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Old 12-03-2017, 08:03 PM   #1
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Default Dragon Ball Inspired "Ki" Hero

EDIT: In case you found this and you know who wrote it, my Dragon Ball setting which I eventually made into a very long game manual changed radically after this. The dumb ideas about telekinesis being the main power and telekinetically compresed balls of plasma were replaced. My original attempt at translating Dragon Ball to GURPS was awful and I replaced it over the course of a few months with a much better version. I guess the original dumb ideas did pave the way for better ones though. My original ideas may have been as terrible as the live action Dragon Ball movie was said to be (honestly I never watched it) but over time I made a better setting closer to the anime and manga. You can message me if you want to learn about it - I decided to leave it unpublished. Originally, ki was a type of spirit energy. Later, ki became spirit matter that evaporated off of your spirit body, but you could infuse it with spirit energy. In the real world, in my mind, ki is a form of creativity that comes forth from your soul. Unfortunately, I think my first attempt at GURPSifying Dragon Ball had poor ki flow but I got better at it over time.


http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...fy-Dragon-Ball

I actually joined just to share this. Steve Jackson Games can do whatever they want with the idea, since it's posted here, but the stuff in Goodkill's sig is all copyrighted.

Anyway, I've whittled down the concept rather than actually implemented the GURPS rules for it yet. I am getting the GURPS Supers book for Christmas but haven't looked at it yet.

A Ki-powered superhero, though inspired by Dragon Ball and legends related to "ki" or "chi", could make a good superhero in general (there's also Naruto and Avatar TLA ... Max Steel ... similar super powers). I made another post in that forum about "GURPSifying" superheroes, but the consensus was just for me to buy GURPS Supers and read that.

What do you guys think about it? It was inspired by my childhood love for DB and recently by dreams I've had - usually where I have telekinesis or Dragon Ball super powers (flight usually; kaioken or super saiyan; as i said in the thread, i usually fail at manifesting ki blasts and instead manifest yogurt or food ... which is still energy so my mind is clever like that).

Last edited by gibberingmouther; 07-21-2019 at 04:22 PM. Reason: Update About My Content
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