Accesibilidad para las áreas
5.1. Habitación accesible Consideraciones GeneralesConsideraciones Generales
The Anime Genres section (Chapter 1: Introduction, page 5) describes some of the more playable anime genres. Here is a quick look at different genres and significant genre elements from the perspective of the game:
• Alien Visitors
Do the characters or antagonists include aliens who are visiting, assisting, or invading our planet? This can be a good way to add people with strange powers or high- tech mecha to a present day campaign. The “aliens” might a l s o c o m e f r o m o t h e r dimensions or underwater, rather than outer space. Alien visitors may just be here to have fun, or they might want to conquer the world. One classic situation has a set of alien bad guys arriving on Earth, pursued by a different set of alien good guys, with the poor humans caught in a power struggle between two different factions.
• Exotic Girlfriend
Do you want a soap opera in which a whole bunch of super powered girls orbit around a single guy? Just pick a few other genres (Alien Visitors, Mecha, etc.) to justify what special abilities the girls have and then come up with a strange reason why their big focus in life would be attracted to a normal guy (who may be a character or NPC) and you have a perpetual motion plot machine as more and more jealous girls appear, bringing with them their own bizarre entanglements and plot baggage.
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• Gun Bunnies
Will the characters blaze away with guns, blasters, or rocket launchers? Gun Bunny anime often features beautiful women with big weapons (hence the name), but male gun bunnies (handsome guys, normally) are just as common. The Gun Bunny genre is often set in recent historical or modern day periods, but can work equally well in the near or far future with cyberpunk or space bounty hunters and secret agents.
• Hero Teams or Magical Girls
Will the characters possess super powers (either paranormal, racial, or technological) and use them to battle evil? Do they have secret identities or cute pets? In hero or magical girl anime there is often a clear duality with the heroes directly opposing a particular evil organization connected to their own origins.
• Heroic Fantasy
Will the characters be a party of fantasy hero archetypes such as brave warriors (with magical weapons), spell-casters, flighty elves, or crusty dwarves? They will face the usual threats such as brigands or trolls, rampaging dragons, and dark lords attempting to get hold of super artifacts whose power threatens the world. Remember that in anime, heroic fantasy often crosses over with mecha or science fiction.
• Hot Rods
Are car chases, motorcycles, souped-up engines, and drag races a big part of the game? This variation of mecha story is often combined with Gun Bunny anime, but it just as often involves relatively non-violent situations (racing, sports competition, traffic patrol, high school biker gangs).
• Idols or Sports
Are the characters up-and-coming stars? They could be anything from pop music idol singers to Formula One racing drivers to pro wrestlers. They’ll compete with rival stars, their own lack of confidence or overconfidence, and temptation from people who want to exploit them. This sort of campaign is often structured with a series of “semi-final” competitions or events that build to a big climax, and thus makes a good mini- campaign.
• Interdimensional Exiles
Are the characters people from the modern world who have become stranded somewhere else? The characters may have a few items of present-day technology that are like Items of Power to the natives, or they could have gained appropriate paranormal powers (see Fantasy) or talent as a mecha pilot (see Mecha). The “other side” may have its own surprises: monsters, magic, or weird technology. A group of characters in such a campaign may include characters that come from both worlds.
• Martial Arts
Do the characters know powerful martial arts techniques, either realistic (like karate or kendo) or over-the- top (like secret ninjitsu or ki-powered fireballs)? The campaign may feature action-adventure situations or be structured more like the idols genre with emphasis on teamwork and non-violent competitions.
• Mecha
Will the game prominently feature giant robots, fighter planes, androids, cyborgs, or other mecha? Do the players have a secret base or mobile battle fortress? Appropriate stereotypes include the young angst-ridden rookie with great innate ability, the flamboyant show-off who loves fighting, the cool warrior with a mysterious past, the ordinary guy caught in the conflict, and the battle-hardened, somewhat cynical veteran. A mecha squad must put aside their rivalries, master their machines, and figure out a way to defeat their opponents, which can be tricky if they accidentally fall in love with them first or discover the Big War was all a mistake accidentally started by their own side.
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• Period Piece
Is the game set in some historical period (like Samurai Japan or Pre- Revolutionary France) where the characters can wear nifty costumes and rub shoulders with famous historical figures?
• Pet Monster
Are the characters cute kids with pet monsters, which they can train to beat up other people’s pet monsters or anyone else who gets in their way?
• Science Fiction
Do the characters use or encounter technology more advanced than the present day such as robots or star drives, or meet alien races or have adventures on strange new worlds? See Alien Visitors, Mecha, and Space Opera.
• School Days
Do the characters get to dress up in school uniforms, attend classes, worry about who is dating whom, and try to avoid being late for school? Many other genres feature teenage heroes who spend some time in school between adventures.
• Space Opera
Do the characters travel around in a spaceship and visit strange new worlds on a regular basis? Space patrol, space pirate, bounty hunter, explorer, trouble-shooter-for- hire, and galactic war scenarios are all possible.
• Supernatural
Do the characters battle monsters, ghosts, demons, and other scary entities who exist in the shadows? Or are they monsters themselves?
Many anime series combine multiple elements together, and there is no reason why a role-playing game should not do so. For example, mix mecha, idols, and school: the characters are stars of the powered armour wrestling circuit, but they still have to go to classes.
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