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It would look like whatever anime inspired it and play like whatever RPG mechanics it decides to use. Right now you could make any RPG you feel like be "anime-inspired" if you wanted to. Like pretty much all the big successful RPGs, you should pick a set of inspirations that you are very...

Video games, anime/manga and cartoons are my primary inspirations and my mind's eye still sees stuff as video games or anime/manga whenever I play anything. I regularly sift around danbooru and 4chan for images that might make my head click, and have huge folders (and a pretty sizable number of...

Dual-Wielding Drow guy comin' right up sir. Though I guess in this case he'd have to dual-wield wands.

Anime and video games started me into the idea of a fictional world working under its own conceits and how entertaining it can be to explore it. I played games like the SNES final fantasy games, and watched slayers, evangelion, saber marionnete (and j to x), and other animes I can hardly...

I've been looking for any RPG products that have maps of cities, villages or towns for fantasy games. I tried mapping my own stuff but I'm never really satisfied with what I can do, so I thought it'd be nice to be able to buy a map and just plop it down for the PCs so they can see which street...

I know, I was speaking of my own stuff, and of some of the stuff in this thread. Part of the reason you want sacred things to be sacred is to make it a bit more complex to for the player deal with them – so they don't simply roll initiative and slaughter them like any other critter, they have to...

The conception of animism I use for my own setting is a bit weirder, in that the Spirit World and the Mortal World are the same. In fact one could say the mortals all live in the Spirit World, really. There are noticeable differences between what is a Transcendental Being (scholarly in-universe...

I find roleplaying spirits to be really fun and rewarding myself. For some of the spirits in my games I like to take inspiration from medieval christian drama, stuff like in "Everyman" and "Wisdom." I took a course on medieval religious drama and I was charmed by the personified characters of...

The setting I run most of my fantasy games has that particular metaphysical configuration, except I decided there would be spirits for concepts and objects as well as for places and peoples. Part of it is I like personifications as quick and entertaining NPCs, so I wanted spirits of melancholy...

I don't mind the layout of the Essentials classes, though I think it's a waste of space. I had no trouble going to the table in the PHB1 to look at where every single class got its stuff. I can see using it for books for newbies, but I'd hope it doesn't infect every other release. I found stuff...

I don't mind it at all! Anyone can feel free to suggest some.

I don't really care for the novels because I don't have any trouble coming up with stories. What I want are ideas for dungeons, urban settings, creepy forests, with layouts and such that can be adapted to play. I play generic systems like GURPS (and am working on my own homebrew fantasy RPG...

I ate a ghost pepper once, out of foolish curiosity. If I was a cat, I'd probably be dead, but thankfully I'm a human. So instead I just writhed on the ground feeling like I'd been chewing a bagfull of hot nails. The only curiosity I have left is whether I took 3d6 fire or 3d6 acid damage.

It's a bit more nebulous in D&D 3.5, but the reason certain spells are the level they are is because of the types of enemies and the kinds of adventures that happen at those levels. You don't want weather control and raise dead and overland flight at level 1, when PCs are supposed to be fragile...

I've been trying to find modules to read (not really to play or GM) for ideas, as I've had some success before with 3e/3.5 modules (I find it hard to read the old gygaxian AD&D modules, as I'm too used to a more modern layout). I'm looking for modules which either have big and complex dungeons...

My setting has magic firearms (I'm actually trying to write an article on my setting blog about this that I hope to post soon) (EDIT: It's here now). However, most people in the setting who are good melee fighters learn crazy wuxia martial arts stunts, so the gun hasn't completely outmoded the...

I use the username "Meek" wherever I subscribe to a forum where I don't intend to actually post much. In RPG forums I tended to get into flame wars whenever I post so I just stopped posting. I take up the handle Meek whenever I intend to lurk in a forum. My normal handle, Wyatt Salazar, was my...

I operate (this sounds much more legitimate than it really is) The Spirits of Eden, a blog that used to be about D&D 4e and is now about a bunch of stuff including D&D 4e, but primarily about my homebrew campaign setting based loosely on eastern fantasy and animism. It also contains a bunch of...

I would rather modules be laid out as they will be played. Lately WOTC has been doing stuff where they make one book about the story, lore, fluff, etc, and then one other separate book with all the fights and stats, removed from the story and such. I'd rather, if the module is going to be a...

For Mac OS X, Waveboard is a pretty fast Wave client, much better (in my experience) than running it on Safari or Firefox. Google Chrome also runs Wave better (again in my experience) than other web browsers, in Windows 7 and in Mac OS X.