What tropes do you want to see more of in fantasy RPGs?

[Bohandas]

Horror Comedy - Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, John Dies at the End, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, The Baby Sitter, Zombieland, et al.

Does that include the wackier kind of horror comedy too? (ie. Young Frankenstein, Scary Movie, Vampires Suck, What We Do In The Shadows, RePossessed, Dracula Dead And Loving It, Space Zombie Bingo, 30 Nights Of Paranormal Activity With The Devil Inside the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Paranormal Movie, etc)

 

[Minigiant]

Official councils, unions, or alliances of nations, countries, organizations, and races.

Because you get more nations, a major threat of some sort, and all the drama of different groups of people in an official alliance while not agreeing with each other on many things.

 

[Silvercat Moonpaw]

More religions based on ideas other than pseudo-polytheism/henotheism.

There may be quite a number of these around and I'm just not noticing. But I feel like there could be more.

 

[Ixal]

More religions based on ideas other than pseudo-polytheism/henotheism.

Or at least polytheism done right.

 

[Silvercat Moonpaw]

Or at least polytheism done right.

Preferably ones not based off Greek or Norse gods.

 

[AtomicPope]

Does that include the wackier kind of horror comedy too? (ie. Young Frankenstein, Scary Movie, Vampires Suck, What We Do In The Shadows, RePossessed, Dracula Dead And Loving It, Space Zombie Bingo, 30 Nights Of Paranormal Activity With The Devil Inside the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Paranormal Movie, etc)

Yes, absolutely but I left out classics like Young Frankenstein because when it comes to RPGs the action comedies translate better. Although, What We Do in the Shadows would be a great style for roleplaying Vampire the Masquerade.

 

[Ixal]

Preferably ones not based off Greek or Norse gods.

I would even take a greek copy over "Here are 50 gods that all definitely exist. Pick one"

 

[Campbell]

Games that are more focused on directly grounding characters in the world, giving them context, obligations and connections. Less wandering vagabonds and epic quests please.

 

[Tun Kai Poh]

Apparent objective GOOD triumphing over apparent and objective EVIL.

GOOD guys who are GOOD guys. Villains who are BAD, knowingly EVIL, and NOT to be admired or emulated.

Protagonists who are HEROES with admirable qualities. NOT everyone being a misunderstood broody anti-hero, double-triple-quadruple crossing agents, or reformed villain with a heart of gold.

I want ETHICS to clearly mean something. MORES mean something. ALIGNMENTS mean something.

That's what I want to see.

Romance of the Perilous Land has you covered, then!

 

[Hussar]

I've mentioned this elsewhere, but, I'd love to see a more SF approach to world building than fantasy. As in, building actually functioning worlds instead of simply taking the real world, pasting over a couple of monsters and calling it a day.

I want my mobile halfling villages riding on treants, I want flying cities with rocs travelling between. I want an actual fantasy landscape instead of yet more quasi-European Ren Faire stuff.