Thread 96715497

Favorite anime-inspired games? Could be adapted from a specific anime or just based on the medium and its conventions.

>>96715497 (OP)
My friends and I played the hell outa Bubblegum Crisis, back in highschool. All I really remember is that we played it a ton and had lots of fun. So that, I guess. In fact seeing your Project Ako pic is what made me think of it. That, Tank Police, Bubblegum Crisis, Akira and Vampire Hunter D were prolly the sum-total of Anime we'd seen.

MAID.

Is there an equivalent of Toon by Steve Jackson Games for anime?

>>96715497 (OP)
I like Anime: Beyond Fantasy a lot.
It's overpowered bullshit from start to finish to the point that it doesn't feel so much like it.

>>96718075
MAID, unironically.

Huh, there was apparently a Sailor Moon TTRPG.

You can tell it's from the 90s because they used the "Japanese anime" tautology

>>96718075
>Warren Spektor
What the fug

>>96721073
Not even the weirdest thing he was a part of.

Open Versatile Anime

>>96715497 (OP)
One of the best ones out there!

right now, Heavy Gear.
though its probably going to be Satasupe when it gets fully translated.

>>96716633
>>96719679
Based and MAIDpilled

>>96721231
I will need a pdf of that.

>>96715497 (OP)
>>96715856
>>96720761
>>96721870
All of these 90's anime RPGs were basically fanbooks that just had some sort of rules awkwardly crammed in amid all the lore. They're cool, but they were clearly made because some nerd wanted to gush about how much he loved anime and internet wasn't widespread enough yet for him to make a website instead. Mechanics were an afterthought.

>>96721935
BESM was great for quick anime fun, Fuzion was just a poorman version of HERO.

There are some unofficial Dragon Ball TTRPGs.

Nechronica and Tenra Basho Zero. Unfortunately never got to play Shinobigami.

>>96721231

Aaaaah, perfect with Golden Sky Stories next to it.

>>96721528
I'm still attached to my big booty Maid that's actually an angel ghost, doesn't know her past life, and is in training to be a proper bride. And has a revolver. And a lube bottle.
Just making characters in that game is fun.

>>96720761
My wife has that book, and the expansion for it. One of the first RPG characters I ever made was for this, since she was the one that introduced me to tabletop

>>96727601
I can't help but be curious; what was your character?

>>96721143
This system is alright. Pretty good even. It's "anime" in name only, however. You will have to provide the vibes yourself, but if your group can do that, it's a decent little system.

>>96727527
Yeah making characters and playing them in MAID is simple and rewarding

>>96721536
https://www.scribd.com/document/685822200/Zettai-Reido-Continued-Rules-Translation

https://2d4chan.org/wiki/Zettai_Reido

https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Zettai_Reido

mega (dot) nz
/file/434l0CxZ#FP9x7KRp1OwPf0u48S-2GK-DfF-n8wJWmMY8i_IAlRY

look go down into the lengths and their it will be.

>>96727339
Here's the thing. I think the idea of playing as a bunch of undead toys is interesting. The problem is that you're playing as a bunch of the life-size undead doll girls with the art style a little too close to made in abyss. (The vibes of a manga artist who's most likely done loli hentai)
Which if you could sell it as undead 'engine hearts' haunted toy story it wouldn't make so many people squeamish if they're not already used to the hyper focus of Young beauty in Japan and other oriental countries.

Now a mechanical problem that I've heard is how do I pick up a lead pipe/a baseball bat.
If every single thing on your body is a part/weapon.
How do I as a character of this game pick up an improvise weapon off the ground.
If I can't act like Cain and disable somebody with a rock, there's problems with the game.

>>96721528
why is she threatening the dwarf

>>96728395
Over 20 years ago, haha, but I think I called him something cliche like "the Solar Knight". He was a Knight, the male-coded archetype for Tuxedo Mask / Moonlight Knight / Prince Endymion sort of characters. His powers involved light and healing, so he could dazzle enemies and restore energy to the Sailor Scouts (especially my wife's character). More of a support caster than a fighter.

>>96721935
>some nerd wanted to gush about how much he loved anime
They were just like me!

>>96729679
The little guy entered the mansion without ringing the bell. In contemporary parlance, one could say he is "cooked "

I wonder if there are any Record of Lodoss War TTRPGs that bring the adaptation cycle full circle.

>>96733275
Isn't that what sword world is?

>>96733275
Would have required a TSR licensed official module to make a properly ironic full circle.
But a lost fan project based on the Palladium RPG full of pictures ripped from the OVAs and art books like that one Five Star Stories RPG would be acceptable.

>>96715497 (OP)
Demon City Shinjuku, but used it mostly for Wicked City/Urotsukidoji inspired sessions.

Also, pic related

>>96733771
to be as close as possible, an OSE product would be the most accurate to do today. It was run using the Rules Cyclopedia.
Questing Beast recently did a video on the Japanese version of the Rules Cyclopedia.

Was there a fan-made TTRPG based on Akira back in the day? I know there was a Kickstarter for one later on.

>>96735448
You're not talking about Kishu, are you?
https://nuclearobelisk.itch.io/kishu

>>96734122
I was referring to the fact of Group SNE being unable to secure a deal with TSR for an official Lodoss campaign prompting the creation of the Lodoss Companion RPG and then Sword World in 1989.
Thus TSR securing a license after the fact, for a D&D campaign based on the 1990 OVAs would be the most profoundly ironic full circle.

>It was run using the Rules Cyclopedia
Would be have been hard to play with a mid 90's release in 1986. The first Lodoss sessions were the basic bitch red box that Shinwa translated and published in '85. This shit is so easy look up, why would you spread lies on the internet?
>Youtuber recently did a video on subject
And that answers my question.
>OSE
Is Menzter Basic that hard to grok? I mean if that was what they were playing, than how is an modern mashup of B/X/AD&D more accurate?
Your post is just all fucked up.

>>96735448
Probably. Go dig through old issues of Protoculture Addicts.

>>96737805
It's a long game that ran across multiple systems. At some point they probably used the RC instead of the spread of BECMI books.

>>96715497 (OP)
I wish it was the 1980s so I wasn't born yet and could preent my own birth :(

>>96729951

So literally the "you didn't do anything" meme. Amazing.

>>96733300
Sort of. Lodoss was originally played using D&D BECMI, but when the story became its own franchise, they released their own proprietary RPG ruleset to differentiate it from D&D - said ruleset ultimately became the basis of (and provided the setting for) the first edition of Sword World.

I wonder if Savage world has any anime inspired games under its belt.
I know that Chronicles of darkness or world of darkness has a few fan-made ones.
Gurps should be able to make a anime inspired game but you might have to need an industrial level bookshelf for that.
Teenagers and outer space got an anime coating to keep it fresh nowadays since it works just as well as in '80s cartoon as well as a '90s anime cartoon.

>>96741078
Savage Worlds has Savage Tokusatsu, which is, well, Tokusatsu, Kaiju and Henshin. Not exactly anime, but anime adjacent.

>>96740729
Thus cover is dogshit.

>>96721935
If you think "mechanics were an afterthought" about mekton you are nuts. Its one of the crunchiest games out there

>>96740729
Boooooo

>>96729111
>You will have to provide the vibes yourself
That applies to every single fucking themed game, you moron. Doesn't even have to be anime

You know what I think would be great for a TTRPG?

>96746645
Now that you mention it, it would be.

>>96729658
Don't forget the rules stating that you must have only one combat encounter per session with a mandatory retrospection moment after the fight.

>>96715497 (OP)
>>96719605
came here for this
you all shall learn spanish and math and play this shuuni game written by rule-obsessed lawer

>>96742877
Lets see you do better.

>>96715497 (OP)
Im procrastinating on making a hunterXhunter homebrew of mage 20, but holy shit the mage books are boring as fuck to read through. A friend reccd homebrewing savage world instead but Im unsure and feel like ive sunk coated myself out of other options

I know it's not an anime, but I think Avatar: The Last Airbender could be good for a TTRPG.

>>96762274
There is one.

Is there anything good for P&SG vibes? Fast paced, comedic, wacky fun?

>>96763420
maid

>>96757739
Sounds sick, get on it anon!

>>96763420
TOON, maybe.

>>96765174

This. Just the maids uh, not too invested in the master/God.

>>96740729
>a woman beating a bunch of dudes on the cover
Dropped it
Jk, this game is fun as hell, with a pretty cool combat system

>>96725860
there was an official one back in the 90's
i don't have the book but i might be able to find the character sheet...

>>96770794
Please share it if you do!

>>96763420
Fate RPG might do it.

>>96773380
NTA but here it is for you. Had to scan and edit one of the ones I still have brom back in highschool.

Thrash was a pretty good set of rules for imitating anime and fighting game style combat in a tabletop.

>>96778064
What exactly distinguishes "fighting" from "power"?

>>96785250
As I recall, Fighting is for unarmed attacks, Weapon is for armed attacks and Power is for ki based attacks.

This one is super fun to play on the go with a PSP

>>96718075
Teenagers From Outer Space is Urusei Yatsura with the serial numbers filed off. The "story seeds" listed in the first edition were literally episode summaries for the first season of the anime.

Anima Prime desu. I hacked it for a samurai game and it's working quite well!

Ya'll know of any TTRPGs based on pic rel?

>>96785942
>>/v/

>>96785897
Okay, I guess that makes sense.

By the way, since magic canonically exists in the Dragon Ball universe, are there mechanics for it?

>>96721870
Hell yeah brother. Mekton Zeta rocks.

>>96721935
> mechanics were an afterthought.
You clearly know nothing about mekton.

>>96757739
I wish you the best luck on this project. I'd love to see a HxH system. Most likely wouldn't have anyone to play it with, but I'd enojy at least rolling a character for the fun of it.

>>96804371
Thanks man. Im doing some taxing essays rn so I'm not working on it but ill actually commit to reading up in m20 and it's rules, getting help here and there when I need it and actually fitting it into nen and vice versa. I'll start making dedicated threads for it so people can make modifications they want since I just want to make stock human w/without NEN, and others can add chimera ants or factions or limited oc... I'll have a signal or telegram to contact me personally attached to these so look out for it in the next 3-6 weeks and I've love to get contacted by you


Also ive found by looking online 2 totally original hxh systems and 1 on Reddit based on dnd. Didn't look at the latter and gave a look at the crimson/purple pdf of 1 original ruleset and it was alright but too limited for me imo

>>96734018
Record of Lodoss War is the other way around, actually. Those are stories from a fantasy setting invented for playing RPGs. DnD, and then also Sword World.

>>96803529
Not to my recollection. The first book covered the Saiyan Saga and only had the basic rules for ki attacks. Basically each point of power spent was a die of damage when it hit, with a few options you could spend energy on for extra effects (I remember a homing option for extra accuracy). You could also spend energy to raise a deflection to block ki attacks, and if your deflection was twice as powerful it would bounce the attack back.

The second book covered the Frieza Saga and added a few more options for ki attacks/techniques (Dende's healing and hiding your power are the two I remember off the top of my head), some extra rules for saiyan characters, some (very basic) alien creation rules and some rules for training.

Book 3 covered the start of the Android Saga and added rules for playing Androids and a few more ki attack options. All the books also included some stats for the cast.

>>96809892
That's a shame. Did it at least allow you to play as a non-human earthling?

>>96813327
You could, but in Book 1 there weren't really any mechanical differences between species. It just noted that Saiyan's turned into Oozaru (x10 on all stats) with the full moon as long as they still had their tail, Namekians can regenerate limbs, etc. Book 2 added zenkai and super saiyan rules for saiyans, plus they could get infinite training benefits with heavy gravity. The alien rules were very sparse (I can't even remember what the rules were, they're that forgettable). The android rules in book 3 were just androids don't have a Power Level (effective infinite) so they were just limited by their Power Up score (the rules were only for 17 & 18 type androids).

>>96785942
hijacking the lost anon's post to ask if there are any games in the cyberpunk genre. GITS preferred obviously.

Maybe a dumb question, I like anime, I like the artwork but I don't think Japanese, so how the hell are you supposed to run any of these games? I assume some have mechanics that lend themselves nicely to the settings but I can't really imagine running a Final Fantasy type game for example. Does anyone else feel this way?
I know about the DnD influence in Japan.

>>96720761
I had that. Bought with no intention of actually playing, just because I kinda liked SM at the time.
>>96715497 (OP)
Kinda want to find a copy of that, lol.

MAGIUS

>>96814430

Considering the success of Fabula Ultima, playing tabletop FF (badly) is actually a pretty common idea

>>96816452
I am asking how you would do it well. Outside of some really obvious and shitty tropes.
I can't for example, imagine running a GITS game that wouldn't just feel like any other western cyberpunk.
Maybe it's like 40k, where you just need to be a lore nerd.

>>96816557

I don't think there is a "good" system for final fantasy, mind you. Fabula Ultima is almost certainly shit and even if you didn't open it you're right that it doesn't work on the narrative structure of the videogames. But don't conflate anything that is "animey" in the same category.

GITS in particular is probably hard to do in cyberpunk games because american games are all more less apeing CP2020, and that is DEFINITELY not all of the genre and even less GITS (assuming GITS is still there, which is already debatable). There are cyberpunk-ish moonruneland TT rpgs but I don't know them for shit. I mean, I read Ventangle, but that is... well, not our answer.

Unironically I would take a good look at the more operator-y gumshoe games like Night's Black Agents and Fall of Delta Green. I realize the movies don't really convey that but to me OG GITS is way less pure action and more investigation with action on top.

>>96816728
You're right, any system that does noir and sci-fi would probably be fine for GITS.
I guess with FF you could take any old dungeon crawler and simplify the travelling, combat and dungeon procedures. Then crank the xp gain down to nothing and you'd have a system that does most JRPG settings pretty well.

>>96814430
Bubblegum Crisis.
I only had a cursory look at the rulebook in the store, but I've only ever heard good things about the game and system.

There's Kagai! from Postmortem Studios.
It's a love song to all the really fucked up anime and Japanese horror, like Blood: the Last Vampire, Wicked City, Machine Girl, Tokyo Gore Police, Urotsukidōji, Meatball Machine, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, etc.

Did you know this existed? What are your thoughts on it?

>>96826656
Generally decent, though I do wonder about why we're supposed to think going with the more spectacular than prudent option wouldn't result in more than a few scratches (and that's assuming Jet's prosthetic arm are bolted-together face are "mere scratches"). If there isn't something in the rules, or GM advice at least, to push things in that direction I suspect it can result in some disappointment when someone follows the advice there and expecting grand adventure only for the character he's invested in to get promptly killed by some random mook.

>>96816728
I’m curious to hear why you think CP2020 wouldn’t work to play GITS. Pondsmith is obviously a huge weeb and took a lot of inspiration from anime, in Cyberpunk

>>96830097

Well, because CP is overblown bad trash. That being said, even it worked its idea of le epic showdown doesn't look very GITS-y to me,

Also no, the fact that GITS is a (later) anime is not really important.

Question: are there anime or anime-adjacent properties that never got a(n official) tabletop RPG that you think would warrant one?

>>96834621
You could absolutely turn CP2020 into GitS. Just have a cyberbrain be the first implant needed for the rest of cyberware, and make the setting more post-cyberpunk than cyberpunk, and remove humanity (the stat). Voilà! You've got GitS.

>>96840761

I would assume you're one of those types that think DND can make for a good investigation or GOT/political game, right?

>>96839550
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
I don't know if there is one, but I love this kind of post-apoc piecemeal tech, with biotech undertones, and mutated surviving biosphere.
Something like Roadside Picnic, but weirder, bolder, and set in a setting that survived a recent globe-spanning calamity or two.
>Numinera
Too much piled on top, with multiple fallen civilizations, extradimensional invasions, and the like, but it's close.

>>96840819
No. DnD has always been, and always will be garbage. For Cyberpunk 2020 I literally ran an NCPD/Arasaka mini-campaign, and it went flawlessy. The team consisted of three cops, each with distinct flavor and skills (corrupt detective, rookie forensic cop, hardened beat-cop), a corporate netrunner and a corporate solo. The case revolved around a kidnapping, a rogue AI, dirty city officials, and a cult.