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I like hapless and terminally unlucky characters. It's fun coming up with the fiction for a failed roll being crazy bad luck, and it turns failure from something that feels bad into something fun and expressive of your character.

I like any archetype that has some sort of quality to turn the inevitable failed roll into a character moment, really. I think it's a side of character building that alot of systems skip- especially wargame type systems like DnD- which naturally leads to power gaming and meta gaming, since a failure feels like a wasted turn otherwise.

The biggest thing I dislike in any game is when you try to do something and effectively nothing happens.

I've been loving super simple, stylized, and streamlined TTRPG's lately. Stuff like honey heist, everyone is john, and lasers and feelings.

Has anyone played games like these? What are some other's you've seen? Which are your favorites?

I've been thinking of designing a few of my own to mess around with some fun genres. Lovecraft horror mysteries, spy thriller missions, magical girl adventures.

Has anyone worked on designing anything like this before? It could be a fun collaborative project to work on, trying to capture as much of a genre as you can in as simple of a system as possible.