Cross-post between this thread and Xanathar’s Guide thread:
My friend Wally is a huge Super Sentai fan, and he’s always been the one stuck DMing tabletop games. He really wants to be a player for once, and we were both having fun theorizing on a Super Sentai-themed campaign, with players picking what kind of sentai fighters or kaiju they might want to play, and engage in some good fun tokusatsu adventure. In short, I am going to run this game for him and a group of players.
My question is: I’d like to pick one or two series to really act as the source material for this campaign. Something fun and weird, that I can stick to as a core concept. Any suggestions?
Here's series I've seen that I can maybe draw from.
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The first Power Rangers series and the O.G. Power Rangers Movie
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Japanese Spider-Man
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Zone Fighter
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SSSS Gridman and bits of the original.
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CW’s Arrow
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Love After World Domination
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Random bits and pieces of stuff like Kamen Rider, Ultraman.
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If Godzilla Singular Point and The Green Slime counts than those too.
As far as ideas:
Some ideas I have currently.
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Off-duty segments either at some kind of base or a high school, a la Hill Valley. Maybe something like Magiranger’s Hogwarts-ass “school” or Turbo’s garage?
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Vehicles like weird zord-type mechas.
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Gunpla elements maybe? Like Kamen Rider Build’s crazy resin-mixing thing?
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Unique melee weapons in the style of the Power Rangers. The team can combine to shoot a laser.
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Rita Repulsa, and probably the Moon, or something similarly outlandish.
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Putties and similar disposable enemies.
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Motocycles
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Mysterious masked allies / villains. Maybe some insane Redman-type kaiju serial killer that is either friend or foe based on how the party interacts with him.
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Battles in a rock quarry.
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Old Dr. Light/Zordon-type mentor.
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Kaiju allies and enemies. “Kaiju culture” in the spirit of SSSS Gridman.
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Yelling out attacks and stuff like “BEST MATCH!!” all the time.
One important note: The ultimate goal is to delight this massive tokusatsu dork and give him a space to play in this space.