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Anonymous No.96348639 >>96348838 >>96348849 >>96349110 >>96349139 >>96349185 >>96349212 >>96349267 >>96349293 >>96351421 >>96351432 >>96352196 >>96352545 >>96352889 >>96353309 >>96354316 >>96365100 >>96372224 >>96376068 >>96376736 >>96377951 >>96379665
Magical Girl RPG
Are there any dedicated systems or GURPS supplements that let you play a magical girl type game?
Anonymous No.96348646 >>96368354 >>96376542
have you considered a shotgun blast to the head?
Anonymous No.96348713
Getting kinda tired of having three
>what system
Threads a day. Can you spam something else?
Anonymous No.96348838 >>96349110 >>96352304 >>96352902
>>96348639 (OP)
Just use some narrative non-game "system" like FATE. You're never going to get a mechanical system that accurately simulates an anime genre.
Anonymous No.96348849
>>96348639 (OP)
Princess Wing
Anonymous No.96348872 >>96349110
Come home, fa/tg/uy.
https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?258654
Anonymous No.96349110 >>96352902 >>96354463 >>96358076
>>96348639 (OP)
Several in fact. Some even made here on /tg/.

>>96348838
>You're never going to get a mechanical system that accurately simulates an anime genre.
You can, it's just for some reason no one ever builds them that way, because they're too focused on building something based on what they know.

for instance >>96348872 is based in D&D 3.5 of all things. Horrible match. Not remotely anime.

An anime based system needs to be built ground up form first principles because there's nothing good already built to base it on yet.
Anonymous No.96349139
>>96348639 (OP)
I imagine there are some Japanese systems for it. Failing that, there are some Tokusatsu games that could be switched over pretty easily I would think. The brightly colored crime and/or monster fighters with coordinated poses and transformation sequences being pubescent girls instead of co-ed teenagers wouldn't actually change much mechanically.
Anonymous No.96349185
>>96348639 (OP)
Me and my group had fun reskinning Battle Century G as a magical girl game.
Anonymous No.96349212
>>96348639 (OP)
Princess the Hopeful.
Anonymous No.96349267
>>96348639 (OP)
OVA does it well enough.
Anonymous No.96349293
>>96348639 (OP)
My group tried Daisy Chainsaw for a bit. It's ok. Mostly functional but we needed to do a lot of houseruling to get it working right for us.
Anonymous No.96349344 >>96351378 >>96351594
Magical Burst used to be good. I can't remember which version update was the last good one though? I know the most recent one is dogshit though.
Anonymous No.96351378 >>96351594
>>96349344
The author went hard into using the game to push his politics, the last version of Magical Burst I read had a whole finger-wagging section about how "Boys can be Magical Girls too". Yeah, not an author I want to support.
Anonymous No.96351421
>>96348639 (OP)
If you want to play a magical girl rpg maybe this one?
>Soldier Lune - A Magical Girl Tabletop Role-Playing Game
Anonymous No.96351432
>>96348639 (OP)
https://files.catbox.moe/zixku7.pdf
Anonymous No.96351594
>>96349344
>>96351378
Magical Burst is literally just a shitty ripoff off PbtA and FATE anyway. FATE at least spares you the preaching.
Anonymous No.96352196
>>96348639 (OP)
I'm making one.
Anonymous No.96352304
>>96348838
>You're never going to get a mechanical system that accurately simulates an anime genre.
You can, but it's not what OP wants.
https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/World_of_Five_Nations
Anonymous No.96352545
>>96348639 (OP)
Almost wanna say 3D&T, but I'm not sure there are rules specifically for magical girls and if there's an english translation yet. For a few other anime genres it seems to do fine.
Anonymous No.96352889
>>96348639 (OP)
>GURPS
GURPS Sorcery is perfect for what you want, since it allows you to make up whatever nonsensical spell you want your magical girls to have.
More importantly for the OP pic, sex appeal and erotic arts are both skills already in the game.
Anonymous No.96352902
>>96348838
>>96349110
>An anime based system needs to be built ground up form first principles because there's nothing good already built to base it on yet.
>You're never going to get a mechanical system that accurately simulates an anime genre.
I don't see why you can't use GURPS for it. The cinematic rules are perfect for the sort of combat you see in anime, and social engineering details rules for social stuff for non-action anime.

The only anime genre that wouldn't work is mecha because, sadly, GURPS 4e never got a vehicles book, and the pyramid articles about mecha would only work for stuff like VOTOMs, not gundam or giant robo.
Anonymous No.96353309 >>96353469 >>96361620 >>96371623
>>96348639 (OP)
GURPS basic set, GURPS thaumatology ritual path magic, GURPS martial arts.
Download the program gurps GCS, gcs stands for gurps character sheet, so the project is called GURPS GURPS Character Sheet when written in long form, and thats funni.

Every magical girl power is sourced from a gem, sometimes a gem is a literal gem, a shiny rock, sometimes its a pendant, a band, staff, and so on, but there is always one. Sometimes the gem is inside their bodies, sometimes inside their soul, but the symbol of their powers is a physical or spiritual object which can be reached, broken, corrupted, healed and so on.

If you want madoka(in spirit) keep Ritual Path Magic as is, use ZERO cinematic rules, and give each player 1-2 hundred points to make their characters. Limit their physical bodies to only mundane physical and mundane mental advantages.
Allow them a additional 2-4 hundred points to build their gems, you'll want said gems to be in a locket, armor piece(chestplate, whatever), magical staff or weapon of some sort, like a bow or sword, allow your players to choose.

If your gem goes too far from you your body straight on gives up, do a HT roll each second the gem is further than 30cm from you, pass out on a fail, each subsequent fail drains 20 character points until you run out of advantages and skills to erase, then you die.
You may choose to take that many points as a disadvantage to stay alive or not lose any skills.
This effect is your soul being corrupted.

Allow any kind of advantages to their gems, include magical girl equipment in such. This allows to make staffs, bows, guns, swords and what not with powers in them for a discount in cost, so you can't use the powers without the sword, so having your weapon knocked out of your hand after transforming denies you those powers and what not.

Following such will give you magical girls which will get hurt and broken apart by getting hits which goes past their defensive spells, blocking and dodge.

1/2
Anonymous No.96353469 >>96353479
>>96353309
2/3

For traditional magical girls gems being away from their bodies does not slowly erase them, however she cannot transform without possession if their gems.

Do not use the kabalistic sample given by Ritual Path Magic, but rather make your own using elements of your choice, for bonus points make their domains and descriptions vague then leave your players to argue why Greater Create Love should be able to manufacture a giant pile of sweet rolls, and then explain why sweet rolls are in fact an aspect of love.

For example: Moon, Love, Heart, Light, Soul, and of course; Raw

Make so creating a strong powerfull wand with your gem in it and a LOT of energy reserve is important and valuable, or, other types of weapon/tools which carry your gem.

Give your big enemy of the month domain over bullshit madeup new elements, like Ice, and also do not properly define its domain nor what it has access to.

And most importantly make one "everything" element which sounds good by name but is actually evil in nature because it covers everything, and everything includes the dangers and cruelty of life.
Give this "Everything" domain to your greatest enemy, on my previous example that would be Raw. By this point it just means anything, so you can and should just pull random undefined words and domains as part of your game to get the true experience of a magical girl show, have a mf show up and scream CREATE HARM, DESTROY HAPPYNESS, then do whatever the fuck you want.
Anonymous No.96353479
>>96353469
3/3

Give your magical girls access to all cinematic things and plenty of spells or advantages which adds magical universal protections, like Damage Reduction: Ablative, which can be recharged by magic from a Energy Reserve.
Or, make sure to always allow spells which can cast such barriers, they will be bullshit, and be vaguely defined, such as, still following the previously given example; Greater Create Heart "Barrier of Heart", have your players explain to you why "heart" can obviously stop harm and damage by forming a red energy shield of ablative DR, then charge for the spell creation as regular given its effect, enhancements and so on.

Have fun anon.
Anonymous No.96354316
>>96348639 (OP)
Didn't you make this thread a few months ago?

I already suggested Princess Wing, dangit!
Anonymous No.96354463
>>96349110
Why do you pretend there are no Japanese tabletop games?
Anonymous No.96358076
>>96349110
Big Eyes Small Mouth.
Anonymous No.96361620
>>96353309
This was shit years ago and it's shit now.
Anonymous No.96365100 >>96368908
>>96348639 (OP)
Yeah, it's called FATAL
Anonymous No.96368354
>>96348646
some sort of Persona / Kurt Cobain crossover could work as a magical girl reflavor
Anonymous No.96368908 >>96368978 >>96370109 >>96372333
>>96365100
Do you really wanna go there?
Anonymous No.96368978 >>96372333
>>96368908
holy based twitter post
Anonymous No.96370109 >>96370328
>>96368908
"No need for a third nuke", they said, "two should be enough"...
Anonymous No.96370328 >>96370530
>>96370109
I'd rather that than all the spastic troonshit going on in the west.
Anonymous No.96370530 >>96378026
>>96370328
Two wrongs don't make one right
Anonymous No.96371623
>>96353309
>Download the program gurps GCS, gcs stands for gurps character sheet, so the project is called GURPS GURPS Character Sheet when written in long form, and thats funni.

https://gurpscharactersheet.com/
It's just called GURPS Charcter Sheet (or GCS for short), but nobody who doesn't already -have- it has no idea WTF that is.
It is super useful for looking up where certain info is in the various books.
Anonymous No.96372224
>>96348639 (OP)
Princess the hopeful is a lot of fun.


Also this reminded me of the NSFW story I wrote for magical girls.
Anonymous No.96372333
>>96368908
>>96368978
[Evangelion Fanfare Intensifies]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u6V6UisBz8
Anonymous No.96376068
>>96348639 (OP)
MAID, BESM, or ANIME 5e.
Anonymous No.96376542
>>96348646
Fpbp
Anonymous No.96376736 >>96377805
>>96348639 (OP)
Yeah, it's called Sailor Knows How To Do A Basic Google Search.
Anonymous No.96377805
>>96376736
she literally doesn't
Anonymous No.96377937
Lina is my number 1 magical girl.
Anonymous No.96377951 >>96380143
>>96348639 (OP)
You dont need a game system to jerk of to chinese cartoons of 10 year olds anon
Anonymous No.96378026
>>96370530
Choose your poison, I guess.
Anonymous No.96379665
>>96348639 (OP)

Palladium's Nightbane, if everyone plays on-theme.
Anonymous No.96380143
>>96377951
>gushing over magical girls
they're in high school