fantasy style role-plays and why I dislike them

[Akirapryde]

Andre I don't think I could have said it better. Just because one person wants an apple and another person wants an orange. That doesn't mean you have to have only apples or oranges. You can have both. But as I said, it's all too often in fantasy genre role play games. What ends up happening is all of the role play gets set to the side or use as fillers outside of the monster of the week. And it really hit home yesterday. When we were talking about it and all of a sudden it's like the epiphany. That's what I dislike about fantasy games, because that's the destination all Fantasy games seem to come to.uu

Liz is partially right, what you put into it is what you get out of it. So yes I see her point. I know it doesn't have to be that way, but all too often it does.

It's the whole idea of a two-dimensional World set around a two dimensional plot with two dimensional characters. it's frustrating and it drives me crazy.

I have one bit of "Thank God," Heralds of the Hornblower is not like that.

Again, I don't want anyone to think that this is a critique of Harold Hornblower, the way Andre runs his game, or the way anyone runs their character. This was just my epiphany of why I can't stand fantasy-based games.