A new rpg publisher has been added to the database: Psychogenesis Games

by SiarX

Whymme wrote:

SiarX wrote:

There are hundreds of successful fantasy (including Cthulhu, vampires, etc) tabletop RPGs. Yet for some reason there are extremely few space RPGs, that managed to become somewhat popular. And even they are nowhere close to success of top fantasy RPGs, like D&D, Pathfinder and others. A pity, since space setting is awesome as well. I wonder why such stark difference.

For one, you stretch fantasy to include horror games like CoC and all its derivatives plus the WoD games like Vt, plus everything that appeared in its wake, and at the same time you shrink the SF field to only space settings. That means that not only a whole slew of cyberpunk and other Earth tech RPGs are excluded, but also planet-based SF like Blue Planer and the Ringworld RPG.
So if you ask ‘why are there so many games in this field, of which I define the limits so much that we can include everything plus the kitchen sink, and so few games in this other field, of which I constrain the limits so much that a lot of popular games are not included’, part of the answer lies in the way you ask the question.

Well Cthulhu etc may be excluded from comparison, and still fantasy clearly dominates.

by SiarX

Karkared wrote:

GrimoireOfJank wrote:

I'm not sure, either. In movies Sci-Fi is certainly far more common than Fantasy (especially if you count superheroes as Sci-fi or sci-fantasy, which I would)...
Honestly I feel like there's more notable subgenre games then general sci-fi games

I might be wrong but I first wrote for scifi, then realized the question was about space itself rather than scifi. OP might want to confirm.

By space I mean sci-fi outside of Earth.

by HiveGod

Related Item: Eat the Reich

It came to me in a dream~

The night before, I was stressing the session. "Story" games like this almost always have weird, immersion-breaking mechanisms where you have to "advance dice to raise the stakes in a poker game for narrative control" (or whatnot) instead of, you know, just rolling to see if you did the thing you wanted to do (BANG and done). Here, the mechanisms are relatively straighforward—the GM and the player roll dice, successes are used to either defend against the GM's successes, advance the objective, or reduce the threat—but it still ends up being a bit "bookkeepy" and I just knew I would have players at the table who would ask, for the umpteenth time, "Wait, how much is left on the objective again?" ad nauseam.

Luckily, my unconscious chewed at the problem through a montage of me thrashing in bed, sweaty with fever dreams—and I woke with the answer: turn the blank map into a visual reference for the whole table! No more bookkeeping! Everyone can see the current game state, with various values between different objectives and threats, as well as any added difficulty.

It was pretty great, actually, and made my job infinitely easier—and it let everyone focus on the story, rather than obsess over a bunch of numbers.

A new episode has been added to the database: Practical Magic Systems: What Rules Matter?

A new episode has been added to the database: Session 29 - Pulling Strings (Part III)

A new episode has been added to the database: ONE PIECE D&D: MARINES #73 | "Chaos and Confusion"

A new episode has been added to the database: EP231 | A Timely Visit Part 19 - Changing Seasons | 30/07/2026

by Professor X

Thank you for letting me know!

by Scott_Romanowski

$20.00 for RPG Item: B2: The Keep on the Borderlands
Condition: Good
Location: United States

by lawingm

I've only played one supers game and got a pre-gen, iirc.

I tended towards the antihero types when I read comics. Gambit, The Punisher (before that was co-opted by fascists), and Wolverine being my favorites. I don't think I really read much of the Superman/all-around superhero type stuff. I'd be interested in trying some different systems and archetypes, though.

by skalchemist

An item Setting: New Burgh has been added to the geeklist Missing Images: Settings with no logo