Re: Do you think fantasy requires spell casting?
Dyson Logos wrote:Actually, since I play a lot of different RPGs, I'm used to them not having magic or non-human races. I've played a lot of hard sci-fi, modern espionage and similar styles of games, so taking those themes to fantasy is easy, and the people I play with have no issues with it.
And the "difficult to keep exciting" part is definitely way off for me. I can do that in a game where everyone is a level 0 commoner working in a dirt farm. I ran a 12-episode campaign set in a prison yard.
Now, if everyone I played with only played D&D-like fantasy games, then yes, I could see it being harder to maintain a campaign. But for the Game of Thrones RPG, it doesn't actually play as well for a one-shot as it does for a campaign. Too much of the game is wrapped up in politics and manipulation and long-term investments of power.
I largely agree with Dyson, we played heaps of Flashing Blades BITD and everybody had a great fun. Magic/fantasy is not mandatory to have fun.