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Message: <blockquote data-quote="innerdude" data-source="post: 9315353" data-attributes="member: 85870">To a certain degree I think this true. Again, it's a difference of perspective, but that perspective makes a difference in approach to play. For vanilla SNN (Story-Now Narrative), the genre is important because it focuses the available premises. Neotrad looks at genre as an important (but not singular) boundary that limits character trait selection.  I'm not so sure about this for both vanilla SNN and neotrad. Neotrad does for sure; the reward of playing Batman is to engage fully in the premise of being Batman, and the better one fulfills the role in the game, the more Batman-y themes and stories emerge. I don't think SNN looks at genre and goes, "Hmmm, I really enjoy pontificating on just how screwed up your average screwed up post-nuclear apocalypse actually is." It's more interested in watching the characters navigate the landscape of it. If a particular element of the shared fiction stands out or has a key role, it's only in the interest of getting characters moving forward within the premise.</blockquote>