: 3448">There are few RPGs I categorically won't play, with the right group of players/GMs/etc.  I much prefer 3e to 2e AD&D, but I'd play a 2nd Ed game with the right set of people.There are a couple that come close, though, because I find that even with a group of players I really like, I don't end up having much fun because of the play style the game encourages.  Feng Shui stands out as the unusual game that I dislike that many people like; lots of people I know love the game, and I've played it with people who I think are in general awesome gamers who I really like playing with, but I just haven't had fun.  It ends up feeling like empty narration to me-- not interesting as a game, and not interesting in terms of character or story, just empty descriptions of fights over boring combat mechanics.  (As I said, many people I respect a whole lot disagree, but that's my experience with it.)Primetime Adventures or other games where there is a frame of a TV show or some other remove also don't work well for me.  I want to pretend to be a character in a fantasy world, not pretend to be a character in a TV show-- the second level of indirection kills too much of the excitement.  I note that I can have lots of fun playing a game like Buffy or Star Wars or whatever, but when I play those games, I don't think of myself as playing a character in a TV show or movie-- I imagine the events really happening, in the same way as when you immerse yourself in a movie instead of thinking about it as "oh, nice acting, and that's a very pretty camera angle."All that said, I'll play a really wide range of games, at least as sometimes things.</blockquote>

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