I can't fucking wait.  This will drive the rpg sjw crowd nuts. 

https://www.geeknative.com/134247/goblin-slayer-controversial-anime-to-get-a-tabletop-rpg/

This should be entertaining.

I like the manga so this will likely be a buy for me. The world of GS isn't really that fleshed out, so I'm wondering how much of the actual setting is in the game. I could see this being a case where a lot of the world-building is left up to the GM to figure out. If they do expand on the world, it'd be cool to see an actual map of the setting.

Also, this would be a must-have for GMs who struggle to come up with names for NPCs all the time.

YES YES YES!
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I have wanted to play this TRPG FOR AGES!  IT'S SO RARE FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE RPGS TO GET TRANSLATIONS!

I'm still sore that the Polish language only Witcher RPG Wiedźmin: Gra Wyobraźni never got a translation. I love the R Talsorian RPG, but I would have loved to see it. There was a translation on project on 4chan, but it was abandoned part way through. it looked like a fun D6 system with elements of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

Quote from: Brand55 on August 20, 2021, 09:52:50 PM
Also, this would be a must-have for GMs who struggle to come up with names for NPCs all the time.

Lol, yeah everyone is named just like in Keep of the Borderlands.

I was just reading the first manga in Side Story 2: Dai Katana and it has some fun D&D campaign ideas in it-

• City built right next to megadungeon that is full of adventurers
• Temple has a bunch of mortally wounded adventurers in stasis that you can revive for a price.  They couldn't afford to be raised from the dead so were preserved instead.  It's like a store where you can buy npc hirelings.
• Priests available for identifying magic items.
• Gladiator arena where adventurers fight undead from the dungeon for cash

From what I remember - the whole setting is basically just a D&D setting which ran with the 'should you kill goblin babies?' idea, to think if they really are inherently evil. Goblin Slayer's setting just made them so horrible that the answer is "yes, yes you definitely should".

A mix of grimdark but with more hopefulness than something like Warhammer would have.

Oh boy. Someone make some popcorn, I'll go get the sodas. This is gonna be comedy gold, watching the SJWs freak out.

  I have only watched a season of the animated version; I guess I do not get the controversy.  The series literally played like a dungeons and dragons table top game, just with a DM willing to TPK 1st level characters, well, and I guess that can be considered controversial (not the killing, but the other stuff the DM felt necessary to happen to a female character) in the first episode I saw.  But the killing babies I missed as being controversial at all, especially seeing how goblins come into the world.

Seems like it would be a great video game more than a TTRPG, though I know the anime features a lot of dice rolling offscreen 'gods' (ie players & GM). I'm not sure what having a dedicated ruleset adds that I can't do with D&D?

QuoteThe game engine needs 2d6, which are called Fate dice,...

But it's not 'Fate' fate, is it?

Also "Controversial anime..." sounds so 90's. That should be 'Problematic' anime 

Cos I was interested in this when it was announced, I've done a bit of internet searching today. From what I can pick up (but I may be wrong) I'm reasonably certain that the basis of the game is popular Japanese rpg Sword World. It's been modified to match the Goblin Slayer universe (ie adventurers have 10 levels, porcelain -> platinum, 8 playable classes Warrior, Martial Artist, Ranger, Scout, Wizard, Priest, Dragon Priest And Spirit Messenger (4 Martial, 4 Spell Casters), Playable Races Human, High Elf, Half Elf, Dwarf, Lizard Folk, Rhea) and the Japanese version of Goblin Slayer TTRPG was released about the same time as Sword World 2.5 (which I assume the Goblin Slayer TTRPG is based upon). A Goblin Slayer Supplement (Japanese) was released in 2021.

This is a must have. I really enjoyed Goblin Slayer and need MOAR!

Quote from: oggsmash on August 21, 2021, 02:24:38 AM
  I have only watched a season of the animated version; I guess I do not get the controversy. 

The manga is quite a bit more graphic than the anime both in violence and rape.  And where modern gamers seem to love cutesy goblins and even play goblin pc's in their games today, GS goes full on genocide mode on truly evil goblins. 

Quote from: Hakdov on August 21, 2021, 09:10:13 AM

Quote from: oggsmash on August 21, 2021, 02:24:38 AM
  I have only watched a season of the animated version; I guess I do not get the controversy. 

The manga is quite a bit more graphic than the anime both in violence and rape.  And where modern gamers seem to love cutesy goblins and even play goblin pc's in their games today, GS goes full on genocide mode on truly evil goblins.

   I know.  That is not controversial to me I guess, given the medium.  I thought the graphic rape was over the top (as I get older, I find I dont care to see graphic violence or rapes, or even sexual encounters, simply suggesting it is enough for me to know what happened), but often in RPGs gms will suggest a "bad group" is doing all sorts of terrible stuff.  So i felt the audience that would most care for Goblin Slayer (Manga, anime, or table top rpg fans/players) are not exactly going to be shocked by what goes on there. 

   I also think I have a pretty complete disconnect from modern gamers.  At least in a sense of what they may be expecting an RPG session to be, as all the people I play with are Conan fans for instance, and though Howard never went into graphic details about sexual assault, he did suggest it a good bit, and wallowed in graphic violence.   I guess my perspective (Conan fans, of say Howard's work and Savage Sword of Conan fans) are not going to find anything controversial about GS.  I would have to be around these folks playing cute gobbers maybe to get a better read on that mind set.

It's already a banned topic at TBP.

Quote from: Armchair Gamer on August 21, 2021, 10:29:52 AM
It's already a banned topic at TBP.

I find that hilarious. 

I'm intrigued about this game.  Ill definitely check it out.