What genres do you like?

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I go for science fiction mainly. I've also gone for fantasy, but I'm a little bit over that at the moment. Generally I avoid stuff that's too close to real life because part of the reason I like RPGs is as an escape from that.
 
I've played a lot of different genres over the years. Currently my interests lie in Sci-Fi, Superheroes, Horror, and Urban Fantasy
 
Mysteries, thrillers, clandestine ops, and the genre called “adventure” when classifying movies (though it’s a confusing term in the RPG context). I like to avoid epics and war stories where the stakes are too high and the conflict too open.

I like this so much that I use its structures and conventions in SF and fantasy settings.
 
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Horror is my favourite genre to referee and I have a good success rate with them compared (seemingly) with other referees. My group is partial to supernatural/investigation games, so Call of Cthulhu and Beyond the Supernatural are popular.

Superheroes is my favourite genre to play, but rarely get the chance. I'm very picky about rules system and even moreso about playstyle.

Science-Fiction is more popular with my group than fantasy, but when we have new players, we'll switch to Dungeons & Dragons for a while if it's what they want. I like a wide range of science-fiction settings, with Cyberpunk 2020 perhaps being my favourite set of rules.
 
I’d say I don’t like fantasy much but I’m really enjoying playing TOR.
I like sci-fi but I really didn’t enjoy Traveller recently.
I enjoyed Twilight 2000 and would like to play more but I don’t tend to like games without a supernatural or fantastic element.
 
I don't like horror in any form (apart from maybe H.P. Lovecraft's books). I guess I'm squeamish.

I can't get into supers games, which is odd because I like the hero protagonist trope in other genres, and I watched all the Marvel stuff. I used to be a huge superhero comics fan. But I just can't do supers in RPGs.

Apart from that, anything goes.
 
I love superheroes. I know a lot of people seem to struggle finding their Goldilocks supers system or getting the tone right in game, but I just think supers and roleplaying are a match made in heaven. Supers brings together tons of vivid action and investigation with intrinsically unique characters. You get to make the world a better place and look after the little guy but punching people. And, depending how you do it, nobody needs to die (we'll maybe some unnamed NPCs might occasionally ie off screen, but they don't count do they?).

I'm also a big post-apocalyptic fan, but only of the more B-movie, heroic variety, not the grim survival kill someone for a can of soup stuff. Some might say that is basically just superheroes in the future, and they wouldn't be wrong.

I also like soft sci-fi, like Star Wars or Bulldogs!. Let's not worry about things like physics and just focus on shooting our pew-pew lasers at those bug-eyed monsters.

I am just a big child, really.
 
I play in all genres although due to the people I play with d20 fantasy (D&D, Parhfinder) tends to be the most common genre even though I am pretty sick of it.

My preferences, and things I tend to run, are sword & sorcery (Barbarians of Lemuria), cyberpunk (CP2020), old west (Boot Hill, Aces & Eights), as well as ICRPG, any Palladium game, Gamma World/Mutant Future, and light hearted sci fi games.
 
Though I'm not big into horror books or movies it just happened that (according to my players) I'm pretty good at running games in that genre. The good thing is that it mixes very well with other genres (Sci-fi, Western, Historical, Fantasy...). My longest campaign so far is the Laundry. Next campaign is Shadow of Atlantis and of course I want to run Children of Fear as a 1990s Hong-Kong action flick.

Next is Sci-fi. I'm pretty burned out on Fantasy right now.
 
Superhero, horror, urban fantasy, sword & sorcery fantasy, sometimes pulp adventure
 
My favourite genres to run are probably Post-Apocalyptic, (Euro) Pulp Adventure and (mostly straight-up) Western.

I love all kinds of Horror so I'll throw elements of that in with everything at times. Fantasy-wise I lean more towards stuff like Sword & Sorcery, Low Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Arabian Nights. I also enjoy Pirate Fantasy a lot and last but not least Space Opera. Most of the time I like to infuse things with a bit of a retro and/or camp vibe when it feels fitting.
 
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Anything with magic in it, or magic by another name (i.e., psionics, super powers).

I mostly play Sword & Sorcery/High Fantasy, but also like Gonzo Fantasy, Science Fantasy, Superheroes and have been getting an itch for modern Urban Fantasy. Sci-fi is cool tool, specially if it has psionics or Jedi powers in it. Cyberpunk is my favorite genre for non-magic, but even then I prefer it with magic/psionics.
 
Fantasy and Sci-Fi for preference. I generally avoid horror/occult/nWoD games because I'm not a fan of the setting, and though I love Cyberpunk as a genre I get very choosy when it comes to playing games because of the sort of players they tend to attract.
 
PolarBlues said:
I love superheroes. I know a lot of people seem to struggle finding their Goldilocks supers system or getting the tone right in game, but I just think supers and roleplaying are a match made in heaven. Supers brings together tons of vivid action and investigation with intrinsically unique characters. You get to make the world a better place and look after the little guy but punching people. And, depending how you do it, nobody needs to die (we'll maybe some unnamed NPCs might occasionally ie off screen, but they don't count do they?).
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I love superhero games but .... I want them to be less about biffing people and more about transforming the world into a better place.
 
My favorites are horror, surreal/bizarre, superhero, historical, and some types of science fiction.

Having said that, I have been running a D&D 5E game for several years now, because that's what my group is into.
 
Trying not to sound pretentious... I don't think I can stick to isolated genres... like, I want to add horror to fantasy, fantasy to scifi, scifi to crime... etc. Not that I won't play/read/watch anything that is JUST fantasy... but I'll like it better if its spiced up with other sorts of tropes as well.
The more the smudge together, the harder it is to pigeonhole, the happier I am... but I do need some sort of underpinning, cosmology, to it all... not just kitchen sink.
 
Space opera first and foremost. I'd probably include Rockets & Rayguns retro sci-fi in this, though I do consider them to be different. Blending in a bit of fantasy is cool, but not too much. I don't particularly care for so-called "hard" science fiction games.

Planetary romance. I especially have a soft spot for John Carter and Barsoom.

WW2 era action-adventure (aka: pulp). Or really any action-adventure that runs until about the 1990's. Any later and I start to lose interest.

Sword and Sorcery. The closer to Conan and Hyperborea in particular, the better.

Age of Sail / Renaissance era fantasy. If I'm gonna do high fantasy, this is how I'm going to do it. If I never play in another medieval game again, it'll be entirely too soon. I recognize there's some overlap in terms of real-world timeline, but the less the Middle Ages are present, the better.
 
I do have a penchant for stuff that straddles genres. Too much Rifts as a kid probably.

My sword and sorcery games often have a touch of the post-apocalyptic, and sometimes more than a touch of horror.

My horror games all tend to be thrillers with elements of investigation, intrigue and action at turns.

Ditto my SF games, where I like to derive added tension from a hard(ish) take on physics. (Within constraints of backdrop genre — Star Wars ≠ Eclipse Phase)

I haven’t really had the chance to play with supers as much as I’d like but I really enjoyed Godbound’s combination of supers with high fantasy including epic domain play.
 
I generally like Horror, Wuxia and certain flavors of Fantasy. Enjoy other things too but that seems to be what I run the most these days. I like science fiction outside RPGs, but have never been very huge into sci-fi RPGs themselves (enjoy campaigns when they are offered, but it isn't a genre I gravitate towards as a player)
 
Simlasa said:
Trying not to sound pretentious... I don't think I can stick to isolated genres... like, I want to add horror to fantasy, fantasy to scifi, scifi to crime... etc.
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I’ve always loved using Superheroes to play CoC scenarios

“I’ll hold off the Dark Young if you can keep that amulet away from the Byakhee!”
 
PolarBlues said:
I am just a big child, really.
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When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

- C.S. Lewis
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You keep good company.
 
The Butcher said:
Too much Rifts as a kid probably.
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There's no such thing as "Too much Rifts", only too much Palladium System.

But yeah, I prefer stuff that adds bits of different genres into a coherent whole. "Fantasy" alone is not good enough for me. I like "Fantasy", but the old world collapsed and now new civilizations are beginning to emerge out of the cataclysm. Or "Fantasy" and there's a demonic incursion or monstrous creatures from another world invading the land and characters have to fight them off to survive, etc.

There's something about matching different genres together that brings them to life and makes them more than just another thing from X or Y genre.
 
Yes, I'd play that, too...:grin:

I play and run, in no particular order, swashbuckling, wuxia, pulp, SF, thriller, crime, urban fantasy, noir, cyberpunk, S&S, low/dark fantasy, other kinds of fantasy, horror, superheroes, westerns (but I've never ran one of the latter two) and combinations of the above. I'm a gaming pig:thumbsup:!
 
IN addition to my previous entry...

I like Martial Arts Genre, but only managed to complete one solid chronicle in it. Modern setting, kinda neat. Too much John Woo in my troupe's life at that point. Would of loved a swashbuckling game, but it never came through.

I do like Cyberpunk and have played more than my fair share. Same with westerns strangely enough. I don't love these genres, but I have played them more than my attachment to them indicates.
 
While I enjoy a bit of Si-Fi from time to time, fantasy is my go-to genre. I don't mind a bit of horror mixed in with my Si-Fi or Fantasy, but I don't like horror on its own that much. No interest in supers whatsoever.
 
Urban Fantasy - Modern + magic and monsters = win.
Supers - Modern + superpowers also = win.
Fantasy - At least I think so. But now that I'm thinking about it, the only fantasy stuff I'm really interested in right now is Fantasy Craft and Lords of Gossamer & Shadow.
Sci-Fi - Maybe. Theoretically. Whenever I actually get to play in a game that has the kind of feel that watching the unjustly canceled Dark Matter gave me, I'll let you know.

I have slight interest in a few other genres, and will try pretty much anything for a one-shot. Within reason, of course.
 
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