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We have the actual sales data that disproves this claim. Over here. https://www.enworld.org/threads/all-basic-b-x-and-becmi-and-rules-cyclopedia-set-sales-from-ben-riggs.690259/

Yeah. I do the same. It seems to come in waves. Fiction for a time then non-fiction. Forcing things almost never works out well for me. I just end up hating the things I normally love.

Exactly. Supernatural Thriller, not horror. The protagonist is a badass monster hunter, not a scream queen who happens to barely survive.

Not really. Neither is a Western in any real genre sense. They each have one character from the Old West in Victorian England in a Gothic Horror story, but in no real way does the presence of that single character change the genre of the whole. Especially in Dracula where the cowboy is a...

Though, thinking about it more there are some that just wouldn’t work because they are mutually exclusive. How I define horror (huge power imbalance between protagonists and antagonists) makes it mutually exclusive with action-adventure and pulp. You can have horror-themed monsters in a pulp...

Exactly. But basically no one would say the genre of Dracula is Western.

To me it’s not about tough fits, you can make most combos work. It’s more about easier vs harder to explain what you mean by a given combination. Like a Mystery-Romance. They’re both plot-based genres, so you have to figure out which dominates and how they interact with each other. Is the...

Sure. To each their own. I'd rather err on the side of unnatural but well-written dialog. The snappy patter of film noir and hard-boiled detective stories, for example. Maybe not everything like that all the time, but definitely on that end of the spectrum rather than the realistic end.

Sigh. Because of course. Here's a [+] thread for people who want to actually talk about good information design in modules. https://www.enworld.org/threads/best-practices-for-easy-to-run-modules.716252/

The [+] is to keep things positive and prevent the already tired arguments about preferences and this style of module. This thread is for people who like this style of information design and want to talk about it. There are plenty of other threads to hate on things you don’t like. Branching...

Yeah. And people really, really don't want dialog in movies or TV shows to match how real people in the real world actually speak. If you don't believe me, record a conversation. Wait a day or two, then play it back. Now transcribe the thing exactly as spoken, be sure to include all the UMs...

I prefer pundits to social media, and yes, ENWorld is social media. With pundits I can go to their site or blog or YouTube channel and get what they think about a topic without all the noise of social media. I can also simply not engage with the pundits I disagree with, unlike on social media...

It applies equally to anywhere humans share opinions. Unfortunately, most people care more about being right and somehow proving their rightness to others than anything remotely resembling a conversation. There are a few pockets here and there, of course. But not for lack of trying by the...

It got north of 1.5 million views while it was up.

I think we've had that conversation before. To me it's that genres are defined by different things. Some are plot based, others setting based, others tone based, etc. You can mix and match them easily when the different genres cover different aspects, such as a Western Romance. It makes...