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{{quote|'''[[Present Day Present Time|Right now,]]''' [[Present Day|the moment you began reading this]], [[The End of the World as We Know It|Humanity is devastated]] [[Alien Invasion|by an alien attack]] [[Take Our Word for It|from the edges of our understanding.]]
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'''''[http://www.tao-games.com/bliss-stage/ Bliss Stage]''''' is a 2011 tabletop roleplaying game written by Ben Lehman and produced by TAO Games, explicitly intended as his homage to ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' and similar works such as ''[[Bokurano]]'' and ''[[RahXephon]]''. It is available at his website, [http://www.tao-games.com These Are Our Games,] with more information at the blog and fansite [https://web.archive.org/web/20191124122418/http://loveismyweapon.com/ Love Is My Weapon.]▼
▲{{quote|'''[[Present Day Present Time|Right now,]]''' [[Present Day|the moment you began reading this]], [[The End of the World as We Know It|Humanity is devastated]] [[Alien Invasion|by an alien attack]] [[Take Our Word for It|from the edges of our understanding.]]}}
▲{{quote|'''[[Crapsack World|It is the first blow of a terrible war.]]''' [[Time Skip|Seven years later,]] [[Applied Phlebotinum|armed with technology]] [[Black Box|you cannot comprehend]] [[How Do I Shot Web?|and can barely operate,]] [[Final Battle|you will strike back.]]}}
▲{{quote|'''''[[Level Up At Intimacy 5|This is how.]]'''''|Back cover copy}}
▲'''[http://www.tao-games.com/bliss-stage/ Bliss Stage]''' is a 2011 tabletop roleplaying game written by Ben Lehman and produced by TAO Games, explicitly intended as his homage to ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' and similar works such as ''[[Bokurano]]'' and ''[[RahXephon]]''. It is available at his website, [http://www.tao-games.com These Are Our Games,] with more information at the blog and fansite [https://web.archive.org/web/20191124122418/http://loveismyweapon.com/ Love Is My Weapon.]
In addition, [[Tropers/Tsundere Lightning|Tsundere Lightning]] was recently [[Promoted Fanboy|tapped by the original author]] for an official [[Visual Novel]] adaptation of the game, [[Bliss Stage: Love Is Your Weapon]], which recently launched a Kickstarter page [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1041711353/bliss-stage-visual-novel?ref=category here].
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* [[108]]: [[Word of God]] has it that this is the reason the game ends when you go over 108 Bliss.▼
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Both averted and played straight, in different ways. The economy and infrastructure of the civilized world collapses without the adults, but the PCs are all teenagers and the Authority Figure is inevitably a [[Magnificent Bastard]] at best and a [[Jerkass]] at worst.
* [[Animesque]]: An unusual example. While there's no art or animation, [[Word of God|Ben Lehman]] listed ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', ''[[Macross]]'' and ''[[RahXephon]]'' as influences, and the influence of Japanese tropes is evident.
* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: the ANIMa, big time.
* [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]: One of the possible results of the endgame.
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* [[Promotion to Parent]]: To be expected when the world suddenly loses all adults.
* [[Psychic Powers]]: Mechanically significant combat takes place entirely in a bizarre dream-world.
▲* [[108]]: [[Word of God]] has it that this is the reason the game ends when you go over 108 Bliss.
* [[Only Fatal to Adults]]: The Bliss. Specifically, it's only fatal if you turn eighteen.
* [[Relationship Values]]: There are six stats in the game. Three of them are [[Relationship Values]] - [[Level Up At Intimacy 5|Intimacy,]] [[You Lose At Zero Trust|Trust]] and [[You Lose At Zero Trust|Stress.]] [[Gainax Ending|And the other three measure]] [[Lotus Eater Machine|how screwed your Pilot is.]]
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* [[Tsundere]]: Anna Lin in the running examples and introductory adventure.
* [[Teenage Wasteland]]
* [[The Virus]]: The Bliss had serious overtones of this, [[Present Day|before the before time.]]▼
* [[This Is Not a Drill]]: Uttered in the example first action.
▲* [[The Virus]]: The Bliss had serious overtones of this, [[Present Day|before the before time.]]
* [[Word Salad Title]]: While it may seem like this, the trope is averted: the name is a reference to the "Bliss Stage" of a relationship - basically, the psychological term for the honeymoon period.
* [[Write Who You Know]]: The rules suggest naming Anchors after the players' unrequited crushes from when they were the age of their Pilot characters. It's also pointed out that using the name of someone you still know would be rather creepy, considering [[Level Up At Intimacy 5|certain]] [[Deus Sex Machina|mechanics]].
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