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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AFGNCAAP" data-source="post: 1141572" data-attributes="member: 871">Oddly enough, though I do enjoy watching some anime, very little of it actually infleunces my games.D&D-wise, the only anime that could be said to affect my games is Record of Lodoss War (the original one, & not any of the later versions).  However, I think it's because it has a strong "Basic" D&D feel to it (obviously).Even still, the closest that this anime had as an influence on tabletop RPGs is that I made an NPC group that mirrors the Rules Cyclopedia-style D&D classes.  And, for a friend's campaign, I made up a paladin character designed a bit after Parn from RoLW--a naive young human warrior, with short borwn hair, and wielding a bastard sword (then again, most of the "standard" swords in RoLW were depicted as bastard swords--light enough to be 1-handed, but with a long enough handle to be used 2-handed).Otherwise, there's very little anime influence on my games.  Cartoons from the days of my youth (such as He-Man & the Masters of the Universe, Thundercats, and, of course, Dungeons & Dragons) have a bit more impact on my games than anime/manga.</blockquote>