If you can remember that far back, that feeling you had when everything was new and you had the thrill of discovery.

Am I the only one that gets a little of that still by switching to another genre like Apoc instead of the same old D&D Fantasy clone.

I mean it is not as much, because I now have expectations but, still, there is some freshness and tingle of newness.

I've all but dumped traditional dungeon fantasy in favor of other genres for precisely that reason. I still get the thrill of possibility from sci-fi, modern, and post-apocalypse games, whereas that train left the fantasy station long ago.

To be fair, though, I do still get that thrill if I delve off into a completely new system or completely new group of players, so long as it's not Yet Another D&D Clone, but actually brings something special to the table.

Indie games don't really get me on 'philosophy' or game design, but they usually get me on their settings- some of them aren't settings you'd play forever, but that's not really the point.

Like, I found one that is an urban fantasy about working in an opera house. It's kind of amazing. Or the really clever 'pitches' from Dramasystem or the worlds marketed as part of FATE. PbtA games often have that for me, too. (I played in a Spirit of 77 game and loved it.)

I get a first time feeling when I look at a game's setting and think "you can do that?"
This message was last edited by the user at 07:20, Mon 31 July 2023.

You can do pretty much everything.   Back when I was a teenager, I devised a rather quick and simple system for playing a wolf after reading White Fang for the first time.