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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9609031" data-attributes="member: 4937">I will admit to having very little breadth to my RPG experiences.I have only played various types of fantasy - generic fantasy, horror fantasy, and science fantasy.  I have very little idea how to run or tell stories in other genres for an RPG and indeed, can't imagine how they would work from either a system or narrative perspective.I can imagine a fantasy supers game, but can't imagine particularly compelling stories within it, and well, it would still be a genre of fantasy.  I understand some people like supers, but don't have a particularly good understanding of what they actually do when playing it.I really can't imagine hard science fiction.  I find it interesting that Traveller, which seems to be the best of the bunch, almost seems to actively avoid narratives set in the primary universe in comparison to crash landing the players on a primitive planet or finding a derelict spaceship or finding some super science mystery and then running some other genre.  I've been playing Minecraft on a server with other adults for the first time, and I've noticed and marveled at how differently everyone is playing the game.  I had thought the way I was playing was intuitive and obvious and fun, but I notice everyone else is doing different things and finding fun in different ways some of which make me scratch my head ("Why don't you light up your base so creepers don't appear randomly?" or "Why don't you build stairs so you don't have to jump around your base?").  I suspect that actually sitting in on really different groups would be just as informative and inspirational (and infuriating?), and I have long tried to broaden my horizons by going to cons and such, but still haven't yet had that "Eureka" moment where I sit at a table doing wildly different things that I'm used to where what they are doing feels like a new form of fun I hadn't considered.</blockquote>

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