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