@shit-piss-love said in What original theme interests you?:

Soap Opera was my favorite as well. I would love to see a game that’s like, a soap opera but also it’s a reverse-masquerade sort of thing where the soap opera characters slowly awaken to the reality that they are in a Truman Show situation being watched by elder powers and they can’t directly talk about this or else they will be returned to the nothingness from whence they came.

Oh, I like that too! And that nothingness will always be so magical, because it could be falling down an elevator shaft, or being lost at sea in a freak lightningcane. Frozen at the top of Mt Everest? Those sorts of things always tickle me. And maybe they can come back from the nothingness after being suitably corrected by the all-powers that be?

I’m in.

I’d just like to say that all of these themes sound fun. I mostly lean toward the soap opera because it’s so particularly unique, but the mall is also pretty high up because it has a quirk to it that I find completely charming.

It seems a lot of talk is on the Angels/Demons, so I wanted to share my initial thought: can we play humans, as well? I’m not sure what exactly it is, but my favorite characters in grand conflicts and battles are the small, ‘unimportant’ people caught in the middle who are just trying to live their lives and survive to another day. In a game like that, I’d love to just be a human. Heck, even if the humans don’t last long, it’d be fun to just churn out a new one when the last one expires, because character studies are kinda my jam. So I just wanted to float that thought/question out there.

I continue to absolutely adore Pathfinder 1E.

I started gaming with AD&D 2E, but I really hit my stride in third and 3.5. When 4th edition came out, I tried it for one campaign and hated what they had done, which is when someone introduced me to Pathfinder. It was all the best parts of D&D 3 and 3.5, but better. There is so much material, classes, archetypes, hybrid classes, variant rules, that it’s a sandbox where you get to pick your favorite things (rules for custom race generation are still awesome to this day.) and make a campaign. It’s got a lot of math depending how you approach combat, and I admit to having a spreadsheet to help me remember all of my bonuses and when they apply, but I love building characters, and I love finding wild things to do with those characters.

If you want to see what the system looks like, I actually find their SRD to be a lot of fun just to browse. But, I may just be a nerd. The books are all well-done, if you prefer the actual media.