So I'm trying to put together a game centered on magical girls, but I'm having trouble finding a system with good mechanics for it. Most of what I've found is too heavily based on the Puella Magi franchise, or puts mechanical functions on in-character relationships (which invites a level of munchkin/twinking that I find creepy and hard to trust players with), or has a combat system that depends too much on its own setting-specific details. Can anybody recommend something for this?
System rec plz
Gabriel Cooper
William Young
Mutants and Masterminds
Oliver Howard
GURPS is actually a good diea for this. You can find templates for Magical girls online. The system doesn't rely on a specific setting, nor does it put any emphasis on in-character relationships through mechanics. You may want to read the pastebin on magic in general if you want to know more about how to handle magic in the game.
Ian Turner
D&D 4e.
Liam Foster
I really hate to say this, but Savage Worlds.
Get the Necessary Evil setting for SW. The Super-Power rules presented there are EXTREMELY flexible and could just as easily be used to make a magical girl as well as a supervillain.
Hell, why not run a Magical Girl campaign in the Necessary Evil setting? Have the PCs in alien-occupied Japan for a few sessions as a kind of Magical Girl resistance. Then Dr. Doom shows up and tries to recruit them to join the Resistance.
Samuel Jenkins
Hey OP, you in need of players? I feel like it would be fun to try this kind of rp
Cameron Reed
Ah Necessary Evil it's such an incredibly fun and flexible setting/campaign.
This reminds me, when I ran this one of my PCs was literally Ryoko who was out for revenge after the V'Sori slaughtered all of her friends and dragged Tenchi away.
Jayden Hall
I'll check these out; thanks, everybody :D
I'm running this one in meatspace, sorry
Lincoln Watson
Strike! is fucking perfect if you want to have game-y, lighthearted tactical combats.
4e works too.
Isaiah Martin
Savage Worlds is really good for anime, I'd reccomend it to OP too. Spirit rolls to transform and such.