Characters play recently-departed souls, send on missions to attempt to resolve their unfinished business and build up good karma before being reincarnated. Sort of a cross between 'Ghost' and 'Beetlejuice', the tone shifts from horror to humor. Sometimes it works, sometimes less so (the writers have a very corny and dated sense of humor, even for the time).

Character creation involves first determining profession, then method of death (which gives some skills and starting gear). Then you determine what sort of lost soul you become, and consistency (how you appear - this will almost always conflict with the actual lost soul type). The lost soul type has some unique powers, and you can pick some based on how much starting karma you have. Next is an interesting and random background system to determine some background info.

The system is interesting, the setting is rife with possibilities, but the ghostly powers are ludicrously unbalanced, and players will often discover that only one of them has any power that can be useful in the real world.