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Eldritch Escape: Tokyo TRPG
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January 1, 2026
You've just died. You remember it viscerally. A strange creature ripped you to pieces. But now you're alive and there's a weird entity calling themselves Bellwether possession your most treasured possession (or person) telling you that you have to hunt these extremely dangerous creatures. And, now that you've died? You've suddenly noticed that the sun hasn't come up in seven years and your home town is crawling with these extra-dimensional creatures that no one else can see that eat humans with impunity.
It's ok. They can bring you back when you die. But it's going to change you..
This is the core conceit of the game. Wake up, fight monsters, die, repeat. And that Bellwether thing? Seems to have their own agenda..
Eldritch Escape: Tokyo is a japanese ttrpg available in English for the first time. The localization work is ok. There are some pages that read oddly and feel like they aren't conveying things correctly. The text is often quite glib for a very dark game. But it conveys the mechanics well enough.
EE:T has one of the most interesting combat systems I've seen. There's is a 6 square grid around the monster representing its various sides and you move from zone to zone and attack. The monster has pre-set behavior and reactions based on what the player does and it's up to the player to learn them by trial and error. This combined with the revival mechanic make this game do Dark Souls better than Dark Souls's own TTRPG. The game is explicitly designed for one-gm-one-player which is often the best way to go for a horror TTRPG.
The interior artwork is sparse but stunning. The game is intended to set in a city the player and GM know well. It was designed for Tokyo but you need to have a sense of the familiar turned upside down to run this game. Each piece of monster art places the beast in a famous Tokyo landmark which is a nice touch.
Who would have thought Bloodborne + Madoka Magica would be such a good combination?
It's ok. They can bring you back when you die. But it's going to change you..
This is the core conceit of the game. Wake up, fight monsters, die, repeat. And that Bellwether thing? Seems to have their own agenda..
Eldritch Escape: Tokyo is a japanese ttrpg available in English for the first time. The localization work is ok. There are some pages that read oddly and feel like they aren't conveying things correctly. The text is often quite glib for a very dark game. But it conveys the mechanics well enough.
EE:T has one of the most interesting combat systems I've seen. There's is a 6 square grid around the monster representing its various sides and you move from zone to zone and attack. The monster has pre-set behavior and reactions based on what the player does and it's up to the player to learn them by trial and error. This combined with the revival mechanic make this game do Dark Souls better than Dark Souls's own TTRPG. The game is explicitly designed for one-gm-one-player which is often the best way to go for a horror TTRPG.
The interior artwork is sparse but stunning. The game is intended to set in a city the player and GM know well. It was designed for Tokyo but you need to have a sense of the familiar turned upside down to run this game. Each piece of monster art places the beast in a famous Tokyo landmark which is a nice touch.
Who would have thought Bloodborne + Madoka Magica would be such a good combination?
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