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I should note an amusing quirk of trademark and licensing regarding Call of Cthulhu. Naturally, Chaosium holds the trademark for "Call...
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Arigato gozaimasu, Iosue-sama! I'm happy to see the Bihoruda get some exposure. I'm only sorry I don't get to see the anime-style...
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So, I’m not entirely sure this is the reason, but it just so happens that Lovecraft’s pre-1927 writings went into the Japanese public...
Aug 31, 2025
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Let’s go back a little bit to 1998. F.E.A.R. publishes the third edition of Tokyo N◎va, called Tokyo N◎va: The Revolution. In that RPG...
Aug 31, 2025
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The surprise hit of Sword World RPG in 1989 had two notable effects. For one, there was a notable explosion of games, from a wide...
Aug 31, 2025
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Group SNE went gangbusters in the late 1980s, but there were many other developments, as well. First, in 1986, Hobby Japan released a...
Aug 31, 2025
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This next part will focus more on GroupSNE, partly because it is probably the most influential organization on TRPGs in Japan, but also...
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d10s barely existed in the early 1980's. I played D&D for YEARS before we ever saw a single d10. ALL d20's in those days were numbered...
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One day in January, 1983, Hitoshi Yasuda’s phone rang. It was, to his surprise, Koichi Sato, president of Hobby Japan. “Yasuda-san,” he...
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So if we go back to the primordial beginnings of TRPGs in Japan, if one looked around a local toy store or hobby shop in Tokyo, and that...
Aug 31, 2025
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Yes. Even for the time, it was very enthusiastically "our three existing friends really like Asia, so we don't need to talk to any...
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12 is also cleanly divisible by 3. For whatever that's worth.
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Picture courtesy of Pixabay. To help you on your games design journey, here are the common pitfalls in the journey you might like to be...
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The primary thing I disliked about it turned out to be the primary thing I disliked about Fate--at least, it felt close to me. When I...
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I've got some reservations about donating to a for-profit enterprise. When Palladium found itself in dire straits because an employee...
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