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[OceanSoul]

Good points. Also, it gave me an idea. What if, to make a body for a certain personality type, the players need to find a NPC with that or a similar personality. For example, if one PC distinctly had a destructive personality behind their suggestions, an arsonist, demolitionist, or other such person could become their new body. A pacifistic personality might be able to take the body of a priest, or maybe a vegetarian.

So if I was a compulsive nude arsonist who can work a room, that'd pretty much lock me into priesthood?

I don't exactly get it. So I guess no. The "nude arsonist" part seems more destructive and lunatic. In the end, it's up to the GM. Closer fits should be easier to make into a new body than stretches like that..maybe. I probably couldn't run it myself.

[Pancaek]

I thought the priesthood quip was pretty good, made me smirk.

[Harry Baldman]

But there's an actual idea there as well, a better principle to give PCs bodies would possibly be by whatever seems funniest at the time.

[OceanSoul]

Like I said, it's up to the GM. That does give me an idea, though I'm not sure how it led me to this: a poor roll on getting a body would give a different, unstable body rather different from the one they wanted. While unstable, if the players don't give suggestions  that would fit the personality of the body, the body is lost. The body would eventually stabilize, and then play for those in that body could resume as normal.

[lawastooshort]

Thanks HB, that gave me some nostalgic happiness

[Egan_BW]

Normal RTD, but randomly every few turns the players switch bodies with each other.

[OceanSoul]

How about a normal RTD, but every few turns, characters changes Classes with one another? You may be able to use a skill well with your current class, but the class change might make it very ineffective, or give it a whole different effect. Inversely, classes stay with the character, and determine your stats and ability to use skills, while your SKILLS swap every few turns.

[Egan_BW]

That's just statistical chaos. Much better if you suddenly find yourself in a totally different situation, in a completely different body.

[Kadzar]

What about body-switch tag, where, if you manage to tag a person, you both switch bodies. No tagsies backsies.

[OceanSoul]

What if a game was ONLY body-switching chaos? Might be through 'tag' at some points, might be completely random at others. Every player would bring some mental capabilities, like a spell or proper unarmed fighting techniques, as well as their starting body. To balance, either body type could affect some mental stats, like orks getting reduced intelligence or magic, or mind and body would be balanced separately. But, in the end, what would be the goal?

[ATHATH]

What about body-switch tag, where, if you manage to tag a person, you both switch bodies. No tagsies backsies.

What happens if three people link hands with each other in a circle?

[Haspen]

What about body-switch tag, where, if you manage to tag a person, you both switch bodies. No tagsies backsies.

What happens if three people link hands with each other in a circle?

SNATCHER ROULETTE! Favorite pasttime of teen body snatchers, and you can play too! Simple rules! Simple fun~!

"Why did I get Maggie's body again? I hate Maggie, dammit! *canned laughter track*"

[OceanSoul]

For circular swaps, the minds rotate around the group. For people A1, B2, and C3, where the letter is the kind and the number is the body, we either have A2, B3, C1 or A3, B1, C2, depending on whether the minds rotate clockwise or counterclockwise.
Also, in at least one point, a mind should be able to inhabit an inanimate object. Maybe for the whole game. Maybe there's a limited amount of bodies, and bodiless minds must inhabit inanimate objects and/or unstable monster bodies to fight those with stable bodies to gain a stable body of it's own. If it lacks a stable body for too long, it dies.

[ATHATH]

Have y'all heard of a minigame for Minecraft called Death Swap? If not, look it up. I think it's relevant.

[OceanSoul]

I've heard of it, I thing. Two people are very, very far apart in a Minecraft world, and swap positions every so often. Their goal is to set up traps to kill the other person when they swap positions. Not sure how we could use any of those ideas, though.