One thing I did in a campaign was say that the PCs are running a podcast or youtube series chronicling their ghost hunting. That required them to create a certain amount of content every hunt to publish, including some voiceovers and a talking head bit. That meant that the characters had to do...
I like how the PbtA game "Urban Shadows" actually challenges players to play as a different race/class/gender/orientation. It starts off by complaining about how very monochrome the urban fantasy genre is, points out that this conflicts with the very idea of "urban" fantasy, and then asks the...
It's weird dealing with a genre that is so dictated by technology when technology keeps changing. I remember the opening line from Neuromancer - burned in my neurons - "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." We haven't had dead channels since broadcast...
Adult here. Well, age wise at least. I'm forty-plus, married, fully employed.
For me, PbP roleplaying works well. It's something I can do for ten minutes here, ten minutes there. I put scraps of text in Google Keep or Docs at work, get email alerts from forums, check on my phone, etc...
I'm in my forties and I've been playing since the Basic D&D Red Box in the mid-80s. I'll stop when I'm dead.
One thing to remember is that there are many different types of roleplaying. I grew up with crunchy, dice-based games. All my old RP friends are playing Pathfinder on Mythweavers now...
I guess my favorite "futuristic western" would be Joss Whedon's Firefly. He really crammed in the western tropes. From jaded, post-civil-war Mal to prostitute-with-a-heart-of-gold Inara.
But I'm guessing that's not what you're talking about. I have a hard time visualizing a cross between RDR...