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OVA is a Role-Playing Game (RPG) where players collaboratively create a story by crafting unique characters, known as Player Characters (PCs), without the traditional win/lose mechanics. Players can embody various personas and navigate through different narratives, including combat, romance, or mystery, guided by specific rules. The game emphasizes character development and decision-making, allowing players to immerse themselves in their roles and the unfolding story.

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OVA is a Role-Playing Game (RPG) where players collaboratively create a story by crafting unique characters, known as Player Characters (PCs), without the traditional win/lose mechanics. Players can embody various personas and navigate through different narratives, including combat, romance, or mystery, guided by specific rules. The game emphasizes character development and decision-making, allowing players to immerse themselves in their roles and the unfolding story.

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What Kind of Game Is This?

The Role of the Player


OVA is a specific kind of game called a As a Player, you get to craft your own
Role-Playing Game. If you’ve never played unique persona, or Player Character (PC),
an RPG before, it might be a little different to portray during the game. Depending on
from other games you’re used to. There’s the kind of setting you all agree upon, you
no winning or losing, no optimum choices could be a fierce mercenary, a cute magical
or preferred strategies. Instead, you and girl, a geeky gadgeteer, a brooding sorcerer,
your friends are working together to cre- or even a typical high school student.
ate a story, one grounded in the tropes This book will guide you in detailing
and ideas of Japanese animation. With the your character’s past, personality, talents,
rules as a guide, you create characters that and faults with special descriptors called
live in this world, acting out their hopes Abilities and Weaknesses. These statistics
and fears as they face conflict, overcome will aid you in portraying your character
adversity, and fulfill their destinies. There in the game and determine what you can
are also rules for fighting that allow you do. Throughout play, you will describe
to unleash the flashy attacks and powers what your character does and make deci-
you’ve come to know and love from an- sions on their behalf. Remember, you are
ime…or not. There’s no one kind of story not you, you are your character!
you can tell, and if that happens to forgo You might take up arms with your
fiery explosions for romantic escapades, friends and fight off the evil wizard, ex-
political intrigue, or slapstick comedy, plore beyond the strange door you swear
that’s okay, too! wasn’t there yesterday, or investigate the
When you sit down to play a game of neighborhood for clues to that mysterious
OVA, you take on one of two roles, that of disappearance. What happens next is up
a Player or that of the Game Master. to you!
INTRODUCTION

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