Editing Kaiju (section)

==/tg/ relevance==
Before they suddenly got a wider presence in the mainstream scene, Kaijus were pretty niche, and certainly amongst the nerdiest of shit. Some would prefer to watch wrestling and hear Vince McMahon scream the name of the new champion every month or so, [[Neckbeard|some prefer to watch people in rubber suits pretending to be obese lizard charging lasers while throwing each other unto buildings]]. For the longest time, Kaiju films were a japanese exclusive and hardly accessible. Meaning that if you wanted to watch one of those flicks, you had to know where to look, but you also really had to be into it because a lot of those films were unapologetic sci-fi schlocks. People come in for the monsters, they ''stayed'' for the monsters.

Naturally, /tg/ being occupied by nerds, it's easy to assume a lot of them might be into kaiju shit. Usually speaking, Mecha-fans and Kaiju-fans tend to go hand in hand, [[This Guy|sitting right there on the same spectrum of autism]]. That, or they [[Skub|fight for no particular reason on who's got the worse genre]].

When it comes to featuring kaiju in tabletop gaming, the first things that we ''have'' to talk about is [[Monsterpocalypse]], a miniatures-based war game in which you get to be the star of your own kaiju movie, controlling all manner of giant monsters, giant [[mecha]], and other things related to the genre, like [[ninja]]s that can grow into kaiju-sized battlers.

The other notable source of kaiju-related /tg/ content is, ironically, [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. Back in the days of [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]], not only was the adventure module [[WG6: Isle of the Ape]] was basically "D&D does King Kong", but there was also a monster called the "Gargantua", which was basically a thinly veiled kaiju - the sample picture of a "Reptilian Gargantua" in the Monstrous Manual even looks like a knock-off Godzilla. 3e saw the Gargantuas return in the page of [[Dragon Magazine]] #289, where [[Paizo]] provided rules for creating and battling your own kaiju in 3e. They followed this up when they split off to form [[Pathfinder]], creating the Kaiju monster template, officially creating a "Monster Island" for [[Golarion]], and inventing their own set of individual kaiju.

There is also Splicers, by Palladium Books( the same authors of Rifts), which uses the War Mounts, creatures  who acts as partners for some classes and are almost completely customizable by the players. While not every War Mounts is Kaijuu sized, most of them still have an impressive arsenal of organic weapons before said customization and terryfing strength and endurance, even by the standards of the Megaverse

[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] has an entire archetype dedicated to making your opponent fight you with giant monsters aptly named, [[Derp|Kaiju]], with a lot of Kaiju effects revolving around making sure nothing, spells, traps, and other monsters, etc, interfere with your big monster fight.