Quote from: Benoist;538227Here it is really useful. You should try it.

But I like you Ben even when you get onery, oh you mean ignore other people.  No one has gotten me mad enough yet. TCO and BT get close but I mostly ignore them anyway.

Fuck 'Anime'.

Its not D&D.

(Its also NOT GURPS)





- Ed C.

Exalted is anime, right?

Quote from: Koltar;538235Fuck 'Anime'.

Its not D&D.

(Its also NOT GURPS)





- Ed C.

Also not Fantasy Craft or Pathfinder.

(Just being helpful).

Quote from: Dodger;538236Exalted is anime, right?

Never ever say that at TBP.

I have always considered it so. Or maybe high powered Wuxia.

Quote from: Koltar;538235Fuck 'Anime'.

Its not D&D.

- Ed C.

Record of Lodoss Wars begs to differ.

Quote from: Dodger;538236Exalted is anime, right?

Exalted is super sentai. Like the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

No, Exalted is shit.

Quote from: jeff37923;538246Exalted is super sentai. Like the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

I concede anime is in Dnd's bloodline just like everything else but I digress.  My question is what's Sentai and what's its difference from Wuxia? Two questions I guess.

Quote from: Marleycat;538252I concede anime is in Dnd's bloodline just like everything else but I digress.  My question is what's Sentai and what's its difference from Wuxia? Two questions I guess.

Sentai is a word for a military unit and may be literally translated as "squadron", "task force", "group" or "wing". It often is used to refer to television dramas that uses the word sentai to describe a group of three or more costumed superheroes (whose core team generally consists of five members) who often pilot mecha. Think Power Rangers or Kamen Rider.

Wuxia (literally "martial hero") is a broad genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of literature, its popularity has caused it to spread to diverse art forms like Chinese opera, manhua (Chinese comics), films, television series, and video games. In the US, the term is often used to refer to movies that use wires to simulate incredible martial arts maneuvers (aka: wire-fu). Think almost any Tsui Hark movie.

Quote from: nightwind1;538253Sentai is a word for a military unit and may be literally translated as "squadron", "task force", "group" or "wing". It often is used to refer to television dramas that uses the word sentai to describe a group of three or more costumed superheroes (whose core team generally consists of five members) who often pilot mecha. Think Power Rangers or Kamen Rider.

Wuxia (literally "martial hero") is a broad genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of literature, its popularity has caused it to spread to diverse art forms like Chinese opera, manhua (Chinese comics), films, television series, and video games. In the US, the term is often used to refer to movies that use wires to simulate incredible martial arts maneuvers (aka: wire-fu). Think almost any Tsui Hark movie.

Thank you sir. I even know the context Jeff was using the term in now. I agree btw.

4e is classic sentai TCO even admits it. Hence I am correct 4e isn't Dnd.

Quote from: CRKrueger;537505Apparently it's one where the iconics look like this...

Please do not use imageshack images here, Krueger; people in a number of countries can't actually see them.

RPGPundit

Quote from: Dirk Remmecke;537628Didn't even The Pundit say that RPGs (and D&D in particular) need to get closer to the anime aesthetic in order to cater to modern kids?
His initial plan for FtA! was an anime-themed release.

It might be a slight exaggeration saying that it was my initial plan, but sure, I said those things you quoted.  

That was also about what, 5 years ago now?

I think the problem a lot of people have is that they're always playing catch-up with "what the kids are into".


RPGPundit

I seriously wish I couldn't.  Ouchie Momma!

Quote from: jeff37923;538245Record of Lodoss Wars begs to differ.

A bit of an aside for this thread, but I could never get why that stuff was so highly regarded. A few years ago it came up in a discussion on another RPG forum and I thought "What the hell, I have enjoyed some anime in the past, let's check it out.", so I watched the first episode of some "Lodoss War OVA" on youtube. It was thoroughly unimpressive and contained absolutely nothing that would stand out as interesting or noteworthy. "Well, that was just the first episode; maybe it needs some time to get into high gear. I should give it a fair chance." - I thought, and watched another 4 or 5 episodes.

Man, I'm never getting those couple of wasted hours back. It failed to get into any sort of high gear by episode 6 or so and remained thorougly unimpressive and un-noteworthy. It had a dour dwarf who was so unoriginal they couldn't even bother coming up with a name for him other than "it's a shorter version of Gimli", an elf whose ears and shoulder plates were locked in a ridiculously epic struggle for width who was the worst representative of the sort of utter brainlessness some genres of anime seem to find cute and endearing ("We're in the middle of a dangerous place on a world-saving mission, so maybe we shouldn't screw up. Look, there's a shiny item completely unrelated to our world-saving quest! Let's grab it, it can't possibly be an obvious trap! Yes, I have the mental capacity of a 6 year old!"), and some human characters who were so utterly devoid of interest I can't even remember anything about them.

And I don't care if "it was groundbreaking at the time, all that stuff in it that's considered passé today was totally innovative!". It may be true, but it was boring originally, too. It was breaking ground not worth breaking.

Ahh, I needed to vent that. Much better now.