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Gingervitis said:
So I’m looking for a good magical girl tabletop system. This is what I was suggested so far. Are there any more good suggestions Im missing?
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Here's some more suggestions:
Kamigakari - weeb system well suited to monster-of-the-week format, might have to reflavor some of the classes
Witch Quest - cute system where you can play as a witch or cat, skills include stuff like cooking, dancing, wind reading, has neat broomstick flying skills which can be reflavored and a tarot card system
I've only glanced over the rulebook for the second, but it heavily leans on more of the cute SoL aspects. Both have official translations so you won't have to deal with the jank of fan translated rulebooks.

Also I'm looking for some interesting systems to read through if anyone has any they want to shill. I'm in quarantine until I get my coof test back next week and work's been pretty slow.
 
Waifuwars said:
Here's some more suggestions:
Kamigakari - weeb system well suited to monster-of-the-week format, might have to reflavor some of the classes
Witch Quest - cute system where you can play as a witch or cat, skills include stuff like cooking, dancing, wind reading, has neat broomstick flying skills which can be reflavored and a tarot card system
I've only glanced over the rulebook for the second, but it heavily leans on more of the cute SoL aspects. Both have official translations so you won't have to deal with the jank of fan translated rulebooks.

Also I'm looking for some interesting systems to read through if anyone has any they want to shill. I'm in quarantine until I get my coof test back next week and work's been pretty slow.
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As cute as the latter sounds (sounds good for a brief campaign in between serious campaigns), I was picturing less Kiki’s Delivery Service and more Sailor Moon.
 
I had an interesting BESM game where my not-very-magical girl was suplexing giant monsters three times her size. It could probably work out for you. No, I don't know how the physics of that work, but its anime.
 
Snekposter said:
I had an interesting BESM game where my not-very-magical girl was suplexing giant monsters three times her size. It could probably work out for you. No, I don't know how the physics of that work, but its anime.
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Which edition would you recommend?
 
I don't know. I only did the one game and it didn't last very long because one of the other players is happier complaining about things being anime instead of being happy playing an anime RPG. It was a perennial issue with the guy in other stuff too.
 
Any supers game can run a magical girl game pretty well. M&M 2nd Edition has a Manga book. Kamigakari God Hunters is more of a Manhua/ Manhwa than a Manga setting, but it'll be perfect for a magical girl setting. Pathfinder has a magical girl archtype for I believe the Magus. Scion could also pull it off.
 
Waifuwars said:
Also I'm looking for some interesting systems to read through if anyone has any they want to shill. I'm in quarantine until I get my coof test back next week and work's been pretty slow.
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Some stuff I've found while doing some organization

Cyberpunk
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Chernobyl Mon Amour A Roleplaying Game About Love and Radioactivity
Deviant The Renegades
Glitch
Vampire The Classical Age 20th Anniversary

Science Fiction
Blue Planet
Orbital 2100
Those Dark Places Industrial Science Fiction Roleplaying

Fantasy
Aspects of Fantasy
Aquelarre - Brevarium
D20 Go
Grim Hollow - Campaign Guide
Lex Arcana
Nobilis
Prince Valiant
Righteous Blood Ruthless Blades Wuxia Roleplaying

Other
Building Monsters
The Monsters Know What They’re Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters
 
Anonymus Fluhre said:
Some stuff I've found while doing some organization

Cyberpunk
Carbon 2185
Identeco

Modern
Chernobyl Mon Amour A Roleplaying Game About Love and Radioactivity
Deviant The Renegades
Glitch
Vampire The Classical Age 20th Anniversary

Science Fiction
Blue Planet
Orbital 2100
Those Dark Places Industrial Science Fiction Roleplaying

Fantasy
Aspects of Fantasy
Aquelarre - Brevarium
D20 Go
Grim Hollow - Campaign Guide
Lex Arcana
Nobilis
Prince Valiant
Righteous Blood Ruthless Blades Wuxia Roleplaying

Other
Building Monsters
The Monsters Know What They’re Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters
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Deviant came out already?
 
WinchesterPremium said:
Deviant came out already?
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Yeah, I have it.

Edit: Is Deviant Twitter the game? Only on page 34 and there's already two cripple characters and all of this talk of conspiracies. I'm starting to expect some QAnon characters later on.
 
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Gingervitis said:
So I’m looking for a good magical girl tabletop system. This is what I was suggested so far. Are there any more good suggestions Im missing?
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I don't have any magical girl suggestions, but I can help you with Savage Worlds.

I've only played the most recent edition, but from what I've seen, it hasn't changed much? The main differences seems to be default skills and some minor rules revisions. It's generally ease to convert old stat blocks on the fly. Eg, "Climbing", "Swimming", and "Throwing" were merged into one "Athletics" skill. And having played the game, I can see some obvious other merges if they make a new edition.

"Electronics" and "Hacking" are redundant so I merge them together. I also merge Science and Weird Science since you need an Edge to use Weird Science anyway, and what kind of mad scientist wouldn't know the basics of physics? I'm also lax with Edge requirements since some of them are dumb, like needing to be strong or ugly to be intimidating.

There is a super powers expansion that might be useful if you're making magical girls. I used it to make some evil supernatural powers for a horror game. You can use the default magic system, but I find that lacking.
 
Gingervitis said:
So I’m looking for a good magical girl tabletop system. This is what I was suggested so far. Are there any more good suggestions Im missing?
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I'm playing in a magical girl campaign using HERO 6e right now and it works really well with the usual HERO caveats (though they apply to Mutants and Masterminds too): you have to figure out what kind of balancing suits your game, some things are banned (not just for being too powerful, but for being far too time consuming as well), etc. Pretty much the same thing you'd expect in any system with freeform power creation.

Pretty much any superhero system should work for magical girls with some reskinning, since magical girls are superheroes with specific mood and aesthetics. Other than what you have listed I remember Magical Burst (heavily Madoka influenced, from my experience it's a little shallow both in and out of combat), Thirsty Sword Lesbians (see this thread, not recommended), Glitter Hearts (an extremely obnoxious western take on the genre and it's PbTA as well). There's Stellar Knights, but it's in Japanese only and it has really huge issues (one of them being that half of the game is supposed to be non-combat, but there's zero rules for doing stuff outside combat). The unoffical RWBY RPG could be fairly easily reskinned and it's pretty solid balance between depth and ease of use. Another potential reskin could be Exalted vs World of Darkness, but WoD wouldn't really fit the mood of the genre.

Most western takes on the genre are far too rules-light in my experience. The combat is far too shallow and the noncombat rules aren't better. Magical girls game needs both, since tension between normal life and magical life is an important theme in the genre.
 
Adamska said:
They didn't even use the actual generation the manchildren from years ago love; they used the generation they apparently hated.

Speaking of out of touch, here's the take on the combat wheelchair that was talked about a while back:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=v4piRgS2_1E
It gets pretty dumb; why even have the disabled person when you can just use the mind link to flank with a bunch of wheelchairs?
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Speaking of wheelchairs.

First official publushed wheelchair accessible dungeon.

Why?

The writer is stunning and brave.
 
Fictional Character said:
WoD wouldn't really fit the mood of the genre.
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WoD is really up to the GM. My one Vampire game got hilariously anime-themed. Turns out the mother of all kitsune is a total ditz with no financial management skills, and the shoulder-mounted railgun the party's magical girl looted from the Arkay Mansion expy as she fled aren't quite consensus-breaking because the GM says so. Of course, physics still applies since the consensus isn't that broken, so the party's magical girl had to spend some of her kinfolk Gnosis to dump the recoil into the spirit realm when she fired... Before you point out how broken that is and totally not Vampire but some weird crossover, yes to the latter, and no to the former since my Caitiff didn't have the social penalties and was the hilariously broken Potence/Fortitude/Celerity combo, and had enough HP and saving capability to take multiple magazines of 5.45 to the chest and walk away, despite having a negative torso:hole ratio. Oh, and the GM also gave us the option to just go all the way with some of the fantasy shit, so some funky magic wave swept the whole planet and turned a bunch of people into the various Shadowrun metatypes... and nekomimi, because the GM has an admitted fondness for them.

Also, fuck you, grimdark WoD is perfect for something like Madoka where there's no happy endings, and fuck you for even mentioning that word because I am almost certainly going to cry manly tears in bed as I try to sleep despite the agonizing pain where my heart used to be.
 
Reminder: Storyteller was also used as the basis for Street Fighter and Exalted. You can 100% do Magical Girls with it, and you don't even have to be grimdark about it.
 
Anonymus Fluhre said:
Yeah, I have it.

Edit: Is Deviant Twitter the game? Only on page 34 and there's already two cripple characters and all of this talk of conspiracies. I'm starting to expect some QAnon characters later on.
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Its a Whitewolf game so basically.

At least in theory. Its one I wanted to check out eventually but haven't actually read yet :V
 
Corn Flakes said:
Reminder: Storyteller was also used as the basis for Street Fighter and Exalted. You can 100% do Magical Girls with it, and you don't even have to be grimdark about it.
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Hey, I did play a cheerful magical girl Abyssal that kept ignoring she was an abomination through sheer willpower in Exalted vs World of Darkness and it was a lot of fun, even though I was constantly cursed for refusing to stop using my old name. After a certain point, being constantly surrounded by flocks of crows, constant dramatic cold wind, cracking mirrors and randomly bleeding mundane objects turns into lighthearted comedy. And it encouraged active roleplaying, since the constant curse nightmares made recovering WP through sleep difficult.

Princess the Hopeful is Storyteller, iirc, and it's probably less work to tinker with it to use the 20th Anniversary OWoD basic mechanics that it'd be to reskin any other WoD game.
 
My fighter failed an insight check (when trying to work out why another PC was quiet and distant) with a fumble and since he's such an overly self assured character my DM had him suffer an existential crisis where for just a fraction of a second he realised he was a fictional character being controlled by me. In revenge I've started playing him as a loony conspiracy theorist who's trying to convince the party they're all pawns in a game. Like he's a shit Neo in a medieval Matrix.
 
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