TTRPG Genres You Just Can't Get Into -and- Tell Me Why I'm Wrong About X Genre I Don't Like

[MGibster]

I always kind of Marvel at people who have never been struck with deep, existential dread when contemplating the size and age of the universe. How can you not be diminished to a whimpering mass by the endlessness of it all when you a such a finite, insignificant thing?

Ignorance is bliss. Sometimes in CoC your character needs to pass a skill test, Biology, Astronomy, maybe History, and only if the roll is successful does your character make a Sanity check. Sometimes in CoC it pays to be ignorant. When William Shatner went into orbit, he was he became profoundly depressed by the realization humans were so small. Hell, being near the ocean still leaves me in awe though it doesn't leave me depressed. It's one thing to know you're insignificant, but it's quite another thing to have your insignificance rubbed in your face.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Rick Priestly, the creator of 40K sites Lovercraft as one the his inspiration. It is there. We don't have to agree.

I don't think anyone, least of all me, is saying Lovecraft wasn't an inspiration for elements of the Chaos gods, particularly the appearance of chaos mutations and so on. What I'm saying is that the apparent specific complaint re: CoC was that the Mythos entities were behind everything (which is not unjustified in CoC, I would say) didn't actually apply to WH40K. Nor are the Chaos gods incomprehensible, for better or worse.

I always kind of Marvel at people who have never been struck with deep, existential dread when contemplating the size and age of the universe. How can you not be diminished to a whimpering mass by the endlessness of it all when you a such a finite, insignificant thing?

 

[Reynard]

Ignorance is bliss. Sometimes in CoC your character needs to pass a skill test, Biology, Astronomy, maybe History, and only if the roll is successful does your character make a Sanity check. Sometimes in CoC it pays to be ignorant. When William Shatner went into orbit, he was he became profoundly depressed by the realization humans were so small. Hell, being near the ocean still leaves me in awe though it doesn't leave me depressed. It's one thing to know you're insignificant, but it's quite another thing to have your insignificance rubbed in your face.

Sure but was responding to folks directly scoffing at existential horror.

 

[TiQuinn]

Who did it murder mystery - it depends to much on player skill, not character skill. Ones that move from player skill, they go to colaborative storytelling side

I would LOVE to play Brindlewood Bay but I absolutely know I am the only one in my group who digs that stuff.

 

[MGibster]

Sure but was responding to folks directly scoffing at existential horror.

Sure. I was agreeing with you. It's one thing to intellectually understand we're not very large, it's quite another thing to have that evidence staring you in the face.

 

[GrimCo]

I would LOVE to play Brindlewood Bay but I absolutely know I am the only one in my group who digs that stuff.

Read it, but i don't really like it mechanics wise. Don't get me wrong, i love murder mystery as a genre, grew up reading Agatha Christie and watching old british crime shows and old Scooby Doo cartoons. Just didn't find system with right balance of player skill and character skills. Tried to run that genre, tried playing in it, it just somehow doesn't hit the vibe. So i just tend to avoid it all together.

 

[chuckdee]

Rick Priestly, the creator of 40K sites Lovercraft as one the his inspiration. It is there. We don't have to agree.

It is there. However, what @Ruin Explorer was saying is that they are the scapegoats, even though they're there. And the official fiction supports that statement. They're aren't good, but they are not the only evil or even the ultimate one.

 

[TiQuinn]

Read it, but i don't really like it mechanics wise. Don't get me wrong, i love murder mystery as a genre, grew up reading Agatha Christie and watching old british crime shows and old Scooby Doo cartoons. Just didn't find system with right balance of player skill and character skills. Tried to run that genre, tried playing in it, it just somehow doesn't hit the vibe. So i just tend to avoid it all together.

Yeah, when I read it I was thinking this is cool but it really needs a verrrrry specific kind of play group to enjoy it.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Yeah, when I read it I was thinking this is cool but it really needs a verrrrry specific kind of play group to enjoy it.

Have run once, have played twice in my indie ttrpg group, and it's not for me. In fact just sold off my entire kickstarter rewards.
If you are willing to play online, I know there's a discord for the Gauntlet games that you should be able to find games...

 

[Starfox]

(As an aside, I'm not fully sure CoC should be counted as a "horror RPG", because mechanically it barely engages with horror at all.

What makes CoC horror for me is that the rules are so bare-bones. You can never count on success, combat is always lethal, and monsters are always dangerous. In a more advanced "balanced" rules set combat is survivable. Not so in CoC.

Free League's Alien has a similar setup and does horror the same way. Still not as brutal as CoC.