Category talk:Genre

To keep things clean and useful, we should keep a set list of predefined genres.

Here is a first proposal. Definitely not perfect nor final. Really open for discussion.

more or less related to litterature Genres:
 * Fantasy
 * Sword & Sorcery
 * Cape & Sword
 * Fairy Tales
 * Sci-fi
 * Space
 * Dark (aka soft horror, evil is present)
 * Horror (aka chtlulu, resident evil, ...)
 * Historical
 * Pulp
 * Urban Fantasy
 * Superpowers
 * Cyberpunk
 * Steampunk
 * Dieselpunk
 * Dungeonpunk?
 * Humour / parody
 * Post Apocalyptic
 * Dystopian

more or less based on Epoch/Era:
 * Prehistory (cavedwellers, dynosaurs)
 * Antiquity (greek, roman, celtic, nordic, indian mythologies)
 * Medieval
 * Renaissance
 * Asian/Wuxia
 * Wild West (cowboys, conquest of the west)
 * New World (exploration of new worlds, christopher columbus)
 * Carabian / Pirates
 * Victorian
 * Modern (from 1900ish to 2020ish, too wide?)
 * Near Future
 * Far Future

focus of the setting?
 * Monster Hunting
 * Dungeon Crawl
 * Exploration
 * War (Military/Conflict, like Weird Wars)
 * Spying
 * Action
 * Survival

Misc
 * for Kids
 * conversion (from other systems, like eberron, iron kingdoms)

--Cyril (talk) 03:54, 9 September 2020 (PDT)