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Are they just less popular?

I run games in my homebrew setting which is a gothic horror victorian era-esque world and it baffles me how many players seem to find it confusing.Most of the character applications seem more suited for traditional fantasy

examples:

'my character is a barbarian working as a mercenary to whatever king hires him'

'I play a knight whose job is protecting a castle from foreign hordes'

'I play a bard who goes from one village to another to play his lute in taverns'

Or when I do non european medieval fantasy settings(middle eastern, japanese, chinese, indian, etc), people always brings in characters who are westerners travelling to the region, some refuse to play locals.

Are most fantasy fans just stuck on Tolkien-esque middle earth style type of settings?

IF your talking Pathfinder, the game mechanics and classes are geared to a heroic fantasy setting, not gothic horror Victorian settings.

First disconnect, maybe try Call of Cthulu.

On the western vs eastern, sounds more like player preference of what they are interested in. It may be as well that what brought people to RPGs was their love of middle earth style fantasy, hence why they want to play in such settings.

Hooked from the first adventure. I may have died, don't recall. I loved the freeform nature of it compared to war games.

I was big on game and war games growing up. It's what I preferred to do inside, especially in the era when we got 3 TV channels, maybe 4 or 5 if the weather was good.

D&D for me was what we were already doing with Squad Leader, letting our leaders gain experience from scenario to scenario and personifying them.

It really was the perfect kind of game at the perfect time.

Still play tabletop RPGs to this day :)

12 years old, Original D&D, 1976 edition! White box 3 little brown books.