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Nice Pants (nicepants) wrote in modcooperative,
@ 2015-12-27 01:16:00

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advice, general questions

Is it just me, or are there only a handful of RP options around these days? Everything is either a) Harry Potter, b) superheroes, c) supernatural-themed, d) celeb/faux celeb. And the few games that don't follow the "norm" are basically gpsls with little to no activity going on.

This isn't a complaint, really. I'm genuinely curious. Is that all the majority of people are interested in?

Any tips for getting a game off the ground which doesn't include the aforementioned settings?

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fjords
2016-03-17 03:12 pm UTC (link)

A gazillion months later just because I want to chime in my 2c -- I definitely agree with anon here. Part of the problem is that there's tons of small unique canons that I would love to explore in a non-panfandom setting (the VFD in A Series of Unfortunate Events! The Half-Made World! Galavant-esque fantasy satire! a Fast and the Furious GPSL!), but the odds of getting together a cohort of good like-minded interested players is, well, tough. So wider umbrellas like superheroes/paranormal tend to be the most popular game premises.

nicepants, is there an itch in particular that you want but haven't gotten scratched? I've seen some other stuff -- e.g. zombies, spies, Final Fantasy -- do the rounds sometimes, so there's definitely room for other things that aren't panfan/HP/superheroes/paranormal/celeb. It's just more rare, as you've noticed.

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