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<blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 3907578" data-attributes="member: 3820">In my experience, there's &quot;open to&quot; and there's &quot;enthusiastic about.&quot; I think my players would be open to a highly political game, and I've considered running a kingmaker-themed game where the PCs are essentially looking to take a corrupt emperor out of office and put a good man in his place. However, if there's some other campaign model out there that they and I are enthusiastic about, that wins over something we're just open to. The level of enthusiasm in a game tends to dictate whether it runs at station wagon or drag strip speed. If players aren't as enthusiastic about lobbying political agendas and drawing up plans of action to overhaul a kingdom's military/industrial complex as they are about fighting the living dead in a cemetery the size of a small town, then the fight in the necropolis is a really competitive option, and possibly the superior option. That's why you may find that some people aren't even really interested in trying something like that out. It may be a really good experience, but if there's something else they could do that they're more enthusiastic about, even &quot;really good&quot; might not be enough when they compare it to what they think they could be getting. If a political game is like a good game of chess and an action-packed, low-consequences bloodbath is like sex, and the nature of&nbsp; RPGs is that you may really only have time and energy for one, well, chess is a good game, but...And yes, perhaps the political game is more like sex for some gamers. I think most of those folks are already converts to that style of play, though, assuming they've followed their enthusiasm.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Barastrondo, post: 3907578, member: 3820"] In my experience, there's "open to" and there's "enthusiastic about." I think my players would be open to a highly political game, and I've considered running a kingmaker-themed game where the PCs are essentially looking to take a corrupt emperor out of office and put a good man in his place. However, if there's some other campaign model out there that they and I are enthusiastic about, that wins over something we're just open to. The level of enthusiasm in a game tends to dictate whether it runs at station wagon or drag strip speed. If players aren't as enthusiastic about lobbying political agendas and drawing up plans of action to overhaul a kingdom's military/industrial complex as they are about fighting the living dead in a cemetery the size of a small town, then the fight in the necropolis is a really competitive option, and possibly the superior option. That's why you may find that some people aren't even really interested in trying something like that out. It may be a really good experience, but if there's something else they could do that they're more enthusiastic about, even "really good" might not be enough when they compare it to what they think they could be getting. If a political game is like a good game of chess and an action-packed, low-consequences bloodbath is like sex, and the nature of RPGs is that you may really only have time and energy for one, well, chess is a good game, but... And yes, perhaps the political game is more like sex for some gamers. I think most of those folks are already converts to that style of play, though, assuming they've followed their enthusiasm. [/QUOTE]

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