I’d really love to be the dungeon master for a The Magnus Archives inspired game of dungeons and dragons. Like, warlocks get their powers from the fears, and different classes skew towards feeding different fears, but you can’t knowingly choose which one, random checks and actions push you in different directions.
You have to make saving throws if you’re trying to resist becoming more monstrous, and you roll with advantage when using them. If you’re enough like an avatar and you go too long without feeding your fear, you start having disadvantages at everything except feeing your fears.
If you have an anchor, you roll with advantage when resisting losing yourself to powers like the Lonely. You have to choose your anchor, and you have to interact at least once every few sessions for them or it to stay your anchor.
And maybe there are twists like, the rituals actually could destroy the world, and you don’t know if it will fail. That is left up to a coin toss by the dungeon master, and you won’t know until the ritual has passed, but the party has multiple opportunities to learn more about and stop the rituals.
I don’t know. That just sounds fun to me.
And I genuinely want to do this. If other people do too, interact with this post or message me or send an ask. I want to meet and get acquainted with someone (over tumblr or discord or something) before I play a campaign with them.