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<blockquote data-quote="steenan" data-source="post: 5065242" data-attributes="member: 23240">I wouldn't like an RPG that explores a &quot;trendy&quot; real-world issue, a topic from the headlines. There is enough of it in papers, TV and the net and I find it very irritating to hear about the same thing over and over, no matter if it is direct or metaphorical.Anyway, I like RPGs that create parallels to real-world situations and issues. Or, more general: I like to feel that what we do in the session is in some way important, something more than a mere game. Making choices and exploring situations that are fictional, but allude to things that matter to us in real life brings this kind of weight.And it's this kind of choices that I like most in my RPGs. A scenario that has a predefined moral would be uninteresting at best and infuriating at worst (if I disagreed with the moral). But putting my character in a situation where I can't have it all and I must choose what I value more - that brings immersion and emotion. A good GM takes something we face everyday and, using a fantastic world, makes it epic. I does not, of course, mean, that I require a game to create catharsis to call it a good one. The rest is also fun to play. It's fun to explore, it's fun to roleplay interesting characters, it's fun to overcome challenges. But it is this one session in twenty, or even fifty, that moves me this way - the session I remember even after many years have passed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steenan, post: 5065242, member: 23240"] I wouldn't like an RPG that explores a "trendy" real-world issue, a topic from the headlines. There is enough of it in papers, TV and the net and I find it very irritating to hear about the same thing over and over, no matter if it is direct or metaphorical. Anyway, I like RPGs that create parallels to real-world situations and issues. Or, more general: I like to feel that what we do in the session is in some way important, something more than a mere game. Making choices and exploring situations that are fictional, but allude to things that matter to us in real life brings this kind of weight. And it's this kind of choices that I like most in my RPGs. A scenario that has a predefined moral would be uninteresting at best and infuriating at worst (if I disagreed with the moral). But putting my character in a situation where I can't have it all and I must choose what I value more - that brings immersion and emotion. A good GM takes something we face everyday and, using a fantastic world, makes it epic. I does not, of course, mean, that I require a game to create catharsis to call it a good one. The rest is also fun to play. It's fun to explore, it's fun to roleplay interesting characters, it's fun to overcome challenges. But it is this one session in twenty, or even fifty, that moves me this way - the session I remember even after many years have passed. [/QUOTE]

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