Inspired by the Goblin Slayer RPG topic.  If the stars align just right and excutives agree on the idea to make a Berserk tabletop rpg would you play it?  If so what would you want to see?

I'd want a good ruleset that worked better than any existing rules at re-creating the way we see things work in the source material.

That's honestly what I want from most licensed adaptions. Very rarely you get a detailed setting where a well-written RPG would be useful as reference material even if you ran it with a different system. But in the majority of cases I find I could have done as good a job myself by picking whatever RPG rules I have that seem to fit best and running the setting with that.

I suspect the majority of posters on this side will be sufficiently experienced and own enough different RPG systems to feel the same way.

Quote from: Tantavalist on August 24, 2021, 07:08:39 AMI suspect the majority of posters on this side will be sufficiently experienced and own enough different RPG systems to feel the same way.

Agreed. Back when I was a kid, licensed RPGs were often the best way to get setting information in a usable format. But now all that information is online.

Personally, I'd rather have a licensed boardgame than a licensed RPG. Usually a licensed property is going to be too limiting to run a full length RPG campaign and it works better just picking and combining elements from multiple sources.

I've given up entirely on licensed RPGs.  Even when the stars align perfectly, there is still the overhead cost of the license and the mental overhead of working in the established space.  Seems that is too much to overcome in RPGs with their notoriously tight margins.

I'd play it. I can see it as a grittier version of Sword World.

Honestly, you don't need special rules for this stuff. It's just D&D but grimdark... or grimderp if you like.

Just increase the amount of graphic violence and gore in your games, and especially sexual violence towards women and girls. But whatever you do, don't depict sexual violence against men and boys because that could make your group uncomfortable. /sarcasm

Or you could tackle actually mature topics like morality, philosophy, blah blah blah. Gore-porn doesn't equate to maturity, but a child's idea of maturity.

I'm sure you probably heard all this before since it's long cliche now.

I want an rpg where you fight ersatz old school cylons and evil Otto in a maze and the game only costs $5 but you HAVE to pay in quarters.

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on August 25, 2021, 10:31:58 AMOr you could tackle actually mature topics like morality, philosophy, blah blah blah. Gore-porn doesn't equate to maturity, but a child's idea of maturity.

Jesus Box. I don't like Berserk but the way you whine about it, and the people that do, youd think it burned your house down.

Quote from: Shrieking Banshee on August 25, 2021, 10:59:08 AM

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on August 25, 2021, 10:31:58 AMOr you could tackle actually mature topics like morality, philosophy, blah blah blah. Gore-porn doesn't equate to maturity, but a child's idea of maturity.

Jesus Box. I don't like Berserk but the way you whine about it, and the people that do, youd think it burned your house down.

I don't have strong feelings towards Berserk, actually. I'm just tired of antis trying to pwn the SJWs by enthusiastically admitting fondness for the grimderp genre. You give them too much power over yourselves by curating your own interests specifically to pwn them. Berserk isn't even a series that SJWs regularly complain about. Do you guys like extreme sexual violence otherwise? I've seen too many good people get driven insane by becoming anti-SJWs.

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on August 25, 2021, 11:29:23 AM
I don't have strong feelings towards Berserk, actually. I'm just tired of antis trying to pwn the SJWs by enthusiastically admitting fondness for the grimderp genre.

And I complained about that myself in the Goblin Slayer thread. But I didn't dig at players insisting they do some high philosophy shit instead, or that they have some problem with males getting raped, or had a fetish for female rape

Quote from: Shrieking Banshee on August 25, 2021, 11:36:27 AM

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on August 25, 2021, 11:29:23 AM
I don't have strong feelings towards Berserk, actually. I'm just tired of antis trying to pwn the SJWs by enthusiastically admitting fondness for the grimderp genre.

And I complained about that myself in the Goblin Slayer thread. But I didn't dig at players insisting they do some high philosophy shit instead, or that they have some problem with males getting raped, or had a fetish for female rape

Humor doesn't translate well in text. I was trying to be tongue-in-cheek. I'll need to be clearer about that

The game shadows of esteren was heavily inspired by berserk. It's from a french company called agate, though i wouldn't back a kickstarter from them but they are on dtrpg. It's a classless system with the idea of skill trees that work in increments of 5 I think and is based entirely around d10s. So your your skill would be close combat 5, Blades 8 type deal.

Also look at shadow the demon lord. Really it's more about setting and atmosphere than rules imo

Shadow the demon lord is a good game for that.

Also, IIRC Berserk was inspired by Titan (fighting fantasy), although I don't see many similarities. Or was it Dark Souls? (well, DS is inspired by berserk, I think).

Berserk is an 80s granddaddy of grimdark fantasy.

I enjoy the manga but I'd be skeptical of a TTRPG set in this world. Berserk works because of Guts & Griffith. Much of characters beyond that are comically exaggerated, and the world loosely sketched out.

Golden Age arc is the most likely candidate for a setting timeframe, but it's also the least Berserk-like, since there's very little presence of supernatural forces like Apostles, undead creatures, trolls, or anything like that. Sword & Sorcery feel, all human and revolving around mercenary bands and armies.

Pre-Millenium Eclipse / Black Swordsman era would probably be my preferred time frame, but I feel like I'd struggle to come up with a meaningful way to characterize this period without the Guts point of reference. I suppose you can carry on with some of the Golden Age but Apostles and other supernatural beings become more active.

Age of the Hawk is my least favorite Berserk period, but might be the best for someone who wants a traditional TTRPG experience. The major challenge I see here is that you really have to have Griffith in the game to have this period make any sense. Great if you want to position your game within the greater Berserk metaplot, but limiting if you don't want that.