Themes:

• Abandonment: Characters explore negative feelings of having been left by or separated from loved ones. Sometimes they are reunited and confront the person about their resentment.
• Adult humor: Jokes are often raunchy or deal with bodily functions. There is a lot of swearing.
• Ageism: Many jokes about dying from old age and what age effects.
• Alcohol: Characters frequently drink, and many scenes take place in bars. Sometimes alcoholism is depicted or discussed.
• Assassination attempt: A character's backstory involves being present for an assassination attempt on their leader and losing people in the attack.
• Black goo: A black goo substance is part of a character's monstrous transformation and frequently described.
• Blood and gore: Frequent scenes of injury or combat, often to the death.
• Body Horror (Form of Dread): A spell is used that transforms the character into something horrifying of their choice and is described when used.
• Body horror (transformation): Character backstories involve unwanted body transformations that occurred after traumatic events.
• Class divide: The story highlights the way opportunities for people change based on their money and connections.
• Complicated family relationships: Many characters have complicated relationships with their families, including abuse and neglect.
• Conspiracies: Many in-world conspiracy theories are discussed. Some turn out to be true conspiracies affecting the characters.
• Corruption: Certain powers cause a distressing progressive effect as the character levels up.
• Creepy Whispers: When using mental communication spells, Laudna's words are echoed by the cast collectively overlaying their voices to make ghostly whispers.
• Death, dying, and grief: Many character backstories deal with death, and characters lose people close to them during the story. Characters often discuss their grief and how they're processing it.
• Debates about personhood: A character questions when a conscious being qualifies as a person and the nature of agency and consciousness.
• Dislocations, breaks, and decay: A character's body is partly decaying and frequently breaks down for comedic effect. This includes weak joints that frequently dislocate and are quickly reset and broken bones that quickly heal.
• Exotic pet: A character has a dangerous supernatural exotic pet with some intelligence.
• Experimental medicine: A character's backstory involves having experimental medicine used on them.
• Exploitation (debt): Substantial debt is used as leverage against a person, forcing them to repay it in labor.
• Fear of crowds: A character expresses distress at being in crowded spaces.
• Flesh Tongue: Running joke that FCG has a fleshy tongue.
• Food: Frequent scenes set at restaurants or during mealtimes. Often players snack at the table.
• Guns: In Campaign 3, gun usage has become common knowledge and characters outside of whitestone now use and reference them more than before.
• Heights: Frequent scenes where characters are on tall land formations, in cable cars, flying, or otherwise far above the ground.
• Horror monsters: Many different kinds of horror creatures appear. Including corrupted creatures, creatures that mutate, ghosts, giant insects, carnivorous plants, things that aren't animals, undead, werewolves, and more.
• Inconsistent time: Time in different planes working differently causing gaps in experienced time for characters.
• Institutional childcare: A character's backstory involves growing up in an orphanage.
• Kleptomania/petty theft: A character steals very frequently for the thrill of it, sometimes endangering the group.
• Law Enforcement: All cities have been shown to have armed guards with law enforcement powers.
• Loss of control/compulsion: Occasionally characters experience moments where they lash out without conscious direction. Repeated conversations happen acknowledging the possible triggers and mitigating tools to help each other manage it.
• Lying: Characters frequently lie.
• Mental magic: Characters can shape the thoughts of others and control their behavior.
• Mind reading: Psychic powers are used to read and speak into other people's minds. Sometimes this is secretive or unwanted.
• Misogyny: Repeated jokes that use sexism and alpha male beliefs to highlight that they are harmful and incorrect ideologies.
• Missing time: For various reasons, characters lose long stretches of time in their lives and are separated from their past because of it.
• Monstrous transformation: Characters transform into monstrous forms. Sometimes this is in their control and sometimes it's not. The transformations are often described in graphic and unsettling ways.
• Near death experience: Characters experience close calls with death. Their experiences and visions are described.
• Queer death/spouse death: A character's backstory involves their queer spouse dying.
• Reoccurring nightmares: A character experiences a recurring dream that is frequently distressing and expresses doubt about what is real.
• Self-harm: A character's class abilities are activated through drawing their own blood.
• Self-sacrifice: Characters frequently put themselves in serious danger to protect other characters. Some characters have game mechanics that encourage this.
• Social isolation and persecution: Characters share experiences of being ostracized, socially isolated, or forced to leave towns due to the circumstances of their upbringing and innate traits.
• Survivor's guilt: Characters express negative feelings about making it through traumatic experiences when other people they cared about did not.
• Taxidermy: A character has a puppet made of remains from multiple animals are stitched together that they frequently play with and perform for others.
• Therapy: Poorly done therapy and positivity are used by a character to resolve conflicts and hard feelings. Sometimes this is unasked for. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy vibes but not practices.
• Toxic positivity: A character uses relentless positivity to respond to all situations. This is discussed with them.
• Toxic work environment: A character's backstory includes a workplace where owners disregarded the feelings and expertise of workers to the point of violence.
• Trauma: Characters frequently explore the trauma they've endured, how it's affected them in the past, and how it's affecting them currently.
• Traumatic Injury: repeated discussions about the event and the long-term physical effects.
• Undead: A character's backstory includes details of dying and being revived in an incomplete way through necromancy.