Lipaks Advertising
Ok, i have now posted in at least 20 venues.
And i am somewhat dismayed to discover that the majority of the rpgs currently being promoted on the net are not fantasy. Or science fiction. Or anything related. Instead, we have contemporary rpgs based on current soap operas. Others are made up soap operas, usually in fictional resorts or high schools. High schools? Aren't most current gamers in high school in real life? Then there are sports teams, sitcoms and fictional settings designed to work like sitcoms. Ugh!
Of the non contemporary rpgs, most are about Harry Potter. Or have settings that are like Harry Potter but with different names. Subtract Harry Potter and most of the rest are about Buffy and/or Angel, Charmed, Smallville, and to a lesser extent, Highlander, Xena, and other fantasy shows. However these are more freeform interactive stories than full fledged frps. More disturbingly, a whole lot of the games in this category and the preceeding ones, fall into a classification i was previously unaware of: they are "canon". Well obviously that's exagerating. Only the original creators of a work can say what's canon. But these "canon" rpgs have strict requirements to keep the storylines inside the established boundries of their sources. And some only allow the established characters from the source.
Subtract those show based and informal games, we come to games that actually have rule systems. Most of those are vampire games.
Subtract those and we come to what we used to first think of when we thought of frpgs. That's the category Lipaks falls under. But apparently it is now the very least popular category. Oy vey.
Oh yes-- there is one exception: Start Trek. Star Trek games exist in all categories. Show based, or just borrowing the universe. Show characters only, some show characters, or all original. Styles ranging from pure storytelling to formal rulesystems.
Oh, and of course slash.
And i am somewhat dismayed to discover that the majority of the rpgs currently being promoted on the net are not fantasy. Or science fiction. Or anything related. Instead, we have contemporary rpgs based on current soap operas. Others are made up soap operas, usually in fictional resorts or high schools. High schools? Aren't most current gamers in high school in real life? Then there are sports teams, sitcoms and fictional settings designed to work like sitcoms. Ugh!
Of the non contemporary rpgs, most are about Harry Potter. Or have settings that are like Harry Potter but with different names. Subtract Harry Potter and most of the rest are about Buffy and/or Angel, Charmed, Smallville, and to a lesser extent, Highlander, Xena, and other fantasy shows. However these are more freeform interactive stories than full fledged frps. More disturbingly, a whole lot of the games in this category and the preceeding ones, fall into a classification i was previously unaware of: they are "canon". Well obviously that's exagerating. Only the original creators of a work can say what's canon. But these "canon" rpgs have strict requirements to keep the storylines inside the established boundries of their sources. And some only allow the established characters from the source.
Subtract those show based and informal games, we come to games that actually have rule systems. Most of those are vampire games.
Subtract those and we come to what we used to first think of when we thought of frpgs. That's the category Lipaks falls under. But apparently it is now the very least popular category. Oy vey.
Oh yes-- there is one exception: Start Trek. Star Trek games exist in all categories. Show based, or just borrowing the universe. Show characters only, some show characters, or all original. Styles ranging from pure storytelling to formal rulesystems.
Oh, and of course slash.