#TTRPG I ran this week:
🌈 Ultraviolet Grasslands: successful Spectrum Palace heist!
😈 Break!! in The Shrike: the spider-witch from hell is slain!
💁 Factotums: we tracked down a lost cat from Caen to Cherbourg and fed it a fish 😺🐟

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Ran our ~40th session of #BreakRPG in #TheShrike tonight (weekly, remote, 2h).

This setting book is a nightmare to use. We have been playing for almost a year, and I still struggle to find the informations I need in its seemingly random structure and lackluster index. The same NPC can have pieces of descriptions in 3 different chapters without references to one another ; stat blocks are either in location description or in the bestiary, seemingly at random ; page references are wrong… 😩

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So far, Break!! RPG has one of the best procedures for fighting colossal monsters. Each body part has specific HP, and a description of what happens if that body part suffers enough damage.

But not only that, to sell the absolute scale of the monster, each body part counts as a battlefield area, so all rules for normal combat apply, but now you're climbing giant legs and sliding across a monster's back, instead of running across the field. It's all just reflavoured!

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The Break!! RPG is undoubtedly a labor of passion for the hobby and its inspirations.

How else would you explain having 10+ years of development time, all documented in a blog running back to 2013!

https://breakrpg.blogspot.com/2013/12/whats-all-this-now.html?m=1

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Break!! RPG, written by Reynaldo Madriñan and with art and layout by Carlo Tartaglia is a beautiful game, although deceiving.

Its evocative cheerful anime illustrations lend themselves to a lighthearted vibe, however the rules put it closer to OSR sensibilities, both in procedure, lethality and its low-magic setting.

The list of inspirations immediately reveal this dichotomy, and I welcome this contrast, marrying "kawaii" and gritty violence in a way only anime can.

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Excited to go pack to playing in person! Had a character creation session for #BreakRPG with a new group and it already got my dice-rolling muscles itching!

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