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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8594846" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't mean to trivialise your situation - but this seems like a complaint that you want to join a book club and read Joyce's Ulysses, or perhaps Smith's On Beauty, while everyone else wants to read Stephen King. Or a complaint that all your friends will only ever go and watch MCU films, and you'd rather go and see a Hal Hartley revival.Faced with these sorts of aesthetic mismatches, I can see two options: try and educate your friends; or find new ones.The first is possible, among mature adults with a range of interests. Back when I was young and had all the time in the world I used to attend the Melbourne Cinematheque, and got my best friend to come along even though I think he would have preferred the latest Bruce Willis vehicle.My current RPG group was built out of two former groups and was originally focused on 4e D&D, but in the past five or six years we've played (at various times, and with various configurations of participants) Burning Wheel, MHRP/Cortex+ Heroic, Classic Traveller, Prince Valiant, Cthulhu Dark, Wuthering Heights, The Green Knight, Torchbearer, The Dying Earth, Agon, In A Wicked Age, and maybe others I'm forgetting, as well as 4e and AD&D. Old dogs can learn new tricks.The second option also seems pretty feasible, if you have access to online play or live in a town or city of reasonable size. There are near-to-mainstream RPGs these days that are focused on real characters: various flavours of PbtA and Fate are probably the best-known ones.</blockquote>

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