Mist Robed Gate

Which is more important: your desire or your life?

Your life's work, uniting warring kingdoms under a banner of peace and prosperity. Your one true love, a blind musician whose entire family was slaughtered by mercenaries. Your integrity, healing your name from the blood and bruises of a violent, reckless youth. Your freedom, forbidden to you by your iron-clad place in a privileged, insulated world.

You can never have both.

-Back cover text

Mist Robed Gate is a tabletop roleplaying game written by Shreyas Sampat which emulates emotionally difficult kung-fu action, such as Wuxia and some more Melodrama-inspired anime. Mist Robed Gate games almost always swing between Tear Jerker and Kill Em All. And, of course, Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting in every game. It is available here.

Common tropes:

 * Action Girl
 * All Love Is Unrequited
 * Berserker Tears
 * Bloodless Carnage
 * Broken Pedestal
 * Brother Sister Incest
 * Cherry Blossoms
 * Childhood Marriage Promise
 * Cycle of Revenge
 * Dissonant Serenity
 * Dramatic Shattering
 * Evil Chancellor
 * Fantastic Romance
 * Gender Bender Friendship
 * Heartbroken Badass
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * Honor Before Reason
 * Improvised Weapon
 * Incest Is Relative
 * Last Second Chance
 * Love Dodecahedron
 * Love Makes You Crazy
 * Love Makes You Dumb
 * Love Makes You Evil
 * Love Triangle
 * Overcrank
 * Martial Pacifist
 * Off the Table
 * Parental Favoritism
 * Rebellious Princess
 * Secret Relationship
 * She Fu
 * Supernatural Martial Arts
 * Too Good for This Sinful Earth
 * Underestimating Badassery
 * Was It All a Lie
 * We Can Rule Together
 * Why Did You Make Me Hit You
 * Unrequited Love Switcheroo