This new isekai-centric game has got me in the mood to try out the rules with my own group. What are some recommended essentials in the genre I should check out, and what advice can you give me on running a game with a mix of characters from both worlds? I've played Planescape before so I'm familiar with the idea of Primes and Planars being more suited to their respective realities.
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>What are some recommended essentials in the genre I should check out
>KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!
>Kumo tbh ga, Nanika?
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Also some of the classics: InuYasha, Escaflowne, .hack//Twilight, Digimon Adventure, a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, the Chronicles of Narnia (most of them, anyway), The Wizard of Oz, and A Princess of Mars.
>InuYasha
Oh yeah, used to watch that sometimes when I turned on adult swim too early. I remember it being pretty good.
it was good and still holds up. the """"sequel"""" involving the children of the original cast, not so much.
>the """"sequel"""" involving the children of the original cast, not so much.
That sounds awful, thanks for the warning.
Ha, I was going to mention Escaflowne if all you mentioned was new shit. I always thought of it as just fantasy til Isekai started killing the Harry Potter magic academy shows and became it's own genre.
Wow.. You're right. Wizard of Oz is Isekai
This list is solid. I kinda miss dark 90s fantasy inspired by D&D but new isekai fantasy is better than Harry Potter high school drama.
>This list is solid
Excepting of course that two of the things on it aren't actually isekai's. I was kind of hoping someone would notice.
(Bofuri and .hack//Twilight. Bofuri isn't an isekai because they can log out at any time and there are zero actual stakes, it's just a game played for fun by everyone involved with no actual real-world consequences. And .hack//Legend of the Twilight isn't an isekai, I would argue, because from episode 1 thru to the final episode our characters can log out whenever they like. Though .hack//SIGN is an isekai. I think a true isekai requires a "trapped" component to being in another world)
>Wow.. you're right. Wizard of Oz is Isekai
And Chronicles of Narnia. And Bruce Campbell vs. Army of Darkness.
There are plenty of Isekai where the other-worlder(s) are not actually trapped there and can freely go back and forth between the two. I would say VRMMO "Isekai" are kind of a sub genre anyways, specifically ones where the game is real and not just the "base" for the world the character is transported to (ie Overlord or SAO).
>I would say VRMMO "Isekai" are kind of a sub genre anyways, specifically ones where the game is real and not just the "base" for the world the character is transported to (ie Overlord or SAO).
The issue with game settings is usually one of stakes. It's why the .hack stories have always hinged on some combination of people being seriously injured/killed (IMOQ, GU) and/or being trapped in the game (SIGN). There are of course other issues with the gradual lit-RPG-ification of fantasy settings, like powerscaling and breaking flow with FRICKING TEXT BOXES, but you can write MMO stories without getting bogged down in the minutia of hunting 16 bear asses, as much as people are loathe to actually do so.
>Also some of the classics: InuYasha, Escaflowne
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>a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, the Chronicles of Narnia (most of them, anyway), The Wizard of Oz, and A Princess of Mars.
I salute your taste, anon.
For those of us with a more ... base taste, there's of course Gor (pic related). Just in case you ever thought only Japs can be disgusting pervs in their written stories.
Worth noting that my favorite Narnia book, A Horse and His Boy, is *not* an isekai, as every major character in it is a native of the realm, and while two Isekai’d characters do show up, it’s purely in their capacity as a King and Queen of Narnia.
Gor is overhyped wrt the pervy stuff. I read a few of them and they are pretty tame. Any random edgy genre fiction writer from the 80s or 90s, like Karl Edward Wagner or S.M. Stirling, had much raunchier stuff in their books.
>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour
That's a time travel story. Quit trying to claim it, Isekaigay.
King Arthur ain't real.
how do you think they filmed the Holy Grail then? You prancing la-la homomancer.
It's only a model
A homomancer is just someone who talks to people.
>>Kumo tbh ga, Nanika?
For the love of god pelase read the novel or at least the manga, don't watch the anime (but lsiten to the OST while doing so)
>isekai-centric
That's not what Break!! is.
Isekai-accommodating?
Yeah, sure.
>Dimensional Stray
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The Twelve Kingdoms.
Isn't this that one game with the inflation fetish magical realm?
It's also the one where a shifty hobo flasher has exactly enough wealth to buy a child slave for a day (two pieces of candy)
Shit, I forgot about that. A big part of me wishes you didn't remind me.
Nice slide thread
Thanks, I really hated the thread at the bottom of page 11, so I made this thread just to push it off the board.
>isekai-centric
It's got 1 isekai race out of, what, 10?
What, you expect OP to like read the rulebook or something?
You want 10 isekai races? What is your point?
He's upset because someone enjoys something.
At some point, ya all just Planescape.
1 of 10 isn't centric, anon.
Can I play as a vending machine?
One of the races is robots, so maybe
where are my kemono girls
Dead, yo ushould join them.
What's with the attitude?
MINI-homie!