Where did the isekai obsession with slavery begin? I feel like the easy answer is shield hero, but that itself is so derivative that it had to take the idea from somewhere else. What is the patient zero here?
Had an idea for a one page osr game that uses a tarot deck. Each class (fighter, rogue, cleric, mage) gets bonuses for each suite (swords, pentacles, cups, wands) and every player would have a card from the major arcana serve as their patron and one as their nemesis (how this would work would be roleplayed at the GMs discretion). I did the math and the distribution of card values roughly tracks with d20 rolls. Also there are gameplay opportunities for deck modification, such as scrying and shuffling the deck.
I love being called idealistic by these people.