What RPGs genres are lacking?

[aiouh]

I think SWAT/or R6-likes would be interesting.

In the game Ready or Not, players lead a police tactical unit to respond to emergency situations. The players are given the 911 distress call, intelligence about the culprit(s) (giving information about what tactics or arms they might use and how aggressive they are), tactical information about the infrastructure (revealed battlemaps) with the caveat that there will be some complications on-site (barricaded doors, traps, etc). The players then arm themselves according to the task at hand, set up a marching order, a general plan and ready their actions and try to complete this contained objective (module, one-shot) which might or might not resolve in a larger storyline.

I've always thought that Ready or Not looks a lot like a game that was adapted from a TRPG. Could be cool if it was adapted into a TRPG.

 

[Committed Hero]

I suspect that's related to Frank Gruber's assertion that there's only 7 plots for westerns.

For western movies, sure. But you could port plenty of modules from other settings into a western rpg setting.

 

[Committed Hero]

You've Fate to your left, Savage Worlds to your right - two big (by non-D&D standards) RPGs in their day. Also Outgunned.

SW published a Solomon Kane setting even.

I would say the Napoleonic era is pretty lightly explored.