[rp] so this is nothing more than a vague thought at the moment, but I feel like etrian odyssey would make a good basis for a shortish-term game (like a multi-round murdergame except not a murdergame)
there wouldn't be murders but there'd still be some kind of weekly death mechanic to free up character slots for the next round because yggdrasil is dangerous
maybe there's not really a proper town at the foot of the tree so much as a "base camp," so there's incentive to keep doing the dangerous thing because the alternative is to just wander off into the also dangerous wilderness
to free up character slots for the next roundbecause yggdrasil is dangerous