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The Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine RPG Halloween Special $9.99
Publisher: Jenna Katerin Moran
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by Zachary B. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 11/06/2014 07:57:07

Chuubo's can be a tough game to understand. The core book is jampacked with the rules, a bit of the setting, and all those arcs, and... and how do you put it all together?

This is the missing piece. Or one. Or really nothing was missing, but this is like the Cliff Notes to How You Could Play Chuubo's. Fairy Tale Style... as in horrible Grimm fairy tales. It's also an adventure revolving around how the Halloween world descends on a small "university" town.

There are 4+ character playbooks. The main 4 are fleshed out with Moran's signature writing style, and they bleed with the nature / demeanor of the characters. I think as a player it would be so easy to just glance at the playbook and understand how that character would act (like responding to a question about why you wear your blindfold with "your face"). They are all so well done that honestly I find it really hard to pick a favorite. I would want to play all 4 (well actually maybe 3, I'm still mad at Jasmine from the Fable of the Swan novel though it would be interesting to pull people's hearts out).

My favorite part of the book is the chapter breakdown because in such elegant simplicity it shows, instead of tells, how much railroad track the HG/GM should lay. For example, Chapter 3 is "The sky is different today. There are swirls of purple, orange, and darkness moving among the stars." The rest is largely up to the players wishes. Yes, there is this whole Halloween is coming and the world is about to become invaded by the mirror-world where a false Halloween King rules, but the HG/GM sets scenes and REACTS to the players.

Finally, the supplement wraps up with a detailed look at the Fairy Tale genre (genre in Chuubo's having mechanical parts to the RPG), and the book nicely wraps things up with handy handouts so that the table can easily remember things like actions and what not.



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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