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I also think that the rules affect how well the game will be played and matching the rules to the play you want to get is something good. Can you can work with tools that are not matching what you want to achieve? Yes. But I never really heard a good reason for doing that.

This doesn't mean that you shouldn't branch out into other systems. And certain systems do have better mechanics for handling certain story vibes. But ultimately, it's your game. If you wanna do XYZ with D&D Ruleset, all the more power to ya!

Yes, but the PHB implies generic fantasy wandering adventurer who is going to fight monsters. That's what all the mechanics are for. That's what they all do. To run a modern spy game in D&D you first have to gut the entire system. The classes make no sense. Ancestries? No sense. Magic? Not really.

Yeah, like D&D works best with high fantasy with the swords and spells it already has rules for. But you're right that the base gameplay can be applied to other things as well.

I do want to try doing something that isnt a medieval or early-Renaissance in D&D/PF. I just dont have time to DM anymore.

A lot depends on what is your definition of D&D. Do you need a D20 or does it work with 3d6? Six stats, add a few more, cut back to three? Class and level, or are those optional? A good hammer, a sharp knife, a roll of duct tape, 144 pages of house rules...D&D can do anything. GURPS too. BRP too.

So many, its hard to fathom lol! Horror is great in D&D, but you got Call of Cuthulu 💯 designed for horror, or Heists when you got Blades in the Dark!

The Dark Souls one was so fucking awful. I'm not even a fan of Dark Souls and it offended me.

Yah it's shocking they went with Masks for 'superheroes' in this meme. Masks is a teenage angst game in superhero clothing. D&D is more of a game about straight-up superheroics than Masks is.

I mean KOTOR is Star Wars with D&D rules... but is Star Wars striclty speaking Sci-Fi?

Less shoving it into D&D and more getting D&D all over my other stuff, any given OGL book. Abberant did not need to given the 3.5e treatment.

When Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax put sci-fi in. The original is a wide open sandbox.

Boy do I! Right now I am running Dragon Star in #DnD 5e, and also right now I am running a dieselpunk WW1 style game in #DnD 5.5. In fact, last night I made a fake news broadcast for my players. youtu.be/Z2oEhUeL1BA?...

That tracks. The comment had very "4 out of 5 people I currently play D&D with have never heard of Traveller, so clearly it's not real" energy, lol

I said "afaik", as in "as far as i know", if someone's managed to run a sword & sorcery adventure using Traveller, Classic Traveller no less, then props to them. There's no need to be rude and throw "L"s around :P

We did Lovecraftian horror in the OTU, with the ship being the hollowed-out corpse of a star god larva and the Patron secretely a cultist seeking to visit as many systems as possible in the hopes its emanations would awaken the slumbering elders. It also projected ghosts of anyone who died on board.

Courtroom drama might be my pick. You can roleplay a trial in D&D, but if the verdict turns on evidence, testimony and contradictions, combat-focused progression keeps trying to turn cross-examination into a skill-check encounter.

It really do feel like that though

Similarly, it's stuck with it's class and level based progression system, and the d20 doesn't allow for monkeying with probability weighted skill checks the same way using 2 or more dice combined does. For all of that, you want a different system.

My square cutout is OpenLegend, a system that actually works for all those genres.

Our old Dark Sun game with the gradually emerging premise "actually, you are the presumed-dead Sorcerer-Monarchs in new bodies, but amnesiac and we will jump back and forth between the present and your reemerging memories of the settings main backstory lore; also you are immortal now" might qualify?

Not me, but a close friend used D&D 3.5 for a Dot Hack campaign. Honestly, I find the idea that you should only use D&D for fantasy to be silly, though. Ninety percent of any genre is fluff. You can reskin anything with a little creativity. Changeling shapeshifting? Hacker editing character model.

Fun fact. D&D originally had Martians and ray guns in it.

We're in a homebrew of 5e currently but doing variations of Adventures of the Multiverse. Our DM is hoping from different sources of materials for his world building. The last book was Curse of Strahd but instead of Strahd it was an Archlich. It's fun. He's putting all shapes in the square hole

I think my favourite is always going to be the crowd of people wanting to play a tabletop game based on Cyberpunk 2077 or Edgerunners (or both), and jumping to D&D without knowing the franchise started out as a tabletop game.