Audience-Alienating Premise: Difference between revisions

* ''[[FATAL]]'''s premise is "What if, instead of playing in a sanitized ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''-style fantasy world, you had one with all the negative traits of Ancient Rome and [[The Dung Ages]] rolled into one?" Even if ''FATAL'' had been a masterwork of mechanical genius (which, um, it isn't), with a premise like that, it wouldn't have made it big anyway. One of the most well-known memes about the "game" is "Roll for anal circumference!" That single line right there tells you all you need to know about this "game".

* ''[[Bunnies and Burrows]]'', who provides this page image. Mechanically and thematically, one of the most interesting games in the genre. The premise, however, is that your player characters are intelligent bunnies trying to survive being preyed. People see the cover and think "My Little Bunny" or something equally fluffy; people who manage to read the lore realize that they actually would end playing ''[[Watership Down]]''; the few people who overcome the themes or actually are interested in the premise realize that the game lacks magic systems and its mechanics discourage [[Munchkin]]ism and several popular ways to play.