Does anyone have a good system for pic related?
Looking for something that will work well for relatively low-stakes magical drama and hijinks. Has anyone run something like that?
5e
GURPS
>>54279611
Ryuutama, Golden Sky Stories, or Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine?
>>54279611
BESM
>>54279611
MAID RPG
I'm being completely serious.I really am.
>>54279611
Champions/Hero system is pretty much as versatile as GURPS without needing so many splatbooks. Just need a lot of GM interaction when character building so you can say "No, I'm not letting you do that."
>>54280198
Just refluff it so that "skill" is "magic skill" and the master is the headmistress. Bam, done, you're welcome.
>>54280378
Like I said, I was being completely serious.
>>54279611
I believe Ars Magica was the Recommended system for Harry Potter, so it should to quite well here.
would this do what you want?
>>54280663
Thanks, senpai, this is pretty good. Got any more info on the system? Is it original /tg/ content or what?
>>54279984
>>54280198
This is definitely the kind of thing I'm looking for.
I hadn't considered MAID, but I've read the book before and it seems like it might actually work with some minor changes. Ryuutama and GSS definitely have the right low-stakes magical drama feel, but I think either would probably require character creation to be completely rewritten. I haven't heard of Chuubo before, but it looks really cool.
>>54280399
I'm having a hard time seeing how you could run Harry Potter in Ars Magica. Unless you're running it more like a "magical grad school" similar to The Magicians.
>>54282419
>Twin Indian girls
That's a bit blatant, isn't it?
>>54282419
>Is it original /tg/ content or what?
Yep. The designer has a discord where they're taking input on a version 2.
Though to be honest most of what I saw suggested ruin the charm and levity of the game. Hopefully Cashmore takes it with a grain of salt.
There's also this experimental "playtest patch" update.
>>54280399
As much as I like Ars, it's a very poor fit for games about a magic school. I'm tempted to make some houserules for it, but I'm a lazy cunt so it'll probably never get done.
>>54285564
>Fuck it, just throw in some PBtA mechanics
Not that I'm complaining, the dice mechanic seems like a definite improvement.
>>54282468
The world becomes more developed (i.e less of a Potter ripoff) in the series.
>>54285564
Could you provide a link to said Discord?
>>54280198
>>54280378
>>54280395
I've never been so interested in MAID.
>>54279611
>inb4 someone posts Witch Girls Adventures out of spite
>>54286421
https://discord.gg/mEjAZ
>>54289095
http://www.mediafire.com/file/oma98131893ylui/Night+Witches+RPG.pdf
Fate Accelerated? I remember a few of the exmaples in the book were "vague totally not Harry Potter" so you could go from there or something.
>>54282419
You basically want a light, narrative game for this: Microscope and Munchausen are as light as possible, as is MAID with the lewd stuff (and stress explosions) taken out. Maid Powers would probably need reworking. I'm not a super big fan of Chuubos', because it hits a level of overstuffed that makes me want to step up to Fate Accelerated for actual rules.
Ryuutama would work very well for a more adventurous version of the setting, but everyone would probably need to have spells hacked in. GSS could work, renaming the henges into various bloodlines/character archetypes instead.
>>54289095
If you hated yourself and stripped out the fetish shit, it'd work about as well as MAID, desu.
>>54290491
>>54290597
Microscope would probably work, but I think part of the fun of a magic world is getting to experiment and play around with the magic rules/setting. You don't really get that feel from a collaborative world building game.
FATE is fine, but I can't stand the narrative crunch mechanics.
I wonder what the best way to do the archetypes would be. On one hand, ut could be built around magical abilities: The Spirit Meduim, The Alchemist, The Chosen One, The Technomancer, etc. On the other hand, you could use character concepts: The Klutz, The Bookworm, The Goth, The Diva, etc. Maybe do both and have every character pick 1 of each?