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''In retrospect, men appreciate that it was a colourful apocalypse.'' |
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''Big Eyes Small Mouth'' is a multi-genre roleplaying game created by the now-defunct Guardians of Order. Conceived as a system to allow people to play out games in the style of anime series, it was first released at [[Gen Con]] in 1997. The name comes from a common generalization of the typical anime and manga character designs, which have proportionately large eyes and small mouths. |
''[[Big Eyes, Small Mouth]]'' (aka ''BESM'') is a multi-genre roleplaying game created by the now-defunct [[Guardians of Order.]] Conceived as a system to allow people to play out games in the style of anime series, it was first released at [[Gen Con]] in 1997. The name comes from a common generalization of the typical anime and manga character designs, which have proportionately large eyes and small mouths. |
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A number of supplemental rule books have been released, with additional rules and character creation options to provide specific advice for running games in a certain genre. For instance, the supplement ''Hot Rods and Gun Bunnies'' contains information on running a ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'' or ''[[Riding Bean]]''-style game, while ''Big Robots, Cool Starships'' has rules for designing [[Humongous Mecha|Mecha]] running [[Space Opera]]-style games. Most of the extras in the supplements were folded into the second edition of ''BESM''. |
A number of supplemental rule books have been released, with additional rules and character creation options to provide specific advice for running games in a certain genre. For instance, the supplement ''Hot Rods and Gun Bunnies'' contains information on running a ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'' or ''[[Riding Bean]]''-style game, while ''Big Robots, Cool Starships'' has rules for designing [[Humongous Mecha|Mecha]] running [[Space Opera]]-style games. Most of the extras in the supplements were folded into the second edition of ''BESM''. |
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There were two other kinds of supplements produced by Guardians of Order. Stand-alone game worlds such as ''Uresia: The Grave of Heaven'' and ''Centauri Knights'', and licensed supplements based on various anime series, such as ''[[Slayers]]'', ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' and ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. Licensed supplements that were mostly or completely background information about the show's world were released with the misleading title of "Ultimate Fan Guide". |
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''BESM'' uses ''Guardians of Order's'' Tri-Stat system, and was their flagship product for that system. Characters are defined by three statistics: Body, Mind and Soul, as well as a number of Attributes and Defects. Tri-stat is a [[Point Buy System]]. A [[D20 System]] version of the game has also been released. |
''BESM'' uses ''Guardians of Order's'' Tri-Stat system, and was their flagship product for that system. Characters are defined by three statistics: Body, Mind and Soul, as well as a number of Attributes and Defects. Tri-stat is a [[Point Buy System]]. A [[D20 System]] version of the game has also been released. Guardians Of Order had a third edition of ''BESM'' ready when it collapsed. The rights were sold to the game company White Wolf, which published it (for a short while anyway; the now discontinued third edition book sells for over $100 on the Internet, but you can buy .pdfs) and now provides what support remains for the Tri-Stat system. |
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See also [[Silver Age Sentinels]], GOO's superhero RPG that used a similar rules system. |
See also ''[[Silver Age Sentinels]]'', GOO's superhero RPG that used a similar rules system. |
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* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: the amount of art that exhibits this would be surprising were it dealing with any other genre. Even hardcore mercenaries show up with their midriffs bared. |
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: the amount of art that exhibits this would be surprising were it dealing with any other genre. Even hardcore mercenaries show up with their midriffs bared. |
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* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: The Dimensional Portal attribute uses this trope by name. |
* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: The Dimensional Portal attribute uses this trope by name. |