Random Game Idea I had
Kinda rambly and unrelated to most stuff here im aware, but I needed something to extend my Bsky posts so
been throwing around the idea of a game for a while, an Isekai game where you separately create who you were and who you'll turn into, with who you were determining certain aspects of the world, and who you turn into determining aspects about the different factions and groups of the world, eg playing an Elemental would add something like "This faction's actions often harm and destroy nature", something like that? idk its a half baked idea
for example a character could be a Powergamer Undead
Power Gamer makes it so heroes are hyper powerful leading to the world being shaped around legends of them, and you get to write a single legendary figure and one great deed they did that completely changed the world Undead adds "This faction's relationship with the dead and the afterlife are strange in some way, what do they do in specific that makes them so strange?" or maybe even "This faction has been interfering with the natural cycle of Death, or Undeath"
the "Who you Were" section would determine your relationship w/ the world you're getting isekaied into
the Loremaster knows every single lore tidbit, the Powerscaler/gamer focused on hyperoptimizing the game or learning how powerful the characters were, the Editor was a Fanfic writer or Modder, the Tactician would sweat over every single detail of the world's wartime politics or do insane challenge runs where using the brain was half the challenge, the Casual enjoyer just liked the stuff they liked, the Superfan was a big fan of the franchise but the specific installment the gang is isekaied into is one they don't particularly like, etc
also i think every "were" class also comes with a Burden, something you need to work through even in the new world, and when you make progress towards it you get closer to evolving your "Is" form
prob inspired by Trash mob Isekai, like Slimenime or Spidernime?