Do you have a favorite system to run each genre? And if so, what do you like about them?

For example:

  • Sci-Fi: Stars Without Number
  • Horror: Call of Cthulhu
  • Ziggurat@fedia.io
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    5 hours ago

    I feel like the system word is too restrictive, as games comes with system + setting and it changes a lot the experience, so my favourite games would be.

    Space sci-fi Fading suns with it’s setting were noble house, poweful church, and guilds having the monopoly on technology struggle for politicla power over the known world

    Cyberpunk sci-fi I am a bit split on that one, as much as I love the Eclipse phase setting using a variant of the D100 BRP to build a crunchy system doesn’t work. and I haven’t tried the transhumaniy fate’s version. Therefore, I would say Cyberpunk 2020 which is one of the game I played the most

    Modern investigation I would go for Chronicle of Darkness (aka nWOD 2006) it works fine, with and without supernatural elements

    Horror Kult the recent divinity lost editions is pretty great, and IMO as one of the best GM section in the PBTA world which really explains how to plan a campaign using a mind-map an using PBTA consequences to make your plot move in the background.

    Heroic fantasy Bloodlust which while not translated in English is pretty great. God weapons with their own lust and weak humans fighting to carry them until they find-out that they’re the weapon’s will toy rather than the other way around. the 2010 Metal edition has also a nice modernized system (with FATE style aspects) and all fitting in one big book

    Special award 10 candles as a pretty great zero prep horror game

    Special award for the whole forged in the dark family I had great experiences with these systems. While I am less fan of the gang management downtime it’s a good modern intermediate between rule light and traditional systems

  • HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone
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    16 hours ago

    I pretty much hang around the Heroic Fantasy genre, and my thoughts on running it are very different from my thought’s on playing it or otherwise. But Pathfinder 2e is definitely my go-to for running. Shit just works. I cannot express how much I appreciate the encounter budget actually being accurate instead of just a vague shoulder shrug like earlier systems.

    As far as other genres go… I’ve run Scum and Villainy for sci-fantasy crime dramas, and it wins by doing absolutely nothing! I’m just not enough of a Sci-fi Greg to run more in the genre, heh.