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[[Bliss Stage]] is a 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 [http://www.loveismyweapon.com Love Is My Weapon.]
'''Bliss Stage''' is a 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 [http://www.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].
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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A lone, insomniac, and very probably [[Ax Crazy]] adult manages to [[La Résistance|rally the local survivors]] and, to their enduring astonishment, capture one of the drones. They quickly reverse engineer it into the [[Applied Phlebotinum|Alien Numina Inversion Machine,]] or [[Fun with Acronyms|ANIMa]], a machine that [[The Power of Love|converts relationships]] into a source of [[Psychic Power]] [[Rule of Cool|taking the form of a]] [[Humongous Mecha]]: [[Level Up At Intimacy 5|The deeper the relationship, the more powerful its weapons.]] The pilot of this ANIMa needs to be properly Anchored [[The Matrix|(in a manner similar to the duties of the Operators)]] by a [[Informed Ability|"trained psychologist,"]] usually just someone who they have a crush on.
A lone, insomniac, and very probably [[Ax Crazy]] adult manages to [[La Résistance|rally the local survivors]] and, to their enduring astonishment, capture one of the drones. They quickly reverse engineer it into the [[Applied Phlebotinum|Alien Numina Inversion Machine,]] or [[Fun with Acronyms|ANIMa]], a machine that [[The Power of Love|converts relationships]] into a source of [[Psychic Power]] [[Rule of Cool|taking the form of a]] [[Humongous Mecha]]: [[Level Up At Intimacy 5|The deeper the relationship, the more powerful its weapons.]] The pilot of this ANIMa needs to be properly Anchored [[The Matrix|(in a manner similar to the duties of the Operators)]] by a [[Informed Ability|"trained psychologist,"]] usually just someone who they have a crush on.


The game being a [[Deconstruction]] of [[The Power of Love]], a pilot's ANIMa is powered by their relationships with other characters, so [[Love Dodecahedron|extremely complicated romantic entanglements]] ''just happen'' in [[Bliss Stage]]. In addition, each pilot accumulates Bliss throughout the game, eventually reaching [[108]] Bliss, whereupon they either die or leave the game. Endings are often [[Bittersweet Ending|bittersweet]] or [[Gainax Ending|a little more disturbing]].
The game being a [[Deconstruction]] of [[The Power of Love]], a pilot's ANIMa is powered by their relationships with other characters, so [[Love Dodecahedron|extremely complicated romantic entanglements]] ''just happen'' in '''Bliss Stage'''. In addition, each pilot accumulates Bliss throughout the game, eventually reaching [[108]] Bliss, whereupon they either die or leave the game. Endings are often [[Bittersweet Ending|bittersweet]] or [[Gainax Ending|a little more disturbing]].
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* [[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.
* [[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.
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* [[More Friends, More Benefits]]: Former [[Trope Namer]]. The path to [[More Dakka]] in this game is wrapping your Pilot in a [[Love Dodecahedron]] of ludicrous proportions.
* [[More Friends, More Benefits]]: Former [[Trope Namer]]. The path to [[More Dakka]] in this game is wrapping your Pilot in a [[Love Dodecahedron]] of ludicrous proportions.
* [[Moe Couplet]]: Sara and Josh. [[Memetic Mutation|Their love is so innocent.]] This in a relentlessly [[Grimdark]] game.
* [[Moe Couplet]]: Sara and Josh. [[Memetic Mutation|Their love is so innocent.]] This in a relentlessly [[Grimdark]] game.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: The Bliss in general -- and Josh Preston's father, the Authority Figure of [[La Résistance]] in the continuing examples, who ''didn't look for him'' after the Bliss hit in particular.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: The Bliss in general—and Josh Preston's father, the Authority Figure of [[La Résistance]] in the continuing examples, who ''didn't look for him'' after the Bliss hit in particular.
* [[Present Day Present Time]]: This is when the Bliss hits, while the actual gameplay takes place [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]].
* [[Present Day Present Time]]: This is when the Bliss hits, while the actual gameplay takes place [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]].
* [[Promotion to Parent]]: To be expected when the world suddenly loses all adults.
* [[Promotion to Parent]]: To be expected when the world suddenly loses all adults.
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