Tsubasa Chronicle HERO

[Michael Hopcroft]

How would one do a HERO campaign based on CALMP's multi-dimensional manga and anime series Tsubasa Reservior Chroncile? (In case you were wondering, the aniem just started in Japan a couple fo weeks ago and several groups are planneing to subtitle it.)

 

Figuring out how to handle the dimensional-travel aspects would be tough. So would the fact that each world might have different verions of the same people.

[Michael Hopcroft]

Re: Tsubasa Chronicle HERO

 

Some thoughts now that I've seen more of the anime:

 

1. The dimension-hopping seems to be under the complete control of Mokona Midori, the fluffy rabbity-thing Yuuko gives the group. So none of the core group needs Extra-Dimensional Movement. However, it does mean that to get between worlds they all have to be in the same place when Mokona does the world-jump. the advanatge is that the most expeisnve abilties of the group can be in the hands on a plot-device NPC.

 

2. Two of the characters (Syaoran and Kurogane) are gifted with "Kudan", beings which grant them protection and attack power. I don't know for sure yet whetehr the Kudan go between worlds with the group, as they are still on their first world at the point in the series to which I have seen.

 

3. Kurogane has a curse that makes him weaker with every person he "murders". The reason Tomoyo-hime sent him on his quest, in fact, was so that he could disocver what "true stregnth" meant. (Kurogane believed he was the strongest man in his world, so Tomoyo-hime sent him away to show him how wrong he was). The deleterious side-effects of him killing someone in cold blood would evidently be permanent -- a characteristic Drain that never recovers, perhaps? it would probably be a weak Drain, as Tomoyo is trying to teach him a lesson rather than kill him outright (if she'd wanted to kill him she could probably have done so easily -- in fact she could have simply ordered him to commit suicide and he probably would have done it -- complaining all the way, of course....)

 

4. Social disadvantages would be difficult to handle in a dimension travel game where different worlds have different rules. However, I would think that such a disadvantage that drvies a character's actions even when spearated from their own world might be playable (although it may be better modeled aas a Psych Lim). An expample of such a Social Lim would be the class distinction between Syaoran and Sakura-hime -- she may not crae, but he painfully aware of the problems involved in being a commoner in love with a princess. which brings me to......

 

5. Syaoran's Price, which gives the series much of its impact. To save Sakura's life, Syaoran had to accept as a condition that her love for him would be gone forever. It is unclear how this would come into play, but it lends an air of tragedy to the entire enterprise. Syaoran has sacrificed EVERYTHING -- his world, his future, his only hope for happiness -- because he would rather see Sakura-hime live without him than watch her die.

[Michael Hopcroft]

Re: Tsubasa Chronicle HERO

 

Some other notes:

 

1. Mokona Midori also seems to be a sort of translator. Any dimensional traveler who si within a certain raidus of him can undertsand anything said to them by anyone. This extreemly useful since Syaoran, Kurogane and Fai all speak different langauages. (Although when they are all speaking their own tounges it is Syaoran who is portrayed as speaking Japanese, I doubt he actually is given that he has only been to modern Japan once for the span of about fifteen minutes.)

 

2. Sakura-hime seems to have some sort of unconscious power that prevents even evil people from wishing to harm her. or perhaps that is a function of her personality. If Sakura-hime were any sweeter she'd come with a warning to diabetics. (Incidentally the one was to piss her off is to call her "hime" or "hime-sama", as she utterly despises formal speech. of course, at this point in the sotry she might not even remmeber that she is a princess.)