Slayers

The Slayers is an animu about a sorceress and her adventuring party of epic level Mary-sues. The Slayers traces it roots back to the 80's with some short stories where rumors hold were based on some Japanese dude's AD&D games (though in all likelihood it was Sword World RPG a weeaboo ripoff of AD&D with a skill-based magic system). Those short stories got converted into comics, then later into animu, in series, minis series and movie formats.

The main character is an absurdly overpowered sorceress Lina Inverse and her companions. In the series this is the idiot Gourry, the the chimera Zelgadis and the princess Ameila. In the second season there is also the shrine maiden Sylphiel and in the third season the dragon priestess Filia. In the movies her companion is the battle slut Naga the white serpent (notable for her huge tits and annoying laughter). The anime looks and feels like a dream version of Dungeons and Dragons, without the LAWL RANDUM Chaotic Neutral players, the jackasses and the rule lawyers.

The series also had the LE character you all evil players should look up to, Rezo the Red Priest.

Slayers and Gaming

Guardians of Order has, on two occasions, failed to make a good RPG out of the license. First was a series of three splatbooks for their BESM tristat game, each book represents a single season of the series. These books did nothing a veteran gamemaster couldn't already do. But they did present playable stats of all of the main characters from the season they covered. Their second failure was the Slayers d20 book, which was one of many hanger-ons to the d20 OGL. Unlike most copycats though, this system did try to rebalance the classes, but ended up making a shitton of crap, such as the man-at-arms, shrine-maiden and sorcerer classes. One good feature was its innovative magic system; it allowed a caster to know a level dependent number of spell level worth of spells. This was also capped in that there wasn't a spells per day system, but instead a caster roll based on the arcana skill.

Gallery

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  BESM Slayers, book 1

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  BESM Slayers NEXT, book 2

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  BESM Slayers TRY, book 3

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  Slayers d20 book made by the same fags who made the BESM books.

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  It's pretty much like that.

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  4e tries to be like this

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  Not to be confused with this pile of faggotry.