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Tabletop Game: Bliss Stage
- Ben Lehman

—Back cover copy

Bliss Stage is a tabletop roleplaying game written by Ben Lehman and produced by TAO Games, explicitly intended as his homage to Neon Genesis Evangelion and similar works. It is available at his website, These Are Our Games, with more information at the blog and fansite Love Is My Weapon.

In addition, Tsundere Lightning was recently tapped by the original author for an official Visual Novel adaptation of the game, Bliss Stage: Love Is Your Weapon, which recently launched a Kickstarter page here.

The moment the game begins, malevolent aliens afflict humanity as a whole with The Bliss, a form of stasis locking the adult population of the world into a sleep with apparently blissful dreams, leaving the child and teenaged survivors in a Crapsack World ravaged by occasional attacks by alien terror drones.

A lone, insomniac, and very probably Ax Crazy adult manages to rally the local survivors and, to their enduring astonishment, capture one of the drones. They quickly reverse engineer it into the Alien Numina Inversion Machine, or ANIMa, a machine that converts relationships into a source of Psychic Power taking the form of a Humongous Mecha: The deeper the relationship, the more powerful its weapons. The pilot of this ANIMa needs to be properly Anchored (in a manner similar to the duties of the Operators) by a "trained psychologist," usually just someone who they have a crush on.

Mayhem and extremely complicated romantic entanglements just happen in Bliss Stage - the rules very quickly turn it into either a Bittersweet Ending or something a little more disturbing.

Frequently a Crowning Moment of Awesome and Squick factory.

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