What anime and manga have influenced your gaming experience.

[Skade]

Ninja Scroll has really affected the way I describe combat, and the look of anime does deeply color my design of characters and equipment.

There have not been any other real influences on my d20 games by anime, though I do love it. Exalted is of course another matter.

Now, having seen some Witch Hunter Robin, I would so love to run a modern game with that sort of feel

 

[Benben]

I've stolen from Slayers, Vampire Princess Miyu, but the #1 source I've been influenced by is Fushigi Yuugi (Mysterious Play).

 

[s/LaSH]

In terms of over-the-top action, speed, ridiculous amounts of violence etc, you betcha. It may be unrealistic to split someone down the middle with a scythe, but it looks cool and hey, realism is for those sessions where you're not underwater hunting vampires.

Anime has influenced my Forgotten Realms campaign. For example:

Alustriel goes through a transformation sequence into a highly-stylized schoolgirl outfit before she begins a fight.

Drizzt is a nerdy teenage boy who is inexplicably surrounded by adoring women.

Elminster is a 50-foot-tall bipedal robot.

The Simbul is a cat-girl.

Evard's black tentacles is the #1 fear among females of the Relams.

Wooden and bamboo swords do just as much damage as steel ones.

I make the male PCs roll fortitude saves against nosebleeds when they see a nymph or succubus.

Called shots: Whenever the player performs an action in combat, his character shouts out what he's doing in-game. Such as the mage shouting "Fireball!" and then throwing a fireball, or the fighter shouting "Five-foot step followed by full-attack while employing my dodge feat against Ogre #2!"

The more delicate and effeminate a man is, the more lethal he is in combat. Level 20 barbarians are as androgynous as Haldir from the Lord of the Rings movies.

Crass and uncultured as it may be, I'd just like to ROTFLMAO.

Especially Elminster.

Although, having seen something like two panels of Jae Lee's Transformers - GI Joe crossover comic, I'll never think of giant robots in the same way again... the comment 'look like it could rip tanks in half' is certainly apt.

 

[JEL]

I'd have to say that not a lot of my anime fandom has carried over into my gaming. Other than a short lived attempt at a game set in the Bebop universe, the only thing anime I've wanted to try is an adventure based on the plot in Weathering Contenent. Now that that WC has been relased in the US and is no longer so obscure that I don't have to worry about players never having seen it, I've pretty much tossed the idea.

I'll agree with Hong that Lodoss wasn't that great. It's actually based on some novels, which were the write-ups of a group's adventures in a Japanese D&D game. In other words, it's gamer fiction.

 

[frankthedm]

I'm inspired by just about anything with tentacles.

Here ya go...

Lodoss war beserkers influence my world's barbarians. I even have those little berserker spirits trying to have them go full psychopaths.

 

[Stormfalcon]

Anime has influenced my Forgotten Realms campaign. For example:

Alustriel goes through a transformation sequence into a highly-stylized schoolgirl outfit before she begins a fight.

Drizzt is a nerdy teenage boy who is inexplicably surrounded by adoring women.

Elminster is a 50-foot-tall bipedal robot.

The Simbul is a cat-girl.

Evard's black tentacles is the #1 fear among females of the Relams.

Wooden and bamboo swords do just as much damage as steel ones.

I make the male PCs roll fortitude saves against nosebleeds when they see a nymph or succubus.

Called shots: Whenever the player performs an action in combat, his character shouts out what he's doing in-game. Such as the mage shouting "Fireball!" and then throwing a fireball, or the fighter shouting "Five-foot step followed by full-attack while employing my dodge feat against Ogre #2!"

The more delicate and effeminate a man is, the more lethal he is in combat. Level 20 barbarians are as androgynous as Haldir from the Lord of the Rings movies.

(Note, do not take any part of this post seriously. Dark Jezter just likes to joke about the cliches that are present in so many animes)

If you think that's bad enough, try the combination of FR, BESM d20, the upcoming Slayers d20, and possibly d20 Mecha in the hands of a truly evil DM. I can imagine Shadowdale cratered thanks to some hotheaded Harpers confronting a short, yet ravenous redheaded female sorceress and her band of merry nation-wreckers. That's not to mention the diabetes rate in Faerun drastically rising thanks to the influx of bands of too-cute-for-their-own-good schoolgirl magic-users, the clerics of Gond losing their monopoly on smokepowder thanks to the invading Gun Bunnies, Oghma having a nervous breakdown thanks to crackpot inventors and their android maids raising the technological level of Faerun astronomically, and Drizzt forced into hiding due to a pack of schoolgirls who, at various times, either harbor huge crushes on him or are lauching him into the stratosphere with their bare fists due to some misunderstanding.

Ah, what fun one could have with portals gone awry, I tell ya...

 

[Oni]

If you think that's bad enough, try the combination of FR, BESM d20, the upcoming Slayers d20, and possibly d20 Mecha in the hands of a truly evil DM. I can imagine Shadowdale cratered thanks to some hotheaded Harpers confronting a short, yet ravenous redheaded female sorceress and her band of merry nation-wreckers. That's not to mention the diabetes rate in Faerun drastically rising thanks to the influx of bands of too-cute-for-their-own-good schoolgirl magic-users, the clerics of Gond losing their monopoly on smokepowder thanks to the invading Gun Bunnies, Oghma having a nervous breakdown thanks to crackpot inventors and their android maids raising the technological level of Faerun astronomically, and Drizzt forced into hiding due to a pack of schoolgirls who, at various times, either harbor huge crushes on him or are lauching him into the stratosphere with their bare fists due to some misunderstanding.

Ah, what fun one could have with portals gone awry, I tell ya...

You know, that actually sounds kinda fun....

 

[Stormrunner]

Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind. I mean, c'mon, it's got giant insects, poison fungi forests, ceramic swords, wood-and-fabric aircraft, lost technology of the ancients, psionics, and lots and lots of Men With Really Big Mustaches. What more do you want?

 

[Gnarlo]

Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind. I mean, c'mon, it's got giant insects, poison fungi forests, ceramic swords, wood-and-fabric aircraft, lost technology of the ancients, psionics, and lots and lots of Men With Really Big Mustaches. What more do you want?

And let's not forget some really great quotes: "Let's teach them a lesson in crowd control; drop a bomb on them."

 

[Leopold]

pokemon. Because some guy converted a bunch of critters and they work.