>>94422102
>I have not set out to run a "comfy" game.
I apologize, but the setting reads that you were writing it way. Even if it wasn't intended.
>I have... without.
It's better, in that case, to start small and end big. Have the players end up as 40k Inquisitors, rather than start as them. This isn't a Rogue Trader or Only War game, your setting isn't really aligned with starting as the not-Gestapo.
>I like...official position
There are better ways to do this. In a 'standard' fantasy game, you would have the players join the town guard or some kind of irregular militia. In a 'standard' sci-fi game, you would similarly keep their focus small to start with. Science fantasy, especially something that draws from planetary romance, always needs to consider that planets are fucking gigantic, and the administration of world-spanning governments are similar.
>>94422102
>Are you saying... ideas presented here?
Not necessarily for the players, but for yourself. There aren't enough logical throughlines for you to properly explain the world to the players, or edit the less appealing parts of your setting, and know what to present to the players in the final player document. Like I said, it's the nounsnounsnouns issue, where you have your own ideas but don't properly explain them.

There is a reason that Pathfinder APs have the actual path books, and then the player's guide. Or Gazetteers and then player handouts for the reason. You need to do the building of the world to truncate it for presentation. This world feels half-finished.
>>94422167
>Most likely... premade settings.
Don't give up. I'm picking apart everything, but because I've been where you were a few times, as a fellow GM who's run a few flops.
>If...method here
I highly recommend against it. Again- the problem wasn't "it wasn't Euroid" enough, the problem is that you gave the players barely anything to read into, because it seems like you barely have anything to read into yourself.

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I am having trouble with player buy-in for a fantasy setting where Western European aesthetics are deemphasized.I usually run premade settings in…

I am having trouble with player buy-in for a fantasy setting where Western European aesthetics are deemphasized.
I usually run premade settings in…