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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 8670244" data-attributes="member: 16586">The two things aren't really related in my mind except in so far that people who like playing shorter form character focused games also tend to be novelty seeking in general. I know that's true of me both inside and outside of gaming. I own and play a bunch of indie games, trad games and OSR games because I like games. I also have a fairly large board game collection, movie collection, watch a whole host of different anime and TV series. I go through different phases of being into different sorts of exercise routines. Right now I'm into body building, but could easily get back into Crossfit or Muay Thai / Juijitsu. Might even give climbing a go soon.None of that like makes me better. Just more eclectic.I do know a bunch of people who are into more short form character focused stuff who tend to stick to one game or one family of games. Fate, World of Darkness, Cortex, 2d20 are all pretty common choices. There was a period of like 3 years where I only ran Sorcerer. Same for D&D 4e. Was considering going deep into Pathfinder Second Edition for a minute. Also went through a World of Darkness phase and a Chronicles of Darkness phase.   <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♀️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2640.png" title="Woman shrugging    :woman_shrugging:" data-shortname=":woman_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />I will say trad games are generally require some effort to learn, but the juice is worth the squeeze for games that I plan to run or play for 12+ months. OSR games are a little easier to learn, especially streamlined ones like Into The Odd or The Nightmares Underneath. Games like Blades in the Dark or Apocalypse World are fairly trivial for players. Not that any of this particularly matters for character focused play in general. I just like different sorts of games, about different sorts of characters. That's a me thing.</blockquote>

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