I've avoided such genres as vampire games in RPGs because I find the mechanics of guns difficult to accept. It's not the guns per se; I have no problem at all with firearms. It's that I cannot suspend my disbelief with respect to how much damage a single gunshot would do to a person. Yes, the same can be said for fantasy weapons such as a huge club wielded by a giant. But I don't know. Somehow, I can handle suspending my disbelief with fantasy weapons, but not firearms (or energy weapons in sci-fi games).
I don't have a problem with that tbh. And VtMB is such a good game. And they've put into consideration, how much damage you can do to a more powerful being. There is even one being, you can't really hurt much as a new born vampire xxx you have to avoid that being.
I think it is that with fantasy settings you have magic, and I can use magic as a catch-all excuse and explanation and justification for whatever happens in the game. But in other game settings you don't have magic (or anything equivalent), and so it becomes harder for me to accept certain things within those games. I know these are fiction-based games, but I still need quite a bit of realism to be able to accept the game. This is also why it is so very difficult for me to accept TB combat, because nowhere does combat happen in turns in reality.
I'm a big Lovecraft and horror fan, do for me, Call of Cthulhu is a great game. It has magic, but that comes with a price. Mostly your sanity. I love that tbh.
I also like Urban Fantasy settings like Liminal or Rivers of London, because I like the mixture of our world and fantasy a lot. I played Liminal two years ago the first time and it got me hooked.
I also like Sci-fi, because exploring the galaxy is fun. I played The Expanse this weekend and I just love the very different way to approach problems from say DnD or other high magic games.
I generally plays lot of very different ttrpgs, and found a lot of very different settings,I liked through the years. I would say, I can adapt to nearly everything nowadays and always find something, that gets me hooked. I'm more character and story driven.
