Scurvy_Platypus
Explorer
tl;dr Your best approach, you you choose to go down this path, is to work from the Anime 5e set of rules. It's the "newest" overall and is explicitly geared towards 5e, whereas BESM and Tri-Stat are intended to be generic/supers rules systems. So they might be able to provide a bit of additional context but you'll want Anime 5e as the main source.Thanks! Hadn’t heard of BESM nor Anime 5e either. Well… I’ve got my work cut out for me
Also, pay attention to spells. You may or may not be aware, but in theory the various abilities of classes/monsters are partially CR-costed by the designers of 5e in relation to spells. So while Anime 5e will give you basic costs for a lot of things, some more complicated things you might be able to get at by costing as a spell. But at this point, we're starting to get pretty down in the weeds.
I don't think you need more than the base book but if you did, it'd probably only be the "Monstrum Libri", their name for the Bestiary. You've got a choice of creature cards, or a book. I'd go with whatever is cheaper, since the main point you'd be looking for is monstrous abilities and how they're framed/costed.
Hmmm... well, the BESM system has been around for like 30 years; it's on its 4th edition right now. Tri-Stat is a derivative of that system and has been through a number of different editions, depending on the particular game it gets used for. I think BESM 4e came out in 2019 or thereabouts.
Anime 5e is related more to BESM than Tri-Stat and I think it came out around 2021 as well. It actually links back to BESMd20, which itself was a mid-point between BESM 2e and BESM 3e. Opinions on BESMd20 varied, in part because of a reaction against d20 (we're talking like... 2009 or thereabouts) in general and in part because of people assuming "point buy" meant "everything is perfectly balanced in relation to everything else" and the subsequent arguments that would arise from that false premise.
And then there was the issue of the designer Mark MacKinnon; there's a somewhat messy backstory about his original company (Guardians of Order) going bankrupt, why it did, and whether or not he ripped off people (failed to pay them for their work but kept selling products). While he was gone for a while, he started up a new company (Dyskami Publishing) which is responsible for BESM 4e and Anime 5e both.
Anime 5e is related more to BESM than Tri-Stat and I think it came out around 2021 as well. It actually links back to BESMd20, which itself was a mid-point between BESM 2e and BESM 3e. Opinions on BESMd20 varied, in part because of a reaction against d20 (we're talking like... 2009 or thereabouts) in general and in part because of people assuming "point buy" meant "everything is perfectly balanced in relation to everything else" and the subsequent arguments that would arise from that false premise.
And then there was the issue of the designer Mark MacKinnon; there's a somewhat messy backstory about his original company (Guardians of Order) going bankrupt, why it did, and whether or not he ripped off people (failed to pay them for their work but kept selling products). While he was gone for a while, he started up a new company (Dyskami Publishing) which is responsible for BESM 4e and Anime 5e both.
