It is something that we all do, so spill.

[pblackcrow]

How many of you guys based a game on anime/cartoons/TV shows? Which ones do you use? Don't post conversions or anything.

[Cinos]

I haven't for a suuper long time, but way back in like middle school I did an outlaw star themed 3 Galaxy's game.

[Stone Gargoyle]

I have done some pokemon style characters in my Heroes Unlimited game and base some stuff on Final Fantasy.

[drewkitty ~..~]

I have made anime based chars. Mostly NS with their morphus based out of anime. (SDF-1, M. Frontier, A Gundam Girl, a Valkarie w/SAP packs. and one who is the spitting image of Lina Inverse when in it's morphus.)

[SmilingJack]

Oh absolutely!

The vicissitudes of life are often captured in literature and plays and recycled through time

Even romeo and Juliet was derived from the Greek myth: Pyramus and Thisbe

I've drawn a ton of inspiration from games I've played and TV shows inclusive of

Ronin Warriors
The Legend of Zelda
Quest For Glory Series
King's Quest
Greek Mythology
The Odyssey
The Iliad
Metamorphoses
A Song of Ice and Fire / Game Of Thrones
Conan The Barbarian / Conan The Destroyer


Take a element and blend it your own creative construct

Thanks to all these great pieces for inspiration

[Zamion138]

Final fantasy 3 right down to the espers and quick fire summons

[SmilingJack]

Final fantasy 3 right down to the espers and quick fire summons

That's so sick,

Great idea

I've incorporated the limit break a few times in adventures to let players have a super attack

Thanks for reminding me of how much I love final fantasy

[Zamion138]

Final fantasy 3 right down to the espers and quick fire summons

That's so sick,

Great idea

I've incorporated the limit break a few times in adventures to let players have a super attack

Thanks for reminding me of how much I love final fantasy

By the way for any about to. Jump on me...ff3 natc so ff6 fanicom(japan)

[MADMANMIKE]

Never did it. I've always found it more entertaining to try and create something original. My most annoying player back in the day kept trying to create a Highlander, but I wouldn't let that fly.

[flatline]

We played themed games, but the themes were never based on shows or books. They were usually based on a shared goal or on a type of character.

For instance:
-- Temporal Raider's party: The TR was an NPC. All players were either Temporal Wizards, Temporal Warriors, or something similar
-- Primitives Rifted into North America: Made fantasy normals (no magic, no psionics) and rifted them in. Fun, but deadly.
-- Supers Rifted into North America: we tried to ally with the CS, but the CS tried to imprison us. This degenerated into a "kill the CS" game
-- No opposable thumbs: With all the difficulties you'd expect. Heck, finding races that qualified was part of the challenge
-- Build a Better Black Market: we tried to build a competing organization. Campaign eventually got bogged down in logistics and we gave up.
-- Steal Everything!: Goal was to make money as fast as possible. Don't remember what for. Degenerated into a "loot the CS" game.

If you're looking for a change of pace, I totally recommend the "no opposable thumbs" theme. Really!

--flatline

[Alrik Vas]

Final fantasy 3 right down to the espers and quick fire summons

Totally did this too. Magitek armor was pretty awesome. Man, freshman year of high school was a loooong time ago.

[say652]

justice league and x-men type games. and of course starwars also resident evil,return of the living dead(hehehe),teenage mutant ninja turtles(heroes in a half shell TURTLE POWER!), R.A. Salvatore books(awesome check them out),power rangers, and played in a failed Dragonball Z campaign attempt,I am working on a campaign now centering around an interdimensional winemaker using magic to aquire raw materials at a discount price.

[Zamion138]

Final fantasy 3 right down to the espers and quick fire summons

Totally did this too. Magitek armor was pretty awesome. Man, freshman year of high school was a loooong time ago.

Hehehe i think i. Was a sophomore, game did not last long the gm ran it so close to the cartridge game we kind saw what was comming. Also, at first he was making the random mobs to much like a video game and inns dont cure everything in rifts.

[kiralon]

Wicked City would be my favourite bts/n&s mission that i dm'd. I tried ninja scrolls but it didn't work out as well.

[ZorValachan]

After reading Madmanmike's post, I remembered one player who had a 'Highlander' type character. The only other thing I remember is a non PB fantasy game in which I had Ren and Stimpy and the 'magical chocolaty ice cream bar'. One character lost the 'Don't pee on the electric fence' game. Oh, and All the things in Robotech got into my Robotech game..somehow.

[Bill]

I did Wild Talents Naruto once. It went very well. I've also done Wild Talents Age of Apocalypse. I prefer point-based games for stuff like that in general because I can give the players instructions on how to set up the character and let them do most of the work. I'm lazy.

[Marrowlight]

Never did it. I've always found it more entertaining to try and create something original. My most annoying player back in the day kept trying to create a Highlander, but I wouldn't let that fly.

And now I'm reminded of the old Nightspawn/Highlander fanfic I read ages ago.

[Alrik Vas]

Never did it. I've always found it more entertaining to try and create something original. My most annoying player back in the day kept trying to create a Highlander, but I wouldn't let that fly.

And now I'm reminded of the old Nightspawn/Highlander fanfic I read ages ago.

I'm a little frightened now.

[Marrowlight]

I remember it being pretty good, actually, for fanfic. I was also a teenager back then, so,

[pblackcrow]

I have done a game of Mystic China loosely based on the anime Peacock King Spirit Warrior Castle of Illusion. The players love it.

I did a game of Ninjas & Superspies and sent them up against the 108 Dragons in Crying Freeman They actually managed to sabotage the propeller on the Dragons Submarine and than sank it and invade the Dragons island. But they thought that part would be a cake walk. That they majorly goofed up on...It was anything but.

I did a whole PFRPG campaign based loosely on the primes from the cartoon Conan the Adventurer. But the snake men had to loose all of their hit points before they could be sent to the void. And in my games it was 13 towers not pyramids on 12 nexuses that surrounded a super nexus and a 13th tower, with a star metal sculls on top the 12 and a very large star metal archway on the 13th, to free Set on the winter solstice.

I have mixed Relic Hunter with Poltergeist: The Legacy and Friday the 13th: The Series in my BtS games.

[arthurfallz]

I give this advice to GMs I train. "If you're going to steal, steal shamelessly."

But I always format the character to work in the world, rather than shoehorn a process that doesn't belong there. If I want The Highlander to appear in my game, I find a way to make the essential themes of Connor/Duncan MacLeod work in Rifts / HU / whatever. He's immortal, he's scottish, he's old, he fights with a sword. The other details are, imho, superfluous.

To the point. If I wanted Gandalf the Grey to appear in my PF game, I would make him the avatar of a god, practicing a Wizard O.C.C. I wouldn't try to make the Istari, and the Valar and Maiar and somehow put them in the Palladium rules. Likewise, when I had Sauron invade Rifts Earth, he was a Supernatural Intelligence (this was well before CJ's Pantheons of the Megaverse book).

[Hotrod]

How many of you guys based a game on anime/cartoons/TV shows? Which ones do you use? Don't post conversions or anything.

Prince Valiant (the old-school comic strip). Seriously, that creation is a treasure trove of epic medieval adventure. Start with the originals from the late 30s. The art is astounding in quality, especially when you consider that it's always been a newspaper comic strip. The stories are compelling, too.

Seriously, check Prince Valiant out (literally; you can sneak a peek on Amazon, or probably find Volume I in your local library). You won't be disappointed.

[pblackcrow]

Prince Valiant (the old-school comic strip). Seriously, that creation is a treasure trove of epic medieval adventure. Start with the originals from the late 30s. The art is astounding in quality, especially when you consider that it's always been a newspaper comic strip. The stories are compelling, too.

Seriously, check Prince Valiant out (literally; you can sneak a peek on Amazon, or probably find Volume I in your local library). You won't be disappointed.

Yeah, I agree. I have to say, I have actually used stuff from the animated series in my games. Hulu.com has some of them.