Tight focus versus a sprawling playground

[Ulzgoroth]

I think it's confused to relate the focused vs. less focused game to the books. It's true that DF, MH, and Action are about relatively focused games, but Fantasy, Space and Horror aren't in any way opposed to that. From my reading of Horror, it seems to be mostly about fairly focused games in its own right. Fantasy and Space somewhat less so, being largely about building settings, but Fantasy includes DF type games, and Space includes space marine bug-hunts and such.

I do think any individual game is going to run into trouble without some kind of initial focus, otherwise you're at risk of winding up with one character set on playing a courtly romance game and another planning to stab at least one dragon in the face per week, and these people not having any good reason to play together. But focusing on just one kind of play or not...I'd go either way there.