Thread 96498860

Seems like a fairly promising Japanese system that came out recently. There's a full unofficial fan translation, but you can only get access if you buy a copy and prove to the translator that you did, and the only places that sell it digitally use their own DRM readers for it.

Does anyone have any experience with the system?

>>96498860 (OP)
>and the only places that sell it digitally use their own DRM readers for it.
Japanese corpos are so retarded lmao.

>>96498860 (OP)
I appreciate the sheer effort to make people avoid piracy by hating the translator and everything associated with him, but it's not gonna work.

>>96498860 (OP)
My only experience with it is its retarded nonsense name.

>>96498860 (OP)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WXOoFh1yPg4VKtrDNepQI4OUqdpKWv9h/view

Take on the role of a Maverick, someone who stands firm to their beliefs and stands up for the little guy, in this magically-fueled dystopia. The system uses an ingenious "black jack" style d20 for resolving Tests, and often times you'll even be rolling a pool of them depending on status effects or skills. The game also requires a couple decks of playing cards, which represent the Aur (intangible magical radiation focused into your body) and Aurite (crystalized Aur) your character may use to power spells and ma-gear effects.
There are a good deal of auxiliary systems too, such as Leisure Time (downtime between scenarios), item crafting, vehicle rules, simple & map combat rules, environmental effects and status conditions, GM tools for designing sessions and enemies, and a good deal more.

The world setting is quite detailed, with various corporate and terrorist factions, and a handful of important NPCs. The game primarily takes place in the Metropolitan Sanctuary Tiphereth, where the majority of humanity is confined after the world-shattering collapse of the Sephiroth Tree 200 years prior. As a result of magic fueling all of society, the Mages of Academia naturally became cemented as the super-elite in control of what remained of civilization.
However, beyond its magically-powered super wall, lies the Outland where Aur contamination, natural disasters, and mutants run wild. Take care to stay on top of your Aur tax to avoid being exiled from the sanctuary... Here you might also run into rogue laboratories, raiders, ruins-diving, and other high-risk ventures. You can imagine the many places an adventure could take place!


>>96499099
It's an "embargo" that will expire Dec. 6th, so make another thread in the future. Just a timed incentive to funnel support to the authors since the book only came out June 20th.

>>96498860 (OP)
>X-card
>punk
lmao
Anyways, I like the aesthetic, but using both a d20 and a deck of cards might get complicated. I'd be interested to hear anyone's experience with the system myself.

>>96499324
>anon delivers
Thanks for the PDF, anon. I thought this was J-Shadowrun like Ventangle but it looks more like FF from a glance.

>>96499370
>The X-Card, for example, is simple to introduce and very effective.
Lmao. The people who championed that shit for years and convinced people to promote it in as many games as possible can't even use it right and it ended Koebel's career.

I wonder if that shit was actually in the real book or if the translator put it in there.

>>96499557
Yes it was in the original book. You can count on Japan to be late adopters of many feelgood features like that. Easy to add, no cultural downsides, pads the page count, and furthers the goal of being as soft-handling and accessible as possible. (This is on the topic of safety tools in general, and not really Magicpunk specifically).
The translation and PDF are laid out as 1:1 as possible, and nothing was omitted or added whole cloth. Where there are some deviations, the original is of course fully B&W, and the FTL used some of the official colored assets.

>>96499547
Shadowrun is actually a much better comparison than Cyberpunk, in my opinion. It makes a "little" more sense to keep in mind what "punk" might mean to a japanese person, but yeah. I am on my hands and knees saying to ignore the premade scenarios if you don't want the illusion of "defiance" shattered lol

>>96499557
>I wonder if that shit was actually in the real book or if the translator put it in there.
>>96499631
>Yes it was in the original book. You can count on Japan to be late adopters of many feelgood features like that. Easy to add, no cultural downsides, pads the page count, and furthers the goal of being as soft-handling and accessible as possible. (This is on the topic of safety tools in general, and not really Magicpunk specifically).
People shouldn't be shocked that stuff like this gets added in Japanese stuff. I know a lot of westerners (especially weeaboos) have this weird idea of Japan as some sort of "based trad country free from western degeneracy" or whatever but Japanese nerd culture is filled with stuff that people would accuse of being "woke" if it was in something western and has been for years. Some of the shit that western weebs think about Japanese people would weird out your average Japanese.
>>96499631
>It makes a "little" more sense to keep in mind what "punk" might mean to a japanese person
They know exactly what punk means anon. They've had a very vibrant and healthy punk scene since the 80s at the very least.

>>96499797
>They know exactly what punk means anon. They've had a very vibrant and healthy punk scene since the 80s at the very least.
Right you are, and my last post was off. What I meant to say was to "how punk might be viewed by an average japanese person." I won't speak on whether or not the authors themselves are "punks," but when the sample scenario exemplifies "Defiance (tm)" as overcoming a mechanical hurdle in combat, or obliterating a disabled and disenfranchised worker for a lack of "Conviction (tm)" in their wanton lashing out. I feel that kinda misses the PC's/setting's supposed theme and goals. Or maybe it doesn't, I don't hang with many punks in my day-to-day.

>>96499631
>>96499797
It's not necessarily that the Japanese RPG scene is just as woke and full of pearl-clutching tumblr-type poseurs. It's that they are quasi-westaboos. Their own RPG scene is so small that they are forced to rely on western imports and whatever they can find on the internet. Since english is a common school requirement, that's easier for them to do, but that usually dumps them on the surface level communities for the hobby at large. Reddit and RPGnet and Dicebreaker, and so on. Places where they will be told that Safety Tools are commonly used, widely accepted, and effective resources that everyone in the hobby has adopted.

Imagine if you knew nothing about RPGs, so you google them and buy the most popular ones that are served right to you by every algorithm. Those highly successful, popular games all tell you that safety tools should be used. You don't know any better, but if they published it in a book, it only makes sense that this is a normal thing people do, right? The idea that a group of brainrotted zealots infiltrated and foisted BDSM safety and care terminology onto a hobby of pretend elf games doesn't even enter your mind, especially if this is happening in a culture and country far removed from your own in ever way.

>>96499920
Again, this is what I meant. You're infantilizing Japanese people acting like they can't discern context and that they don't really know anything outside of their Japanese bubble. Most Japanese people (especially zoomers and younger millennials) are more aware of what Americans are up to than vice versa.

>>96500034
They understand the surface level as well as any foreigner can, but to say "Most Japanese" understand American culture and all its complexities is just retarded.

>>96500093
Americans are even more ignorant of foreign cultures. I don’t think the average yank really gets that.

>>96500391
Simply not true, retard.