What Genre Do You Wish Inaugurated TTRPGs?

[Autumnal]

I find melee combat very much foundational in supers. Fights often start at a distance, but then opponents close, and what’s decisive is usually right up close and personal even when characters have ranged powers.

 

[soviet]

At least, that's my view currently. I'll expound upon it at some point in that book.

The Snarfarillion

 

[Autumnal]

The Snarfarillion

One Hundred Twenty Days of Snarf
One Hundred Years of Snarf
War and Snarf
Snarf and Punishment
Seven Snarfs in May
Snarf Meridian

 

[soviet]

Snarfonomics

 

[Autumnal]

A Day in the Life of Ivan Snarf
Romance of the Three Snarfs
As Snarf Lay Dying

Done now.

 

[J.Quondam]

Fifty Shades of Snar--

Umm, nevermind.

 

[Autumnal]

Fifty Shades of Snar--

Umm, nevermind.

Does the phrase “Dear God, no!” Mean anything to you?

 

[soviet]

My eyes!!!

 

[Autumnal]

(Song provided here for its chorus.)

 

[Reynard]

Well.

Anyway, I personally wouldn't have preferred it, but there was a moment there where a gunslinger Old West game might have been the first RPG. Playing at the World has more info, but long story short: some players in England were running a hero focused persistent "cowboys" wargame that caught Gygax's attention in the zines. At the time it appears to have been pretty well along the track of turning into a proper RPG, but Gygax lifted some ideas from it. I don't think it had character progression tho.