#maybe in Fame it'll become clear

[xemthawt112]

This combo of the Long Campaign and scheduling is generally why I see reduced enthusiasm for other games in my experience. Which to be clear, my gaming group is actually pretty open to new games. But amongst our group of GMs (of which I am one), the trend is to be pretty inertial: I tend to play tastemaker a bit while most are content to work with the same game or two. And I think it comes down to that feeling of necessary length. Of the games I remember ending, there's maybe one that took less than a year that I didn't run. And I think the key is particularly progression systems.

You have a big grand idea, a grand wizard or what have you to defeat, but you want to start small and scrappy. Well, in that case you better have smaller stories to build up to the big one. And of course if this fame has 20 levels, it'd be boring to only play for level 1 to 3, right? Sure, it'll take an extra 15 sessions to get to level 6, but they'll be able develop their character (and build) much more!

Which would be it's own thing if it was isolated. But the systems often color the type of stories you come up with (especially if you're used to the same thing). So now every game is a multi year affair to make room for development (even if the gsme doesn't mechanically need it).

And once your perception is colored that way, it becomes less "do you want to try this game for a bit" and more "do you want to spend a couple years telling a slow building story using a system you dont know yet?" Likely incorrectly, but nevertheless

I'm actually thinking about something kinda funny. There are very few RPGs that I couldn't see myself playing. Like, aside from the ones that are downright hateful or made by some variety of fascist I can't think of a game that I would flat-out refuse to play. And given that there's a lot of talk about getting people to try out new games and how hard it supposedly is it just makes me wonder... am I weird for my willingness and enthusiasm for playing other games? Because if so add that to my ever-growing list of "reasons the normies are weird, actually."