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* DeathByNewberyMedal: Lampshaded like crazy with The Prodigy's general character and story. She's TheAce at anything a normal human can do, but her training and losing [[CharacterCustomization someone or]] [[MyGreatestFailure something]] in her life left her a bitter IceQueen. Even her general quests lampshade this.
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* DeathByNewberyMedal: Lampshaded like crazy with The Prodigy's general character and story. She's TheAce at anything a normal human can do, but her training TrainingFromHell and losing [[CharacterCustomization someone or]] [[MyGreatestFailure something]] in her life left her a bitter IceQueen. Even her general quests lampshade this.
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Adding Death By Newbery Medal. Also, while Entropy II\'s character is highly customizable like almost everyone else, the King of Evil\'s/Principal Entropy I\'s identity is oddly never put into question. He\'s always Entropy and never Attaris. Odd, isn\'t it?
* DeathByNewberyMedal: Lampshaded like crazy with The Prodigy's general character and story. She's TheAce at anything a normal human can do, but her training and losing [[CharacterCustomization someone or]] [[MyGreatestFailure something]] in her life left her a bitter IceQueen. Even her general quests lampshade this.
-->'''[[LampshadeHanging Literary Medal Bait]]''': ''The [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Heartwarming]], [[TearJerker Heart-rending]] [[ComingOfAgeStory Coming-of-Age Stories]] of Natalia Koutolika''
-->'''[[LampshadeHanging Literary Medal Bait]]''': ''The [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Heartwarming]], [[TearJerker Heart-rending]] [[ComingOfAgeStory Coming-of-Age Stories]] of Natalia Koutolika''
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* ImplausibleDeniability: players can twist or bend wounds, both physical and mental. "She turned me into a duck... I got better" is a totally valid statement.
** Also, the official story is that the first Lord Entropy/Lady Attaris decided to suddenly leave the School's operation and jump into an incinerator, despite the current Lord Entropy II/Lady Attaris II's hands constantly dripping their precursor's blood.
** Also, the official story is that the first Lord Entropy/Lady Attaris decided to suddenly leave the School's operation and jump into an incinerator, despite the current Lord Entropy II/Lady Attaris II's hands constantly dripping their precursor's blood.
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* ImplausibleDeniability: players Players can twist or bend wounds, both physical and mental. "She turned me into a duck... I got better" is a totally valid statement.
** ** Also, the official story is that the first Lord Entropy/Lady Attaris Entropy decided to suddenly leave the School's operation and jump into an incinerator, despite the current Lord Entropy II/Lady Attaris II's hands constantly dripping their precursor's blood.
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** Jasmine/Jasper Apocynum very obviously mixed [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] and [[{{FLCL}} Haruko]] into an [[{{Nobilis}} Excrucian]]. You can run, now.
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* ImplausibleDeniability: players can twist or bend wounds, both physical and mental. "She turned me into a duck... I got better" is a totally valid statement.
** Also, the official story is that the first Lord Entropy/Lady Attaris decided to suddenly leave the School's operation and jump into an incinerator, despite the current Lord Entropy II/Lady Attaris II's hands constantly dripping their precursor's blood.
** Also, the official story is that the first Lord Entropy/Lady Attaris decided to suddenly leave the School's operation and jump into an incinerator, despite the current Lord Entropy II/Lady Attaris II's hands constantly dripping their precursor's blood.
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* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: Horizon School has the property "People must accept that what is happening around them is normal", even if that includes a possibly cannibalistic philosopher-ogre teaching class (and a cat -- not a talking cat -- teaching the class before that), the vampires and ghost walking the halls, the Principal's constantly blood-covered hands, or that no more and no less than three events will occur to every student between each class. Chuubo himself (or, in Shokyou's case, herself) is also supernaturally Ordinary in a setting that explicitly refuses to accept such a thing, and hence absolutely does not turn into a snake. Not that it would help, anyway.
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* EvilOverlordList: Going against Rule 34 ([[Rule34 no, not that one]]), is explicitly a bad idea. See ScaledUp, below.
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* EvilOverlordList: Going against Rule 34 ([[Rule34 ([[RuleThirtyFour no, not that one]]), [[GenreSavvy is explicitly a bad idea.idea]]. See ScaledUp, below.
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* EvilOverlordList: Going against Rule 34 ([[Rule34 no, not that one]]), is explicitly a bad idea. See ScaledUp, below.
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* AntiHero: Leonardo de Montreal, whose heroism is at least fifty percent based on proving how much better he is than everyone else.
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** Then there's Leonardo de Montreal's Nightmare Science, which is ''like'' deviant science, only more biological.
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* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: So many of them that it's the actual villainous ones who are unusual and surprising.
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* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: The default assumption for [=PCs=] is that they're around 15 years old and possessed of one or more miraculous abilities. One of the pregen [=PCs=] (the titular Chuubo, AKA The Wishing Boy) is explicitly described as being a totally normal kid, who has a magical engine that grants wishes.
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* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: The default assumption for [=PCs=] is that they're around 15 years old and possessed of one or more miraculous abilities. One of the pregen [=PCs=] (the titular Chuubo, AKA The Wishing Boy) is explicitly described as being a totally normal kid, who has a magical engine that grants wishes.wishes and who occasionally turns into a giant snake.
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* AcademyOfAdventure: The Horizon School, possibly burring the line with AcademyOfEvil if you're in a Gothic game.
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* AcademyOfAdventure: The Horizon School, possibly burring blurring the line with AcademyOfEvil if you're in a Gothic game.
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* ContinuityNod: From {{Nobilis}}. The corebook refers to Lord Entropy, the Iolanthe Septimian, and to Excrucians, among other things.
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* ContinuityNod: From {{Nobilis}}. TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}. The corebook refers to Lord Entropy, the Iolanthe Iolithae Septimian, and to Excrucians, among other things.
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* LittleBitBeastly: Fox-people, or Tengu, that live in Arcadia. Some have the magical power to turn entirely into foxes.
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* LittleBitBeastly: Fox-people, The Tenko, or Tengu, that live in Arcadia. Some shop foxes, have fox-spirit ancestry, giving them both fox and human ears (and sometimes fox tails). They're lithe and agile, and have a touch of elegance and magic. Cutting off their fox ears removes their magic and turns them all the magical power to turn entirely into foxes. way human. They stand out in Town, getting a lot of (positive) attention, which can be a bit of a pain sometimes.
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* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: The default assumption for PCs is that they're around 15 years old and possessed of one or more miraculous abilities. The standard PC character (the titular Chuubo, AKA The Wishing Boy) is explicitly described as being a totally normal kid, who has a magical engine that grants wishes.
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* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: The default assumption for PCs [=PCs=] is that they're around 15 years old and possessed of one or more miraculous abilities. The standard PC character One of the pregen [=PCs=] (the titular Chuubo, AKA The Wishing Boy) is explicitly described as being a totally normal kid, who has a magical engine that grants wishes.
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* YouDirtyRat: Firmly averted. The talking rats of Fortitude are heroes, adventurers, and good friends. Sort of like an entire race of [[ChroniclesOfNarnia Reepicheeps]].
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* YouDirtyRat: Firmly averted. The talking rats of Fortitude are heroes, adventurers, and good friends. Sort of like an entire race of [[ChroniclesOfNarnia [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Reepicheeps]].
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* AcademyOfAdventure: The Horizon School, possibly burring the line with AcademyOfEvil if you're in a Gothic game.
* TheAce: A character type (exemplified by The Prodigy) and quest arc.
* ContinuityNod: From {{Nobilis}}. The corebook refers to Lord Entropy, the Iolanthe Septimian, and to Excrucians, among other things.
* LittleBitBeastly: Fox-people, or Tengu, that live in Arcadia. Some have the magical power to turn entirely into foxes.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: The default assumption for PCs is that they're around 15 years old and possessed of one or more miraculous abilities. The standard PC character (the titular Chuubo, AKA The Wishing Boy) is explicitly described as being a totally normal kid, who has a magical engine that grants wishes.
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* SliceOfLife: The beating heart of the game.
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* SliceOfLife: The beating heart of the game. Slice of Life moments are good for getting XP, regardless of your game's genre.
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* VoidBetweenTheWorlds: The Outside ''used'' to be this, but when the Sun was killed/stolen and brought there, the Void started ''boiling''. On the up side, it's a livelier place now. On the downside, the affected Void ''expanded'', boiling over and covering most of the universe in layers of weird sort-of-quantum-mechanical effects. Town is now the only place left that can be said to genuinely, unambiguously exist.
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* VoidBetweenTheWorlds: The Outside ''used'' to be this, but when the Sun was killed/stolen and brought there, the Void started ''boiling''. On the up side, it's a livelier place now. On the downside, the affected Void ''expanded'', boiling over and covering most of the universe in layers of weird sort-of-quantum-mechanical effects. Town is now the only place left that can be said to genuinely, unambiguously exist.
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* YouDirtyRat: Firmly averted. The talking rats of Fortitude are heroes, adventurers, and good friends.
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* VoidBetweenTheWorlds: The Outside ''used'' to be this, but when the Sun was killed/stolen and brought there, the Void started ''boiling''. On the up side, it's a livelier place now. On the downside, the affected Void ''expanded'', boiling over and covering most of the universe in layers of weird sort-of-quantum-mechanical effects. Town is now the only place left that can be said to genuinely, unambiguously exist.
* YouDirtyRat: Firmly averted. The talking rats of Fortitude are heroes, adventurers, and good friends. Sort of like an entire race of [[ChroniclesOfNarnia Reepicheeps]].
* YouDirtyRat: Firmly averted. The talking rats of Fortitude are heroes, adventurers, and good friends. Sort of like an entire race of [[ChroniclesOfNarnia Reepicheeps]].
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* AcademyOfEvil: Many of the darker characters have studied for a while at the Bleak Academy, out far beyond the world.
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* NonCombatEXP: The quest system, bonus XP emotions, and the generally low violence levels work together to ensure that really ''all'' XP is non-combat XP unless the combat is a plot-relevant action or part of a quest.
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* TheRival: The, um,Rival.Rival, also known as Nightmare's Angel or Leonardo de Montreal.
* TheRoleplayer: Characters advance a ''lot'' faster when properly roleplayed.
* TheRival: The, um,
* TheRoleplayer: Characters advance a ''lot'' faster when properly roleplayed.
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* SealedEvilInACan: The reason the Titovs are so messed up. [[spoiler:It may or may not be Iolithae Septimian.]]
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** Another character trait allows characters to earn XP by being so over-the-top that it leaves the other players speechless. Leonardo de Montreal, Nightmares' Angel, has to take the cake here, going into an AGodAmI rant when explaining why he hadn't bought any more milk after finishing it off.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires of Town typically [[EmotionEater feed on negative emotions]] rather than blood, though there are some who do; even so, they generally object to assault and murder.
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* TheWoobie: Invoked for the Offering you Comfort XP condition. If a character with this condition evokes the impulse to comfort them in the other players, they can get XP.
** StoicWoobie: Invoked for characters with the ''Aww!'' XP condition, who can gain XP from the other players by being both stoic in the face of difficulty, and adorable in how they deal with it.
** StoicWoobie: Invoked for characters with the ''Aww!'' XP condition, who can gain XP from the other players by being both stoic in the face of difficulty, and adorable in how they deal with it.
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* ScaleOfScientificSins: Leonardo checks off every single one.
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* SliceOfLife: The beating heart of the game.
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''Chuubo's'' is intended as a transmedia project, initially focusing on novels and [=RPGs=]. One novel, ''Fable of the Swan'', has been released, [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1710667762/the-chuubos-marvelous-wish-granting-engine-rpg and a Kickstarter is currently in progress]] to fund the release of the RPG corebook and initial supplements, namely, a book covering the region and a campaign book.
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''Chuubo's'' is intended as a transmedia project, initially focusing on novels and [=RPGs=]. One novel, ''Fable of the Swan'', has been released, [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1710667762/the-chuubos-marvelous-wish-granting-engine-rpg and a Kickstarter is currently in progress]] to fund the release of the RPG corebook and initial supplements, namely, a book covering the Fortitude region and a campaign book.
* TheRival: The, um, Rival.
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* TheRival: The, um, Rival.
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* LemonyNarrator: Much like ''Nobilis'' 3e, Jenna's AuthorAvatar serves as narrator.
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* LemonyNarrator: Much like As in ''Nobilis'' 3e, Jenna's AuthorAvatar serves as narrator.narrates.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Typically, the vampires of Town [[EmotionEater feed on negative emotions]] rather than blood, though there are some who do; even so, they generally object to assault and murder.
* PaperThinDisguise: Masks are extremely effective disguises, no matter how small they are.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Typically, the The vampires of Town typically [[EmotionEater feed on negative emotions]] rather than blood, though there are some who do; even so, they generally object to assault and murder.
* PaperThinDisguise: Masks areextremely effective disguises, no matter how small they are.
* PaperThinDisguise: Masks are
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* {{Canon}}: WordOfGod is that the novels aren't "the official setting" in the sense of them being what actually happens; they're a view of the setting like the views people will develop in play, and people are free to accept as much or as little of them as they want for their own games.
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* {{Canon}}: WordOfGod is that the novels aren't "the official setting" in the sense of them their being what actually happens; they're unquestionably happens. They're a view of the setting like the views people will develop in play, and people are free to accept as much or as little of them as they want for their own games.
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''Chuubo's'' is intended as a transmedia project, initially focusing on novels and [=RPGs=]. One novel, ''Fable of the Swan'', has been released, [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1710667762/the-chuubos-marvelous-wish-granting-engine-rpg and a Kickstarter is currently in progress]] to fund the release of the RPG corebook and initial supplements (a Region-book and a campaign).
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'''Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine''' is a tabletop game by Jenna Moran geared towards playing pastoral fantasy, ala the Creator/StudioGhibli movies, ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', or ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. It has its origins in another of Jenna's games, ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'', though in the main part ''Chuubo's'' is its own thing.
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'''Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine''' is a tabletop game by Jenna Moran geared towards playing pastoral fantasy, ala the Creator/StudioGhibli movies, ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', or ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. It has its origins in another of Jenna's games, ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'', though in though, for the main part most part, ''Chuubo's'' is its own thing.
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* {{Expy}}: The Rats of Fortitude are basically an entire culture of [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Reepicheeps]].
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* LargeHam: Anyone with the Larger-Than-Life character trait, which actually earns you XP when people salute or fist-pump after you give a speech. The standout here would be Jasmine "The Ideologue" Apocynum.
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* TheRival: The, um, Rival.
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* EldritchLocation: Every Region of Town has Properties, a set of metaphysical truths about that Region, which can enhance actions taken in accordance with them. The main Regions are Fortitude, Horizon, Arcadia, Big Lake, Little Island, Old Molder, the Walking Fields, and the Outside, though there are sub-Regions, minor Regions, and lost Regions as well.
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* EldritchLocation: Every Region of Town has Properties, a set of metaphysical truths about that Region, which can enhance actions taken in accordance with them. The main Regions are Fortitude, Horizon, Arcadia, Big Lake, Little Island, Bluebell Park, Old Molder, the Walking Fields, and the Outside, though there are sub-Regions, minor Regions, and lost Regions as well.
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''Wishes will come true.''
'''Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine''' is a tabletop game by Jenna Moran geared towards playing pastoral fantasy, ala the Creator/StudioGhibli movies, ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', or ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. It has its origins in another of Jenna's games, ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'', though in the main part ''Chuubo's'' is its own thing.
The setting is a town called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Town]], which is surrounded by multicolored void, situated somewhere that's no true place. It's a nice place to live by all accounts, quiet, peaceful, and sleepy, a place where you can just get on with life, but even so, there are strange and interesting things to get involved with if you look around.
''Chuubo's'' is intended as a transmedia project, initially focusing on novels and [=RPGs=]. One novel, ''Fable of the Swan'', has been released, [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1710667762/the-chuubos-marvelous-wish-granting-engine-rpg and a Kickstarter is currently in progress]] to fund the release of the RPG corebook and initial supplements (a Region-book and a campaign).
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Titov shrine family.
* {{Canon}}: WordOfGod is that the novels aren't "the official setting" in the sense of them being what actually happens; they're a view of the setting like the views people will develop in play, and people are free to accept as much or as little of them as they want for their own games.
* CharacterCustomization: Worthy of note here. All of the pregenerated characters in the campaigns come with a number of variants you can choose from (including [[RuleSixtyThree gender-flipped]]).
* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase / TheFantasticTropeOfWonderousTitles
* TheClan: The shrine families.
* CosyCatastrophe: The sun died. Chaos drowned the world. Then a new sun shone in the sky, and people started picking themselves back up and getting on with their lives. The apocalypse is only as much a thing as any group wants it to be.
* EldritchLocation: Every Region of Town has Properties, a set of metaphysical truths about that Region, which can enhance actions taken in accordance with them. The main Regions are Fortitude, Horizon, Arcadia, Big Lake, Little Island, Old Molder, the Walking Fields, and the Outside, though there are sub-Regions, minor Regions, and lost Regions as well.
* FantasyKitchenSink: Magic, deviant science, robots, {{Charles Atlas Superpower}}s, EnlightenmentSuperpowers, {{eldritch abomination}}s (sometimes as [=PCs=])...
* {{Kaiju}}: Sometimes, the fishermen of Fortitude bring in a kaiju as their catch. Occasionally a PC can turn into a kaiju, or turn others into one.
* LemonyNarrator: Much like ''Nobilis'' 3e, Jenna's AuthorAvatar serves as narrator.
* MadScientist: Deviant scientists are a thing in Town.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The living world and the ghost world are usually separate, but sometimes the two can bleed through into one another.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Typically, the vampires of Town [[EmotionEater feed on negative emotions]] rather than blood, though there are some who do; even so, they generally object to assault and murder.
* PaperThinDisguise: Masks are extremely effective disguises, no matter how small they are.
* ScaledUp: Turning into a giant snake ''does not help'' in ''Chuubo's''. Which is a bit of a problem when that's often one of the Wishing Boy's powers.
* TheWildHunt: The Great Hunt of the Excrucians.
* YouDirtyRat: Firmly averted. The talking rats of Fortitude are heroes, adventurers, and good friends.
* {{Youkai}}: There're a few hundred or so youkai of various sorts in Town.
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'''Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine''' is a tabletop game by Jenna Moran geared towards playing pastoral fantasy, ala the Creator/StudioGhibli movies, ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', or ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. It has its origins in another of Jenna's games, ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'', though in the main part ''Chuubo's'' is its own thing.
The setting is a town called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Town]], which is surrounded by multicolored void, situated somewhere that's no true place. It's a nice place to live by all accounts, quiet, peaceful, and sleepy, a place where you can just get on with life, but even so, there are strange and interesting things to get involved with if you look around.
''Chuubo's'' is intended as a transmedia project, initially focusing on novels and [=RPGs=]. One novel, ''Fable of the Swan'', has been released, [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1710667762/the-chuubos-marvelous-wish-granting-engine-rpg and a Kickstarter is currently in progress]] to fund the release of the RPG corebook and initial supplements (a Region-book and a campaign).
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Titov shrine family.
* {{Canon}}: WordOfGod is that the novels aren't "the official setting" in the sense of them being what actually happens; they're a view of the setting like the views people will develop in play, and people are free to accept as much or as little of them as they want for their own games.
* CharacterCustomization: Worthy of note here. All of the pregenerated characters in the campaigns come with a number of variants you can choose from (including [[RuleSixtyThree gender-flipped]]).
* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase / TheFantasticTropeOfWonderousTitles
* TheClan: The shrine families.
* CosyCatastrophe: The sun died. Chaos drowned the world. Then a new sun shone in the sky, and people started picking themselves back up and getting on with their lives. The apocalypse is only as much a thing as any group wants it to be.
* EldritchLocation: Every Region of Town has Properties, a set of metaphysical truths about that Region, which can enhance actions taken in accordance with them. The main Regions are Fortitude, Horizon, Arcadia, Big Lake, Little Island, Old Molder, the Walking Fields, and the Outside, though there are sub-Regions, minor Regions, and lost Regions as well.
* FantasyKitchenSink: Magic, deviant science, robots, {{Charles Atlas Superpower}}s, EnlightenmentSuperpowers, {{eldritch abomination}}s (sometimes as [=PCs=])...
* {{Kaiju}}: Sometimes, the fishermen of Fortitude bring in a kaiju as their catch. Occasionally a PC can turn into a kaiju, or turn others into one.
* LemonyNarrator: Much like ''Nobilis'' 3e, Jenna's AuthorAvatar serves as narrator.
* MadScientist: Deviant scientists are a thing in Town.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The living world and the ghost world are usually separate, but sometimes the two can bleed through into one another.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Typically, the vampires of Town [[EmotionEater feed on negative emotions]] rather than blood, though there are some who do; even so, they generally object to assault and murder.
* PaperThinDisguise: Masks are extremely effective disguises, no matter how small they are.
* ScaledUp: Turning into a giant snake ''does not help'' in ''Chuubo's''. Which is a bit of a problem when that's often one of the Wishing Boy's powers.
* TheWildHunt: The Great Hunt of the Excrucians.
* YouDirtyRat: Firmly averted. The talking rats of Fortitude are heroes, adventurers, and good friends.
* {{Youkai}}: There're a few hundred or so youkai of various sorts in Town.
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