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[Tawa]

Ba'al isn't going to be pleased with this, Andres.

[Andres]

Ba'al isn't going to be pleased with this, Andres.

I don't know what a Ba'al is.

It depends. Add some descriptions for what it's about.

You take control of a soul. You create a human body with Soul Energy. You get Soul Energy by absorbing souls and converting them to Soul Energy. Conversion is done automatically. You absorb souls by killing people. There are cops, the military, inquisitors, paladins, angels, and an archangel emperor. Magic is a thing but the character may or may not be able to use it (haven't decided). The setting is a mix of modern and fantasy. You can regenerate your current body by eating people (eating not-people works, but a lot less well) to regenerate a body, but it doesn't give any Soul Energy.

[flabort]

Does anyone know of any good names for a game where you gain power by eating other peoples' souls? Soul Eater is out of the question because that is the name of an anime.

Flabort: The Suggestion Game

Where players are deciding the actions taken during a day in the life of a demilich left hand.

[kj1225]

Maybe... well, what's the name of the type of creature? Maybe call it Goul?

[Tawa]

Ba'al isn't going to be pleased with this, Andres.

I don't know what a Ba'al is.

Ba'al? The Eater of Souls? (xkcd reference, tee hee.)

I'd recommend translating "soul eater" into Latin and using that.

[Andres]

Maybe... well, what's the name of the type of creature? Maybe call it Goul?

Goul? Nah. At the moment I just have it in my mind that it's just a very special human soul. That might change depending on what I want to do with the plot.

Ba'al isn't going to be pleased with this, Andres.

I don't know what a Ba'al is.

Ba'al? The Eater of Souls? (xkcd reference, tee hee.)

I'd recommend translating "soul eater" into Latin and using that.

I don't read xkcd so that's probably why I didn't get it. I translated it and got 'anima comedentis' which won't work because it doesn't sound cool enough to warrant being a Latin title and an anima is what the feminine side of the male psyche is called.

[Harbingerjm]

Does anyone know of any good names for a game where you gain power by eating other peoples' souls? Soul Eater is out of the question because that is the name of an anime.

The Hunger Game.

[Tawa]

I translated it and got 'anima comedentis' which won't work because it doesn't sound cool enough to warrant being a Latin title and an anima is what the feminine side of the male psyche is called.

Damn. How about Greek? Otherwise, I've got nothing.

[IronyOwl]

Soulfeast

Soulphage

Blood Eaters

Wrath of the Incarnate

Apostles of Hunger

Vampires of Spirit


Remember that there's more to your game than eating souls, and that there's multiple ways to phrase anything. If one angle doesn't work for you, scrabble around for another.

[Empiricist]

I translated it and got 'anima comedentis' which won't work because it doesn't sound cool enough to warrant being a Latin title and an anima is what the feminine side of the male psyche is called.

How about teyollocuani? It's a kind of obscure supernatural entity that eats hearts or souls. Or something along the lines of eraser seeing as such a thing would pretty much erase their victims from existence.

[Andres]

How about teyollocuani? It's a kind of obscure supernatural entity that eats hearts or souls. Or something along the lines of eraser seeing as such a thing would pretty much erase their victims from existence.

Keep in mind that this is basically a human soul that's doing all the eating. If the characters choose not to eat any souls and do other stuff or increase their power in more traditional ways (still thinking on what that might be) then they can. For all intents and purposes the players will play as a normal human that just so happens to be able to create a new body for itself and that gains power by killing. They're not some monster or anything.
The title 'Eraser' reminds me of 'Bleach' because of the similarities to why the name was chosen.....definitely goes in the maybe pile.

[Empiricist]

I think teyollocuani are some kind of sorcerer in folklore rather than some kind of monstrous entity. Though it probably also limits its use to if the player characters have some kind of magic.

[Kassire]

Does anyone know of any good names for a game where you gain power by eating other peoples' souls? Soul Eater is out of the question because that is the name of an anime.

Fames Spiritus (Hunger of the Spirit)
Mae'r newyn Eneidiau Ddynoliaeth (The hunger of Mankind's Souls)
Arcanam Mors inter homines (The mysterious Death among men)
Bruxo espírito das Almas

So far, that's all I got

[Fniff]

There was a few vampire suggestion games on the forum. They weren't a craze but they weren't uncommon. I played in a few and lurked in others, and I found a reoccurring problem with them was that they relied a bit too much on exposition. I have been thinking of running a World of Darkness-based game, and I find that a lot of WoDalikes have the problem of awkward exposition. You know the type: more experienced supernatural entity shows up, goes over the details of the world, being essentially a professor with fangs.
I also recently played Choice of the Vampire. While it isn't in a modern setting like most WoDalikes and it is a videogame (Though in my opinion it seems that CYOA's are to suggestion games like CRPGs are to tabletop RPGs: streamlined but reduced), it's a good influence. For one, the exposition is given to you quickly but not all at once. For instance, two separate characters explain to you the basic nature of being a vampire and the political system of vampires. This feels a lot more natural, in my opinion.

Put simply: what is the best amount of exposition? All in one go, spread out, or just show not tell?
Another thing: what kind of exposition do players actually like the most?

[Nerjin]

You need to give them the basic premise, but after that it should be show not tell. Unless they ask.

I prefer show not tell myself.