There was a while where the Sailor Moon RPG was insanely popular here in Uruguay, you'd always see a group (almost always an all-teenage-girl group) playing it here.  It was largely responsible for the influx of a large number of young women into the local hobby.

Quote from: yosemitemike;868410The problem with the Sailor Moon RPG is that the planned follow-up books never came out so it only covers season one.  How am I supposed to proceed without canonical stats for the Sailor Starlights?

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Anyway, someone tried to make a BESM retroclone? And no, OVA doesn't count.

Quote from: DarcyDettmann;868495Anyway, someone tried to make a BESM retroclone? And no, OVA doesn't count.

OVA was out at about the same time, it's over 10 years old as a system, so no, it's not a retro-clone of anything.

In other news, I found my Grave of Uresia book!  And my BESM Dungeon for fantasy book!  HAPPY!

Quote from: Christopher Brady;868583OVA was out at about the same time, it's over 10 years old as a system, so no, it's not a retro-clone of anything.

In other news, I found my Grave of Uresia book!  And my BESM Dungeon for fantasy book!  HAPPY!

Yay!

As a note, S. John Ross released an updated edition of 'Grave of Uresia' a while back, you can find it on Lulu.  Non-system specific.

Quote from: jcfiala;868631Yay!

As a note, S. John Ross released an updated edition of 'Grave of Uresia' a while back, you can find it on Lulu.  Non-system specific.

The only issue I have with it is the price.  I don't know why, but I get twitchy when it jumps over 15USD.  Then again, I am Canadian, and at this moment, it works out to 20CDN, and given my financial situation, I really need to count the pennies first.

Quote from: DarcyDettmann;868495Anyway, someone tried to make a BESM retroclone?

What would such a thing actually look like?

Well, funny you should mention it, but I am in the early concept phases of creating an OSR retro game that can best be described as OD&D meets BESM in a lot of ways. The RPG is titled Anime & Adventuring and I have made a thread for it in the Design forum.

I love Silver Age Sentinels. I'd like to see official character sheets for the rest of the characters illustrated in the core book (Red Minstrel and Muzhik for example).

     I've not had the opportunity to play BESM 3e, however I've read it and despite some minor typos it stands as my favorite iteration of Tri-stat.

     I'll also purchase both the Empire City Sourcebook and Whispering Winds the day they're released if that day ever comes.

     If Arthaus / Onyx Path converted Silver Age Sentinels to BESM 3e they'd have a runaway hit on their hands.

Quote from: yosemitemike;868646What would such a thing actually look like?

Probably very similar to H.O.L. now that I think about it

Quote from: Wiroki;877284If Arthaus / Onyx Path converted Silver Age Sentinels to BESM 3e they'd have a runaway hit on their hands.

I love Silver Age Sentinels too but I very much doubt that is the case.  The anime boom is long over.    

Quote from: TristramEvans;877319Probably very similar to H.O.L. now that I think about it

I don't get it.  It's been too long since I read H.O.L.

Quote from: yosemitemike;877339I don't get it.  It's been too long since I read H.O.L.

Minimal stats with a d6 mechanic + "traits"

BESM was Body Mind and Soul, just thinking that a retroclone could have something like "Brain" "Meat" and "Heart", made me immediately think of HOL's system.

BESM 3rd edition stands as my favorite system for running an actual "Anime" game. I had an awesome "Ranma 1/2 the Next Generation" campaign going for awhile...

Alas, my girlfriend of 2 years is not the biggest fan of Anime, so I've had little motivation to run an actual Anime style game... That and the more "subgerne-ish" Anime settings tend to have systems which are more easily accessible..

Cyberpunk with Psychics? Well, I can use Interface Zero, or Mutants and Masterminds..

God like powerful fantasy characters? Well Godbound handles that perfectly now...

Regular anime style fantasy? D&D 5th can handle that with an emphasis on trappings..

Still, it works great for a lot of other typical anime style genres, and I might use the system to specifically model a particular series I wanted to use...or if I was using the provided setting ((Seriously, the 3rd ed setting for BESM is fucking awesome))

But, my GF is in my gaming group...and well, I wouldn't be able to get her to play if it were a straight up Anime game...If I had more time to game, I could just run it on a different day...however given the hassles of real life, I can only afford one game day a week.

Quote from: Orphan81;877378Regular anime style fantasy? D&D 5th can handle that with an emphasis on trappings..

Really?  Cuz I know of no rogue who can grab a formerly chained monster's manacle get tossed some 50 feet into the air, grab a clothesline use it to increase momentum to remove it's chest plate.

5e can do fantasy, but outside of magic, it's can't do anime physics very well.

It can do Lodoss War style anime fantasy but Lodoss War essentially is D&D.  It started as someone's D&D setting.

I would love to run a Precure game but I don't have any players that "get" how the franchise works or have any interest in playing.

Quote from: Christopher Brady;877384Really?  Cuz I know of no rogue who can grab a formerly chained monster's manacle get tossed some 50 feet into the air, grab a clothesline use it to increase momentum to remove it's chest plate.

5e can do fantasy, but outside of magic, it's can't do anime physics very well.

Hence why I said "Godbound" for over the top Anime Fantasy...

If you want something more like Lodoss war, or Berserk, 5th edition can do that fine.

Edit: I say Godbound now because I love it, but before it, Exalted and Mutants and Masterminds did fantasy anime great too. Well Exalted 1st ed.