We are adventurers.

We've been to every place anywhere in the world.

We are adventuring.

We are adventurers.

Hello Heroes and welcome to another exciting episode of one shot. I'm James

Damato, your game master. This week we are continuing our Sailor Moon role

playing experience by crossing over with the Sailor Business Podcast.

Cat and I were so excited to have Jordan and Chris join us for this and I thought it was so much

fun recording with them.

However, that wasn't because of the role-playing system.

So let's dive in a bit.

This officially licensed Sailor Moon role-playing game

that we played came out in 1999.

I think it fell victim to some of the pitfalls

that were common in design of that era.

And there were also a lot of great innovative ideas buried in the system.

The Sailor Moon RPG was built in the Tri-Stat system, which is based on Big Eyes Smallmouth First Edition.

It's supposed to be simpler because it just has three core stats.

However, the sheer number of skills and the granularity of their effects makes it just as complicated as a game that would have a lot of different stats.

There are three different pools of build points that you need in order to build a character. Making it pretty impenetrable even to somebody who has a lot of experience

with RPGs.

And let's not forget, this system was clearly aimed at young girls, so likely this game was supposed to be

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