The Decompartmentalizer

@TresFoyle

grass fed / brain poisoned

she/her

not for children.

The Decompartmentalizer @TresFoyle3/31/2024, 5:37 AM

Stepnix @stepnix

Stepnix @stepnix3/31/2024, 2:08 AM

doing some mahou game research

i have found three (3) pre-Madoka magical girl games. one of them is a Sailor Moon licensed game from the BESM people. one of them is a Precure fangame currently unavailable in english, and one of them is Princess: The Hopeful. and apparently that one is like four games now but that's a sidetrack.

This does help a few things make more sense I guess. Madoka gets game design brains sparking, there's virtually no other mahou variants to compete with, so dark mahou gets the most exploration and design tech.

you are not immune to Madoka

#magical girl #TTRPG

Stepnix @stepnix3/31/2024, 2:11 AM

Was there seriously ten years of no magical girl TTRPGs

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Mannie @manwad3/31/2024, 2:16 AM

The Great Void

Stepnix @stepnix3/31/2024, 2:18 AM

tell me I'm missing a FATE setting or something. i can't believe this

Mannie @manwad3/31/2024, 2:21 AM

what's the time frame of The Great Void?

Stepnix @stepnix3/31/2024, 2:23 AM

1998: Sailor Moon Role-playing Game and Activity Book is published
2009: RPGnet thread that would become Princess: The Hopeful is posted

Mara @amaranth-witch3/31/2024, 2:33 AM

1998 - 2008: Magical Girl media was relegated to the USA cultural perception of "this is for littol girls, whomst do not play roleplaying games, and so why would anyone be interested in baby settings for littol girls instead of SERIOUS anime stuff, lmao, I guess you could hack it using BESM or D&D or something".

I'm not saying that's all there was to it, but as a veteran of anime conventions and professional RPG writing during that period, I'll eat my hat if that wasn't a primary contributor.

Added onto that, it wasn't until about 2015 that "indie RPGs" started getting the "weight" that they're enjoying now.

Stepnix @stepnix3/31/2024, 2:41 AM

😔
adding to the "fix it with time travel" list