Hence Sentai & Sensibility as my example here. A story about being a Power Ranger saving the city and also a noble embroiled in early-America social dramatics would be hard to improv using PBTA, FATE, or many other narrative-focused systems. It needs mechanics as unique as its setting.

I think a mistake a lot of TTRPGs make is trying to be unique in their mechanics purely for the sake of standing out. If you're gonna make a whole-ass mechanical system from scratch, it should be because no existing base suits your needs.

Oh crap you probably meant something without a base uhh

Yeah the second answer is my real one then. Base systems exist to help people streamline the beginning process of game design and focus on keeping their game ... Well, focused. Set in its niche and so-forth.

I'm a basic bitch, so if it's PBTA I'm probably gonna go for it.

Otherwise, it has to be filling a void I didn't know existed before. Sentai & Sensibility comes to mind.

Where the endless array of incredible creations somehow fails to enable genius, remember that FATE does technically do whatever you need.

Or you could play an Awakened Lion in Starfinder if you have a really cool GM, I prolly shoulda led with that huh

You forgot one

I hope a publisher is looking at these because I have no coding ability but holy shit do I want this game to happen.

The only argument I could see against this is that support for online games requires that they generate revenue, but no gacha game I know of *needs* to be online. The vast majority are single-player unless you choose to co-op, and you wouldn't need a central server to allow for that.

My favorite part of gachas is that I don't know who I'm gonna get, or what equipment I'll have available for them. This restriction forces me to get creative with party builds and makes my squad inherently different from anyone else's. Whales and time sinks break that, so just ... Take them out.

I'm talking no dailies, no microtransactions, just an RPG that has a plethora of characters and randomizes which ones the player has access to in a given playthrough. It'd be hell to balance, but every run would be unique and require a different strategy. I think it would be a great game.

*JEFFREY EPSTEIN holy shit I'm bad at this