But what if I LIKE Anime/Video-game tropes in my D&D?

[Xethreau]

I love anime, and I love JRPGs, like Fire Emblem and Golden Sun and Final Fantasy to name a few, but my love for D&D is on a different level. However, D&D 3e seemed to have a lot of cobwebs on it, if you understand my meaning, and was never as fast and shiny as my JRPG collection, nor as innovate or creative as some of the JRPG fantasy concepts.

4e changes that. I do not see anime when I listen to fourth edition, or at least on the whole I do not, but I DO love what I see. Athletics and movement are the only things that I have seen that could possibly be considered "anime-esque," and I am ok with that. If my rogue does a crazy backflip off the wall, and delivers a sneak attack from above, is that so bad? I think not. If the rogue can use an ability that makes him move so fast he is mechanically considered to be teleporting, is that such a bad thing? Not to me. (Blue, from GamerRadioZero's Podcast talked about her rogue who could do that)

D&D with a sellect few Japanese rethought fantasy concepts is fine with me, even antropromorphic cat people (to an extent). However, I do not see chibi elves, races with monkey tails, or robot dinosaurs being transformed into one giant robot, or anything along those lines. D&D reamians fantasy, and as it has done before, it obtains elements from the fantasy genre all arround us, including videogames and anime. And that's ok with me!

EDIT:
It should be noted that I absolutely hate all but two Led Zeppline songs, but really only like 2 DragonForce songs. I'm really more of a Nightwish sort of guy (NOT their 2006 album, which was made of fail). Slow songs are just things I cannot pay attention to, but music that is fast but shallow feels empty. Hopefuly, if 4e were a band, it would be fast paced, or at least something bearable, but deep in sound, feel, heart, and meaning,

 

[Badkarmaboy]

What's a chibi elf?

 

[Xethreau]

What's a chibi elf?

Example
http://art.paradoxx.dk/2003/chibi.jpg

Definition of chibi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibi

Also see "super deformed"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_deformed

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

What's the deal with sticking bat wings on people's heads about?
EDIT: Cause I've noticed that a lot and it doesn't seem to follow any pattern or limitation I can discern. They're not all demons, some are cat-girls, or elves, others are male. So it must be some other symbolic element I don't get.

 

[Xethreau]

What's the deal with sticking bat wings on people's heads about?

Bat wings are the new devil horns?

 

[Cadfan]

I wouldn't mind some more anime influence.

I don't see any anime influence in 4e. Every time someone tries to explain to me that its there, and just ends up waving their hands about ineffectually and ranting about dem kids dese days and der animes, I become more and more convinced that seeing anime in 4e is more indicative of your own personal prejudice than anything else.

I also don't see video game influence. To be honest, I don't even know what video game influence would look like. I'm sorry, but a name or two that sort of resembles a name from some game somewhere doesn't count.

I'd like to see some anime influence, but I'm not that hopeful. For me, what the game would need to handle some genuine anime influenced characters would be 1) a viable unarmored defender that could function with a katana, 2) a magical girl class (warlock does this in 3e, actually... its a dyed in the wool magical girl class, but it looks like it won't be in 4e), and 3) an easy way for martial characters to get one or two spells.

I suspect we'll get the third, but not the first or the second.

 

[The Little Raven]

What's the deal with sticking bat wings on people's heads about?

I'm pretty sure that's just a chibi drawing of a particular character, Morrigan Aensland, from the Darkstalkers series. She's a succubus, and that's how they portray them in that series.

 

[Remathilis]

Wow. I just have to say that I'm shocked at how much more like Remathillis I am in age/background/opinion than I had previously thought.

You know what they say about great minds...

...actually, be afraid. be very afraid.

 

[TwinBahamut]

I love anime and videogames. I would like to see these things have more of an influence on D&D. However, I don't think I have really seen such an influence on 4E D&D. I'm not really sure what is influencing 4E D&D, actually...

I don't like the idea that if I want an game influenced by anime, I should stick to Exalted or BESM and leave D&D alone. I hate Exalted and BESM, and D&D is a great game and a great system. What BESM and Exalted do is interesting, but it does not reflect the part of anime that I like and want to see in D&D.

 

[WayneLigon]

For many years, I've always seen spell effects and such with a very anime-like tone. If I'd been able to illustrate the last couple years of my 1E games and the 2E games I ran, you wouldn't have been able to tell it apart from an anime series. Huge lightshow special effects, weird pets, warriors in outsized armor or virtually none, etc. Today, it's even more pronounced.

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