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Michael Hopcroft
May 17th, '06, 03:53 AM
I'm thinking of starting up a game on Hero Central, hoping it will go better than my last one. I'm trying to decide what to run and was thinking I would ask for advice on the question.

Here are some of the campaigns I'm thinking of running:

Azumanga Daioh in TIIIIME: what the infamous fanfic series Azumanga Daioh IN SPAAAACE! (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2132104/1/) did for Star Wars, this campaign will do for Doctor Who. The premise: the Doctor has found a leftover TARDIS and dropped it off at a certain Japanese high school, just where the girls of Yukari-sensei's class could be expected to find it. Hilarity ensues. This would be a "modeling" campaign, where you will be asked to model a character from the series as closely as possible without the point count especially mattering. Little rolling for the most part, and lots of role-playing and patented azuma wackiness.

Martian Successor Nadeisco: TNG: The earth/Jupiter alliance has had thirty years of peace, secure in the knowledge that general and Speciifc Relativity are going to prevent outside interference with the new solar system they are building. Boy, were they wrong. sol's only hope is the new NERGAL Space Battleship Nadesico-Q, and what better suckers... er, candidates could there be to lead its brave new mission than the descendants and realtives of the original crew of misfits. Tragical comedy, comical tragedy, epic battles, bizarre romance and, naturally more Gekiganger 3! This one would offer more freedom in character design, but would be somewhat more complciated to run and play (mainly becase there would be more combat, though it will still be RP heavy.)

Or perhaps something else entirely that you guys think i would be a halfway-decent GM for....

Sketchpad
May 17th, '06, 04:14 AM
How about an A-Ko game? ;)

Ranxerox
May 18th, '06, 08:02 AM
Unless the anime in question is one that a fair sample of it can be rented at Blockbuster or Hollywood Video, it is a bit awkward to use it as a campaign source. Most of your potential players will have never seen the source material and will not be able to do so without spending big bucks. They will spend the entire campaign wondering during each NPC encounter whether this is someone from the anime and what they are missing out on by never having seen it.

That is why I voted for the non-anime based campaign. This way all the players get to start off on equal footing. Alternately, you could base your on a fairly obscure anime, change the names, and not tell anyone what you were using as your inspirations. In other words, you could steal an idea but not do it in a way that divides your players into haves and have nots.