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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 8550535" data-attributes="member: 20323">Thanks for your suggestions. Please keep them coming!So far, I've heard...<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dark Comedy / Comedy Horror – &quot;Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Meets D&amp;D&quot; from [USER=6798775]@Ath-kethin[/USER] or &quot;D&amp;D meets Evil Dead 2&quot; from [USER=19857]@Jer[/USER]</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sci-fi Horror Drama – &quot;Stranger Things meets D&amp;D&quot; from [USER=6796241]@OB1[/USER]</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sci-Fi/Slasher/Monster Horror – &quot;Event Horizon, The Descent, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Silent Hill&quot; from [USER=6796241]@OB1[/USER]</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">&quot;Wild and random evil&quot; – from [USER=7032025]@Lyxen[/USER]</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Survival Horror – &quot;Apocalypse Now&quot; &amp; &quot;Heart of Darkness&quot; from [USER=19857]@Jer[/USER] and [USER=6785785]@hawkeyefan[/USER]</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Psychological Horror – from [USER=7025997]@Blue Orange[/USER]</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Magical Realism and/or Surrealism – &quot;Borges and Dali meet D&amp;D&quot; from [USER=7025997]@Blue Orange[/USER]</li>
</ul>Over on reddit someone mentioned: &quot;It'd be fun to do a Film Noir/hard boiled detective genre. Everyone is a threat, but the knives/pistols only get pulled in dark alley ways, or when you're least expecting it. Topple a person of power just by showing their weakness, no fireballs thrown, then have your ally turn on you showing you've only made things worse.&quot;I was thinking of where the Venn diagram overlap is between these different approaches, and I've been wondering whether the &quot;New Weird&quot; fantasy sub-genre might be a good fit. It's not a genre I'm terribly familiar with, having never read China Miéville, Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, or any of the others writing in that genre; all I know is that the genre was part of the inspiration for the Planescape setting and Perdido Street Station is mentioned in the 5e PHB as a source of inspiration.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 8550535, member: 20323"] Thanks for your suggestions. Please keep them coming! So far, I've heard... [LIST] [*]Dark Comedy / Comedy Horror – "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Meets D&D" from [USER=6798775]@Ath-kethin[/USER] or "D&D meets Evil Dead 2" from [USER=19857]@Jer[/USER] [*]Sci-fi Horror Drama – "Stranger Things meets D&D" from [USER=6796241]@OB1[/USER] [*]Sci-Fi/Slasher/Monster Horror – "Event Horizon, The Descent, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Silent Hill" from [USER=6796241]@OB1[/USER] [*]"Wild and random evil" – from [USER=7032025]@Lyxen[/USER] [*]Survival Horror – "Apocalypse Now" & "Heart of Darkness" from [USER=19857]@Jer[/USER] and [USER=6785785]@hawkeyefan[/USER] [*]Psychological Horror – from [USER=7025997]@Blue Orange[/USER] [*]Magical Realism and/or Surrealism – "Borges and Dali meet D&D" from [USER=7025997]@Blue Orange[/USER] [/LIST] Over on reddit someone mentioned: [I]"It'd be fun to do a Film Noir/hard boiled detective genre. Everyone is a threat, but the knives/pistols only get pulled in dark alley ways, or when you're least expecting it. Topple a person of power just by showing their weakness, no fireballs thrown, then have your ally turn on you showing you've only made things worse."[/I] I was thinking of where the Venn diagram overlap is between these different approaches, and I've been wondering whether the "New Weird" fantasy sub-genre might be a good fit. It's not a genre I'm terribly familiar with, having never read China Miéville, Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, or any of the others writing in that genre; all I know is that the genre was part of the inspiration for the Planescape setting and [I]Perdido Street Station[/I] is mentioned in the 5e PHB as a source of inspiration. [/QUOTE]

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