@Wizz said in What original theme interests you?:
@Pyrephox said in What original theme interests you?:
I want a bit of eldritch horror there, with true forms of multitudinous wings, eyes, and rings of divine fire.
I mean, I’m not saying this should be mandatory on any game like this but also yes I am
@Pyrephox said in What original theme interests you?:
Also, I’m not that big a fan of the Masquerade - I’d be delighted with an angel/demons setting where angels and demons were at least known OF, even if most people will never meet them, and you have, like, demons running nightclubs where people can sell their souls for a hit of the best drugs ever, or halfway houses for LGBT teens where the angelic guardian will break you in half for bothering their charges.
Honestly Masquerade was the most 90’s thing ever and just doesn’t work/isn’t fun in this format imo, but especially in a setting with literal angels and demons doesn’t even make sense to me. Why would they have any interest in pretending to not exist, unless that served some deceptive purpose on an individual level? And it kinda seems like there would just be a natural sort of light veil anyway where people would believe or not until they couldn’t refute the evidence.
Having some kind of Masquerade makes the setting easier for players to understand. Yup, there are supernatural stuffins going on, but otherwise? As far as the vast majority know? It’s all a mechanical universe.
If supernatural things were provably objective fact, it would change society in monumental ways. Why bother with science at all if you can just pray at something and get everything you want? Everyone would just form cults to their respective angel/demon. If an angel/demon doesn’t provide? Then just switch to worshiping a different one. Spirituality would become a commodity. There’d be no need of faith because there are repeatable, provable miracles and YOU BETTER PROVIDE THEM, CELESTIAL, OR I’LL JUST GO THE DEMON WHO WILL.
Is science, as a concept, even valid if one of the fundamental axioms under which it operates – that the same phenomena happen the same way everywhere in the universe – is provably incorrect?
And you’re not going to see too many atheists, either. They’d be the equivalent of flat earthers – kooks who refuse to see reality and the proof of that reality.
Among those who do still believe in something, religious strife would be rampant. Now that the supernatural is provable, everyone is going to think that their version is clearly the correct one, since even the celestials don’t know for certain. But there must be One True Faith, otherwise there wouldn’t even be angels and demons around.
Hey, there’s a provable afterlife now! I can be as reckless as I want with my life because, eh, I’ll just get sent to Heaven/Hell/be reincarnated, whatever. I can be a serial killer and it’s no big deal! All those folk will just be sent to their eternal reward/punishment/recycled. Life will become cheap if everyone knows for a fact that there’s a safety net after you die.
That’s all just off the top of my head. A society in which everyone knows for a fact that supernatural things are around would simply be entirely alien to anything we know.
Now you could just dictate that in your setting none of this happens yet everyone still knows angels and demons are wandering around, but you’re really straining willful disbelief by doing so. It’s going to make the setting much harder for people to get into or take seriously.