>The players play as spirits able to bestow magical powers onto mortals by possessing them
>The flesh sacks they're running around with are all randomly generated
>If the flesh sack gets killed, the spirit is trapped there at the corpse until a new host arrives
>Death for the PCs comes in the form of cultists capturing and binding them to artifacts
What system would you use for this, assuming you wanted cuhrazy combat powers?
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...Do you NOT want to talk about cute monster girl spirits possessing you to battle evil?
Devil: The Fallen worked in a similar way if I recall correctly.
Demon, not devil. Otherwise yeah.
Pretty much how that worked.
Just change the banishment mechanic to binding and reflavor it however you want it.
I'd probably grow too attached to vessels.
Would you play this if it were a low budget 2d roguelike? Because I may try and fail at that.
Did Ahri basically destroy all other kitsune art?
But she's not a Kitsune.
Good. This gives you suffering and thereby plot hooks.
check Messiah (vidya from late 90's) it deals with the idea
as for the system WoD might work
WoD fucking sucks though
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DnD 3.5. You are playing as template which levels up.
I want to impregnate that spirit.
Well, I think it's a relatively novel idea to work with
>letting yourself be possessed
I'll fuck these spirits up, fuck your ghost powers.
As long as all our powers aren't in the form of under-50% rolls to activate useless passives, I'm in.
After about three minutes of thought, I'd probably use Pathfinder (yeah, yeah, I know). But the players could stat themselves as an Eidolon of Xth level and allow them to possess adventurers of various skill levels. Yeah, you can possess a high level character, but they likely will have the stats to resist your possession if its unwilling, and even though wizards are more powerful, they have magics to force you out and bind you to items or banish you to other realms. Seems like it could be fun.
I want to FUCK that fox.
If you want crazy powers and rapid character generation, you could use Godbound. Or you could make the body hopping a mostly flavor concern for something like Feng Shui or HeroQuest2 if you want to be more storygame.
>What system would you use for this, assuming you wanted cuhrazy combat powers?
Don't Rest Your Head. The base game has a simple, non-abusable 'magic' system every character has, letting them do one awesome supernatural thing. These range from 'generate lightning by moving' to 'make millions of ants burst from my flesh to kill my foes' to 'summon trains wherever and whenever I want'. It's awesome.
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Re-flavour as such:
Exhaustion represents how much physical strength you're forcing your flesh sack host to use, and when it exceeds 6 they literally break and die. Instead of falling asleep, you're stuck at the corpse's location for a few days until you can summon enough power to jump to a new host, leaving you vulnerable.
Madness represents what specific kind of magical power you can channel through your body. Fight boxes make your power go out of control in dangerous, unpredictable ways when filled. Flight boxes make your power shut down completely when filled.
You can have each host body have its own Exhaustion Talent (i.e. a mundane physical skill that the person was good at doing in life), and you can either have a static Madness Talent or one that changes with each host you occupy. You can flavour it so that your spirit is basically a 'magic battery', and every host is like a unique electrical appliance that makes that energy work in different ways. So one host might let you create ice weapons, while another could teleport short distances, and so forth.
I highly recommend you give this a shot. The system's solid and it manages to reward characters for being awesome and 'cinematic' while still presenting risks and challenges for them.
Okay, does nobody else notice that fox has everything showing?
those are panties, clearly
The item creation thing should be extensive. Imagine your youkai lover binded and expended to be built into a magic item and then you have to fight the person using her, knowing you're going to share her fate if you fail.
>youkai lover
>being in cahoots with monsters
No.
Would the vessels have their own personality and goals for being possessed? Or would they just be mindless flesh mecha for the spirits?
So, what was the janny's beef?
You're not allowed to criticize the administrative staff's decisions.
How is bemusement criticism?
Answering your question would be the criticism.