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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 3372012" data-attributes="member: 9213">Wow. First I want to start by saying for a board for D&D players and RPGers who pride themselves on being able to use thier imaginations to have fun, I've seen some pretty ignorant and specataularly narrowminded comments here. Now to address the question that the OP posted: I think that there are some feats and character types influenced by anime but not the game as a whole. How ever what alot of people on this board seem to forget or ignore is that D20 is really a toolset. A toolset such a that if a DM wanted to run an anime influenced game he/she could do so and most importantly I think if the players are influenced by anime the rules allow them to play characters remincent of Jubei, Guts or Spike Speigel. I see alot of people not just in this thread implying that there is a way, or not a way to play D&D. Those people are narrow minded and just wrong. The way to play D&D is whatever way you and your DM / Players decide to play when you sit at THAT PARTICULAR TABLE with them. There's also the case of visualization. I like the action visuals and direction of alot of anime shows. What I mean is I like how the action is depicted from Hieh's Black Dragon Wave attack from Yu Yu Hakusho, to the final fight between Jubei and Genma in the hull of a burning sinking ship at the conclusion of Jubei Ninpucho. Those action sequences inspire ideas and pacing which it seems alot of you seem to be saying don't belong in D&D, but to me I make the translation in action from anime to a D&D game very easily. Also I get inspiration from interesting character types, Paptimus Sirocco a character from Kido Senshi Zeta Gundam may have been a Newtype mecha pilot and arms dealer, but his scheming and mannerisms inspired me to create a Lawful Evil mage who manipulated the PC's into helping him take over the local mages guild and place his allies in charge of the Thieves guild, much to my PC's chagrin. I don't see why drawing inspiration from Naruto, One Piece or Ghost in the Shell:SAC is any less valid than drawing inspiration from George R. R. Martin, JRR Tolkien, or Robert E. Howard. It's pretty elitist. Anyway, anime has influenced D&D as much as it's influenced some of the people who watch anime and play D&D.</blockquote>

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