the sb tokusatsu thread

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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.

  • The first Power Rangers series and the O.G. Power Rangers Movie

  • Japanese Spider-Man

  • Zone Fighter

  • SSSS Gridman and bits of the original.

  • CW’s Arrow

  • Love After World Domination

  • Random bits and pieces of stuff like Kamen Rider, Ultraman.

  • If Godzilla Singular Point and The Green Slime counts than those too.

As far as ideas:

Some ideas I have currently.

  • 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?

  • Vehicles like weird zord-type mechas.

  • Gunpla elements maybe? Like Kamen Rider Build’s crazy resin-mixing thing?

  • Unique melee weapons in the style of the Power Rangers. The team can combine to shoot a laser.

  • Rita Repulsa, and probably the Moon, or something similarly outlandish.

  • Putties and similar disposable enemies.

  • Motocycles

  • 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.

  • Battles in a rock quarry.

  • Old Dr. Light/Zordon-type mentor.

  • Kaiju allies and enemies. “Kaiju culture” in the spirit of SSSS Gridman.

  • 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.

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