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Japanese-flavored superhero game?

Started by BoxCrayonTales, April 17, 2015, 11:12:50 PM

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tuypo1

you know my favorite Japanese superhero was not even an anime hero

big man japan was a good movie (stupid stupid ending aside)
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BESM as others have mentioned does the baser job pretty darn well.

Rifts does it too if you are ok with some heavy editing to get the job done.

Probably one of the better ones that can do Japanese super heroes is actually Mekton Zeta. The system scales well from the ubiquitous Tokatsu style Metal Hero stories up to the giant robot stage. Magical weapons can be recreated with Zeta Plus even. A really versatile system. People have even recreated Transformers with it.

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Quote from: The Butcher;826497There was a RPG magazine in Brazil back in the day and the people who wrote it also wrote a sentai RPG (sentai TV shows were huge in Brazil back in the 1980s. Go figure) called Defensores de Tóquio (literally, "Defenders of Tokyo"). I never did check it out because the magazine was crap and I figured the game would be crap too, but still, there it is.

There are a few Uruguayan gamers living here in Montevideo now that were originally from the frontier area with Brazil, they grew up reading in spanish and portuguese (and not really speaking either!).  Several of them swear by how awesome Defensores de Toquio was.
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Quote from: RPGPundit;827048There are a few Uruguayan gamers living here in Montevideo now that were originally from the frontier area with Brazil, they grew up reading in spanish and portuguese (and not really speaking either!).  Several of them swear by how awesome Defensores de Toquio was.

Really? Now there's a surprise.

Did they play any other Brazilian RPGs?


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Quote from: RPGPundit;827048There are a few Uruguayan gamers living here in Montevideo now that were originally from the frontier area with Brazil, they grew up reading in spanish and portuguese (and not really speaking either!).  Several of them swear by how awesome Defensores de Toquio was.

What about the Brazilian RPG Quest? Seems like it has lots of support?

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Quote from: The Butcher;827077Really? Now there's a surprise.

Did they play any other Brazilian RPGs?

Yes, a few others.  I've heard of "Tormenta" and something similar to "3D&T" or something like that?

Also, you can tell the Uruguayan gamers that come from the north (aside from their weird "portuniol" dialect) because they're the only GURPS fans in the country.  GURPS was apparently really huge in Brazil (don't know if it still is), whereas it was never huge in the Spanish-speaking countries (something to do with a portuguese translation of GURPS having been one of the first big games readily available in Brazil, I believe).
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3D&T is the third edition of Defensores de Tóquio.

Tormenta was a fantasy RPG from the same authors, later statted up for d20/3.5e.

As for GURPS, correct on both counts: one of the first Portuguese-language RPG (barring the 1985 or 1986 Red Box translation from Portugal, nearly mythically hard to find in Brazil) and absolutely huge back in the day. Steve Jackson was a guest of honor in a couple of cons in the early 90s in Rio.

It's certainly got its diehard fans, but it's not as often seen out there in the wild. But then again, what is? I haven't attended a RPG meet-up in a while, but when I see the announcements and planned games, I get the impression that it's eay, way down from the early 1990s.

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Quote from: The Butcher;827570Steve Jackson was a guest of honor in a couple of cons in the early 90s in Rio.

I remember reading the rumor or claim that those conventions were absolutely huge (as in: Gen Con proportions).
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Big, yeah — the 1990s were the South American "fad" period for RPGs, much like the 1980s in the Anglosphere — but I don't think they were Gen Con big.

tuypo1

Quote from: The Butcher;8275703D&T is the third edition of Defensores de Tóquio.

Tormenta was a fantasy RPG from the same authors, later statted up for d20/3.5e.

As for GURPS, correct on both counts: one of the first Portuguese-language RPG (barring the 1985 or 1986 Red Box translation from Portugal, nearly mythically hard to find in Brazil) and absolutely huge back in the day. Steve Jackson was a guest of honor in a couple of cons in the early 90s in Rio.

It's certainly got its diehard fans, but it's not as often seen out there in the wild. But then again, what is? I haven't attended a RPG meet-up in a while, but when I see the announcements and planned games, I get the impression that it's eay, way down from the early 1990s.

i just acquired a freshly translated character background table for 3d&t
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Quote from: The Butcher;8275703D&T is the third edition of Defensores de Tóquio.

Tormenta was a fantasy RPG from the same authors, later statted up for d20/3.5e.

Yes, Tormenta is another one that's very popular with the northerners.
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