Japan is densely populated and thoroughly urbanized. Japan’s largest cities teem with tens of millions of souls, mostly human, but with a handful of stranger beings tossed here and there, hidden within the shadows and in the undreamt parallels down lost alleyways.
Black Japan’s heroes are used to a tighter, closer world than their American counterparts. Tokyo, Osaka, Nagasaki and other great cities... [click here for more]
"The massive Lake Biwa occupies nearly 1/3 of Shiga Prefecture's landmass. The lake effect snow makes winters unusually long especially brutal here, and storms are common. Flashing lights split the sky, and heavenly lights are reflected in the lake's hidden depths.....Locals stay away from the shoreline after dog and bring their dogs inside. Nobody talks about it. Only the whorehouses stay open... [click here for more]
This short collection of magic items are all based around school uniforms and some related weapons and accessories.
The entire concept of “School Uniform as armor” was developed to allow players to dress their Black Tokyo adventurers according to anime tropes- save the world, dodge the tentacles, and look super cute doing it! School Uniforms provide a meager AC bonus, but they’re... [click here for more]
“Plastic Hearts”The Plastic Hearts subline is the brainstorm of John Picot and takes Black Tokyo in new, high-tech, cyberpunk directions. It’s a vision of this unique campaign world colored by sci-fi and cyberpunk elements- a robo-fetish present or future for Black Japan.
The Tetsujin are... [click here for more]
Sentai Strike! is a dramatic revision of a pair of older sourcebooks: Sentai Spectacular (Otherverse Games, 2011) and Sentai Sequel (Otherverse Games, 2013). These older sourcebooks explored Sentai adventurers through the lens of a D20 Modern Basic Class with multiple talent trees to choose from. In the interest of making this sourcebook fully compatible with the Pathfinder... [click here for more]
Battlechangers: Ironworks builds on my non-D20 based standalone roleplaying game, Battlechangers (2012) and allows players to construct gigantic, transforming robots fully compatible wit the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Where the original edition of Battlechangers (and the upcoming Generation Two revision) was a comprehensive homage to Transformers with a unique game engine,... [click here for more]