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A short primer on the Yellow Submarine RPG shop at Akihabara If you find yourself in Tokyo and want to pick up some Japanese TTRPGs (as I did for myself and Mikan), hopefully this post will be of some assistance. Yellow Submarine has several shops in Akihabara, each specialising in different hobbies e.g. one only sells cards for trading card games like Weiss Kreuz and Chaos TCG, another sells model kits, etc. So make sure you know which one you want! In this case, the shop we're looking for is on the right of this map, highlighted in red on the 7th floor. Somehow I forgot to take pictures of the building itself but it's reasonably easy to find, just off the Chuo-dori main street. The initial view as you're about to step into the shop:  The tabletop games shop also sells translated versions of popular games such as Carcasonne as seen on the left. And yes, those are Cthulhu plushies on the right.  More gaming goodness, including Games Workshop stuff at the end.  Hey, that red box looks familiar   Popular stuff. Meikyuu Kingdom   More RPG books. Notable for its absence of Sword World 2.0 and Alshard GAIA   The service counter, where they also hold the brand-new copies of books (so you can get a copy of Meikyuu Kingdom in mint condition). Handy hint: if you want to take photos of a shop in Japan, ask for permission first! Privacy laws may be different to what you're used to, and anyway it's Just Good Manners.  I was also looking for a copy of Tenra Bansho Zero but it was out of stock, being an older book. I did buy Tenra WAR which is its successor; the book is a tome of decent heft, and has a bunch of colour pages at the beginning explaining the setting before getting into the nitty-gritty.
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May 19, 2012 06:33
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DiamondSutra posted:I'm Andy, the dude who produced maid, translated Tenra Bansho, working on Ryuutama and another game, and run the crappy not-as-updated-as-I-thought j-rpg.com blog (boo; will get back to that once time permits). I think this is how I originally found out about Yellow Submarine via a Google search some time ago, so thanks for that. Also for Tenra Bansho Zero  Also also, welcome to the forums.
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Jun 8, 2012 04:51
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'Haiyore! Nyaruko-san The Game'? I can dig it.
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Jun 11, 2012 05:50
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Yep, which is why I picked up copies for myself and Mikan when I was there last month. You'll have to make use of a proxy service such as From Japan or Tenso. Disclaimer: I haven't actually used these services, just had them in my bookmarks.
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Jun 11, 2012 16:14
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Potsticker posted:Looks like the Tenra Bansho kickstarter is just about upon us. http://www.tenra-rpg.com/blog/?p=241 My wallet was suffering enough from video-game Kickstarters, then comes Last Stand/Dungeon World/Tenra Bansho.  HURT ME MORE
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Jul 25, 2012 09:20
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drat it, missed out on the higher tiers. The unjust rewards of being given a weekend work shift. Ah well, this Kickstarter is going gangbusters, mustn't complain too much  Edit: Never mind, happily eating my words. $520 down 
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Aug 18, 2012 09:39
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My dreams of roleplaying as Mecha-Koromaru will be realised. Ryuutama isn't my cup of tea but I'll be contributing to the Kickstarter anyway once it surfaces.
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Aug 24, 2012 04:28
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16.5 days remaining for the Tenra Bansho Kickstarter. Another $4114 and the next stretch goals get unlocked (extended sample characters, material release). Over 600%
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Aug 31, 2012 05:00
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It's like the Kanji avatar was tailor-made for this. Also I guess my mention of Koromaru earlier on is an odd coincidence. Edit: that's a big update. Lots of nice stuff. 7 days 7 hours to gooooooo Cheap Trick fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Sep 9, 2012 |
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Sep 9, 2012 09:49
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Tenra Bansho Zero has passed $70,000 in pledges. Adventure scenarios and rules reference are unlocked. 
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Sep 9, 2012 17:52
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I wonder what Japanese grognards bitch about 
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Sep 10, 2012 16:23
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DiamondSutra posted:My noble character had a gross, uncool tent, and I used the funds to buy Beautiful torches and Delicious rations! :-) Complication: mold grows inside your character's gross, uncool tent and gives him an affliction. Find certain rare herbs to get rid of the coughing and sneezing, or your character will look less noble and you can forget about stealth moves.
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Sep 13, 2012 01:55
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Potsticker posted:http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/diamondsutra/tenra-bansho-zero-an-art-and-culture-rich-rpg-from If it has a pledge spike in the last 24 hours as has happened to several other Kickstarters... 
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Sep 13, 2012 05:10
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I'd also be expecting an up-swing on the last day as some people receive a "24 hours to go on this Kickstarter!" email if they clicked the widget on the page. That graph
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Sep 14, 2012 01:23
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$100K or bust, DiamondSutra, ya hear me!?
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Sep 14, 2012 01:29
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I want 'em all. I want all the Japanese RPGs. (Meikyuu Kingdom wheee)BryanChavez posted:It really ought to be $108k. You're right, that is a more auspicious number.
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Sep 14, 2012 04:03
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Potsticker posted:So close to just buying these myself. Even if they just end up in my stack of books to flip through. That's pretty much how my copies have ended up Having skills lined up in rectangles is a great design concept. So tidy and neat.
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Sep 14, 2012 05:17
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It's okay, they knew the risks when they pledged allegiance. "But weren't they actually conscripted via royal decree?" shutupshutupshutup
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Sep 14, 2012 06:20
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After reading the Penny Arcade article on Tenra Bansho Zero, I want to stat up a robo-geisha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgrKLjoWcbs
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Sep 14, 2012 06:35
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CommissarMega posted:Okay, I have to ask- where's your avatar from, ProfessorCirno? Cirno is the strongest Touhou. More specifically, the avatar's probably from the Touhou Hisōtensoku fighting game. Edit: wait a minute, you're posting on the first page of the Touhou Megathread, now I'm confused Cheap Trick fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Sep 14, 2012 |
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Sep 14, 2012 09:36
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I like seeing the avatar in grognards.txt, it's like Cirno is laughing at the bad opinions.
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Sep 14, 2012 10:41
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On the subject of intro pages, here's a couple I took from Tenra War. 
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Sep 14, 2012 12:53
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Doc Hawkins posted:I love that Japanese RPG designers didn't get the memo about how you're never supposed to ask players to multiply or divide. Frank's brain would explode from the computational strain before he could fire off a rant. mikeycp posted:Apparently I'm blind and there is a separate Yellow Submarine for games right next to the card one... I suspected they'd have a similar set-up to Akihabara but it was only an educated guess so I kept my trap shut.
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Sep 15, 2012 01:35
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They're a few blocks apart there, but pretty much. (ohgod I want to go back to Japan)
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Sep 15, 2012 02:03
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DiamondSutra posted:Did you hear my interview about Tenra over on Yellow Menace? I spend the first 10 minutes talking about "ZOMBIE rear end", the new movie by the director of Robo-Geisha. How about breast missiles? Edit: so much for $108k  
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Sep 15, 2012 06:03
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Doc Hawkins posted:Andy is a cool guy. Please take lots of pictures 
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Sep 17, 2012 06:40
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I wish I was in this "Bay Area"  Edit: All for a TradGames goon-meet in Japan though Cheap Trick fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Sep 18, 2012 |
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Sep 18, 2012 01:28
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Badingading posted:On a semi-related note, does anyone know anywhere online I could acquire the MK Dungeon rulebook? I'd go with the Amazon.co.jp link posted a few pages back except they won't ship it outside of Japan. Proxy shipping via Tenso?
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Oct 1, 2012 05:43
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Desty posted:Say I'm Joe-san, a peasant dragged away by his lord's armies to fight in the wars. I decide Joe's fates are to kill the lord that caused his misery in the war, and to return to his village and resume his life, two Goals. Bob, my fellow player, decides that Joe-san has a dark Secret. I need the aiki, so I agree, but secretly think this is a dumb idea. I sublimate the Secret next chance I get, and I get to knock off some karma because of it. For one thing, you've provided the GM with some plot hooks: say later on, when Joe-san the Peasant is now Joe-san the Big Shot War Hero, someone else finds out about the dark secret and is going to blackmail him. The assumption is that you'll come up with an in-game explanation for sublimating the Secret anyway. I can't remember the exact words, but it's stated that even if you initially min-max this way, it all goes into character building and you should end up getting into the spirit of the game.
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Oct 8, 2012 16:00
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My TBZ stuff arrived, featuring masterful calligraphy by DiamondSutra. Now I can be a Tenra Bancho too   Also a 50-yen coin snuck into the bag of kanji dice somehow.
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Oct 9, 2012 04:02
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DiamondSutra posted:Also, that's a 5-yen coin. It's the lucky one! Whoops, I keep getting 5s and 50s mixed up. Today is a lucky day indeed. Also don't sign your posts here 
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Oct 9, 2012 04:17
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Desty posted:Say I want to get my hands on an original copy. Is Amazon Japan going to be my best bet? Are there digital options? How soon do you want a copy? I'm going to Japan again at the end of next month. Thanks to Andy/DiamondSutra, I have another gaming shop to check out; might post some photos when I find it.
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Mar 27, 2013 09:48
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I've put my money down for a copy, although with the USPS price hike on international shipping, I may drop down to the digital tier.
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Apr 19, 2013 01:39
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Comrade Gorbash posted:It's not a Japanese game, but you might be interested in this Kickstarter. Thanks pal, this game looks great. There goes another
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Apr 21, 2013 16:54
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CommissarMega posted:Now, I'm as ardent a supporter of Engine Heart as anyone else (hell, I put it up in the TG Kickstarter thread), but in the interests of honesty, I have to say that the game itself exists in a free PDF form available at the creator's website. The Kickstarter's just there to get it sold in stores. Mind you, that goal in itself is worth the ten bucks. True enough. I liked what I saw in the game book so I thought it was fair to pay the author for its use. Plus there's the stretch goals and modules thrown in.
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Apr 22, 2013 03:14
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I've been puttering around Tokyo for the past week and will be for a while more, so I present: A short primer on the Role & Roll shop at Akihabara Thanks to Andy/DiamondSutra for enlightening me as to this shop's location. Just like Yellow Submarine, this shop contains all sorts of table-top gaming stuff. There's a map on their home page. Google Maps reference. Sixth floor of this building on the Chuo-dori main road:  Most of what's in the shop. Board games are off-image to the left:  Gaming area is behind these screens. I could hear chatter and dice being rolled. I wanted to join in   The main subject of this thread:  View from the counter:  If you're getting homesick for good ol D&D I guess you can go here:  A bunch of stuff I bought today. I admittedly bought the Angel Gear books for the superficial reason of "interesting-looking covers". I can't read this stuff (yet)! 
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May 2, 2013 13:15
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Rasamune posted:There's an Etrian Odyssey TRPG? Cheap Trick posted:I can't read this stuff (yet)! I'm sure a more learned colleague in this thread can field this question.
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May 2, 2013 14:27
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Arivia posted:Besides, I have a bunch of Pathfinder stuff to rip off if I needed that; I was just curious what the actual presentation of D&D is like in Japan. I'm heading back into Akihabara tomorrow so I'll have a flip through the books and see what's the deal.
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May 2, 2013 15:27
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CHaKKaWaKka posted:I just received the Double Cross errata through the mail, sweet of Ver Blue Amusement to do that. It corrects the stats of the sample characters, which should be very useful if I ever decide to run a game. Is this errata available online?
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Jul 22, 2013 15:38
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Thanks for the link. But it turns out a hard-copy of the errata landed on my office desk while I was down in Melbourne for PAX. Now that's customer service.
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Jul 23, 2013 06:49
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