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I like those. They're all wonderful suggestions. Are there going to be book-shots for the rest? ^_^

Shouldn't that be "The Catgirls :3"? ...DeathBySurfeit, taking things too seriously

And, um, wouldn't magical girls be better as Sidereal equivalents? ...DeathBySurfeit, obviously dwelling on the matter more than is healthy

Helping goddesses have a tie to heaven like the Sidereals; Magical Girls usually do not. Also, most magical girls UTTERLY LACK SUBTLETY. :) --JohnBiles

OOoooh... this I like... I like... lots... =^_^= haku at work

I made some changes to reformat my own ideas from rpg.net :) --JohnBiles

Shouldn't the Scarlet Empress be Neo-Empress Scarlet? I think N-ES is cuter. Drakensis

Why would the Bishonen be the Solars? If you have both Bishonen and any other group on the list, the Bishonen instintly becomes the glorified cheerleader/sidekick/romantic interest - Their never the main heroes exempt in stories that have only Bishonen. - Dasmen vanishes in a storm of rose petals

But there's lots of stories that do have them as the protagonists, and they tend to be shown as excelling at whatever it is they do. Note that Tuxedo Kamen, for example, is stronger than any of the Sailor Senshi, even if he does tend to stand back and wait for them to need saving... Also, it sets up men for the catgirls to have married in the first age :) --JohnBiles

He's weaker then Pluto, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and when she get serious, Moon. It also isn't restricted to Sailor Moon - In everything from Juebi=Chan, to Slayers, to Pretear, El Hazard, to Magic Knights Rayearth, they get pushed to the sidelines, or at least have people belonging to one of the other groups being more potent. Bishonen do have stoies where they have center stage, but only when the story doen't have one of the otehr groups also. - Dasmen sinks through the ground and is gone.

But there's also stories like Escaflowne, X, Tsubasa Reservoir, Orphen, etc, where the Bishonens take the lead, despite the presence of other types as well. They fill the whole role of the male action hero as well as being love interests and side-kicks. And who else would you put in their place? --JohnBiles

I wouldn't try to mach up the splats at all - Catgirls have a very differnt character (cuter, usually more subtle, often quite weak) then Lunars - helping goddesses often have more in common with Solar Sorrcerers then anything, Robot Girls go from one end of the spectrum to the other - so I would try to come up with some way of making each splat very broad, rather then trying to match them up. - Dasmen is sucked into a portal to the darkness

Dasmen, you're taking the wrong perspective. A Bishounen-centric campaign is a harem anime where the one hot guy is the center of it all and all the other splats are there to fall in love with him. I remember someone saying on the wiki in the longago that "Solars don't have very unusual means, they're just very good at getting their ends achieved through straightforward ones". Similarly, the one guy at the center of the harem anime may have less Fantabulous Magical Power than the girls around him, but he is nonetheless The Guy Who The Plot Is About and that is a special power all its own. Of course, in a Magical Girls campaign, the story is different, just as a Solar operates differently in a Dragon-Blooded campaign. --Ben-San

Hmmm... I think I've said it's cute... hmmm... don't magical girls also tend to have weaknesses vs bishonens? Which might be a carry-over from the 'First Age'. ^_-
~ Haku

Yep! --JohnBiles

You know, we have to make use of the Harem genre for the first age to explain the grouping of a single Bishie with a catgirl companion, a helping goddess and a pack of magical girls... This is almost like the SI Ranma/Tenchi harem that you see floating about. ~ haku who wonders if Ta'averen 1/2 or Parallel Lives is still being worked on.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. As for T 1/2 and PL, I will eventually return to them, but right now, I seek a permanent full time job somewhere, having FINALLY gotten my Ph.D. --JohnBiles

Ah... I understand that, althou, it IS nice to see another FFMLer out here. Hmmm, I do have a question, would there be a devious demonesses as a counter part to the Helping Goddesses or are they just different hats that the goddesses wear? And Bishies who got taken down and possesses far too much angst, broodiness become loli goths? ^_^
~ haku who is a master lurker

Yes, the Yozis would be the source of the Devious Demonesses who oppose the Helping Goddesses. And yeah, the Lords of Cute Angst who created the Gothic Lolitas were former First Age Bishonens who fell to the Brooding side :) --JohnBiles

.. I'd so buy this ^^ Can't wait til it's all fleshed out :) FluffySquirrel

There are no words to express the way I feel. BRILLIANT! - Trithne

Epsilon, very brilliant summary of charm categories! I like it very much. --JohnBiles

Nice job on the Gothic Lolita cover! --JohnBiles

I'm in utter awe... a part of me is impressed beyond words, another part of me wants to die because this exists, and even more of me wants to die when I think about the time and energy invested in it, and the excitement this project seems to create. --UncleChu shudders in terror, and wipes away a single tear before returning to his desk to draw a totally kick-ass picture of a Solar fighting demons.

We'll take that as a complement. --JohnBiles smiles with big eyes gleaming, then doodles a totally cute picture of SD helping goddesses chasing a demon around with giant mallets.

Aaaaagh. Now see what you've done? I want to play this. ~ WeepingStar

When we're done with it, it will be playable, so... --JohnBiles

So I'm going to have to somehow scrounge together a group of gamers who won't just hit me in the face for suggesting it. :P ~ WeepingStar

Well, I'm going to want to playtest at some point. --JohnBiles

Ooh ooh ooh, I want to be involved somehow! ~ WeepingStar

Well, I haven't figured out how I'll playtest, but enthusiasm = good :) Of course, helping to write it all would advance the day when playtesting can happen. ^_- --JohnBiles

I cleaned out the old comments and archived them. Magical Girls are now playable. Catgirls just need their Charm Set to be playable. If anyone else wants to help write charmsets, I won't throw myself in your path :) If anyone wants to try building some sample Magical Girls, that would be good to, see if the MG charmset provides enough utility for a starting char or if any holes suddenly present themselves. -- JohnBiles

Oh, I so have to be a part of this!!! May I? May I!? MAY I!? I feel like taking my chances with the Helping Goddesses or the Gothic Lolitas (you've just got to love the Gothic Lolitas). --Wings

A victim...a helper! :) If you want to take on doing charms for the Helping Goddesses or the Gothic Lolitas, please do so! I would be most grateful! I'm likely going to try and muster the mental strength for the Catgirl charm set next. -- JohnBiles

Then the Gothic Lolitas it is! Please look forward to it......I am. --Wings