History TabletopGame / ChuubosMarvelousWishGrantingEngine

''Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine'' is a tabletop game by Jenna Moran geared mainly towards playing pastoral slice-of-life fantasy, ala Creator/StudioGhibli movies, ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', or ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship is Magic]]'', although gameplay is flexible enough to cover a wide variety of genres and story styles, even to works as complicated as ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' or as symbolism-ridden as ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''. It has its origins in another of Jenna's games, ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'', and some of its tone comes from her [[Literature/HitherbyDragons Hitherby Dragons]] project, but for the most part, ''Chuubo's'' is its own thing.

* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu? / PalsWithJesus: Much less blatant than in Nobilis, despite the same potential for regularly meeting and being friends with gods and miraculous beings of all sorts. Though some canonical characters know or ''are'' gods of some sort, it usually doesn't get acknowledged. For instance, the Child of the Sun is the new resident sun god of Town, but she's not even aware of it.

''Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine'' is a tabletop game by Jenna Moran geared mainly towards playing pastoral slice-of-life fantasy, ala Creator/StudioGhibli movies, ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', or ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship is Magic]]'', although gameplay is flexible enough to cover a wide variety of genres and story styles, even to works as complicated as ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' or as symbolism-ridden as ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''. It has its origins in another of Jenna's games, ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' and some of it's tone comes from [[HitherbyDragons Hitherby Dragons]], though for the most part, ''Chuubo's'' is its own thing.

''Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine'' is a tabletop game by Jenna Moran geared mainly towards playing pastoral slice-of-life fantasy, ala Creator/StudioGhibli movies, ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', or ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship is Magic]]'', although gameplay is flexible enough to cover a wide variety of genres and story styles, even to works as complicated as ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' or as symbolism-ridden as ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''. It has its origins in another of Jenna's games, ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'', though, for the most part, ''Chuubo's'' is its own thing.

* 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 and who occasionally turns into a giant snake.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Titov shrine family.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment / RealityIsOutToLunch: [[invoked]] Played dead straight with Breaks from Reality, which are intrusions of other world's laws unto our own. They cover anything from [[DisneyAcidSequence dissociations from reality]], [[SurrealHorror people growing extra limbs or having their faces melt off]], [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong sudden musical numbers]], [[TransformationSequence Transformation Sequences]] and summonings of HumongousMecha. That is to say, they're elements of {{Spectacle}} and the like that ''really happen'', not just for the purposes of the entertainment of the audience. [[InAndOutOfCharacter In-Character]], this is ''weird'' [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext even for the context]] [[FantasyKitchenSink of the game]].

* Troperiffic: Consciously done. This game revels in including tropes from many genres and settings while at the same time making sense of it.

** CompleteImmortality: Some miraculous Arc (Child of the Ash, Keeper of Gardens, Creature of Light and Primordial) grant this. A character with this Immortality cannot be hurt at all or even age unless they desire it. Only extremely damaging things like nuclear explosions, high-level miracles and Imperial Miracles can bypass it, and even then they can regenerate from this damage more quickly than anyone else.

* TheAce: A character type (exemplified by The Prodigy) and miraculous Arc. At their peak, a character with TheAce can do physically impossible feats such as surfing on sound waves, running faster than light and punching out characters out of movies.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment / RealityIsOutToLunch: Played dead straight with Breaks from Reality, which are intrusions of other world's laws unto our own. They cover anything from [[DisneyAcidSequence dissociations from reality]], [[SurrealHorror people growing extra limbs or having their faces melt off]], [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong sudden musical numbers]], [[TransformationSequence Transformation Sequences]] and summonings of HumongousMecha. That is to say, they're elements of {{Spectacle}} and the like that ''really happen'', not just for the purposes of the entertainment of the audience. [[InAndOutOfCharacter In-Character]], this is ''weird'' [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext even for the context]] [[FantasyKitchenSink of the game]].

* TheRival: The, um, Rival, also known as Nightmares' Angel or Leonardo de Montreal.

** Ironically, the Shopping District, whose other ''name'' is Arcadia, is ''not'' this trope.

* AcademyOfAdventure: The Horizon School, possibly blurring the line with AcademyOfEvil if you're in a Gothic game.

* FantasyKitchenSink: Magic, deviant science, robots, {{Charles Atlas Superpower}}s, EnlightenmentSuperpowers, {{eldritch abomination}}s (sometimes as [=PCs=])...

* EldritchAbomination: Several. A number of them are known as "Mysteries", and are fought by the rats of Fortitude using their cunning and knowledge. They may have previously been [[TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}} Abhorrent Weapons]].
** HumanoidAbomination: The Riders are this in general, and are generally noticeable because in place of their eyes there is the night and falling stars. However, due to the metaphysical changes in reality that occurred when the sun died, many are rather benevolent and don't want to unmake reality or Town anymore.

* MakeAWish: As one would expect from the title, Wishes play a big part in the setting, and they are powered by the wishing power of the heart (Miracle Points, or [=MPs=]), although their source is not just limited to the Marvelous-Wish Granting Engine. No matter how world-changing or impossible, a wish can make it happen. A big part of wishes is dealing with their aftermath, and the rules go deep into detail on how to handle them.

* TheNothingAfterDeath: The Bleak Academy is sort of a metaphor for this trope, along the Far and Sunless Land.

''Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine'' is a tabletop game by Jenna Moran geared mainly towards playing pastoral slice-of-life fantasy, ala Creator/StudioGhibli movies, ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', or ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship is Magic]]'' although gameplay is flexible enough to cover a wide variety of genres and story styles, even to works as complicated as ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' or as symbolism-ridden as ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''. It has its origins in another of Jenna's games, ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'', though, for the most part, ''Chuubo's'' is its own thing.

''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, for the most part, ''Chuubo's'' is its own thing.

''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, for the most part, ''Chuubo's'' is its own thing.

* DeathByOriginStory / CameBackStrong: Fortitude [=PCs=] in "The Glass-Maker's Dragon". You die and come back on a miraculous Arc.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: So many of them that it's the actual villainous ones who are unusual and surprising.

* LemonyNarrator: As in ''Nobilis'' 3e, Jenna's AuthorAvatar narrates.

* MakeAWish: Wishes are powered by the wishing power of the heart ([=MPs=]), and can potentially make ''anything'' happen. They're not limited to the Wish-Granting Engine, either.

* TheAce: A character type (exemplified by The Prodigy) and Miraculous Arc. At their peak, a character with TheAce can do physically impossible feats such as surfing on sound waves, running faster than light and punching out characters out of movies.

* DeathByOriginStory: Fortitude [=PCs=] in "The Glass-Maker's Dragon". You die and come back on a miraculous arc.

** HumanoidAbomination: The Riders are this in general, and are generally noticeable because in place of their eyes there is the night and falling stars. However, due to the metaphysical changes in reality that ocurred when the sun died, many are rather benevolent and don't want to unmake reality or Town anymore.
* ElementalPowers: Characters on the Spiritual Miraculous Arc slowly obtain knowledge, creation, destruction and control over a particular element, although it's usually something local or specific as compared to the TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}} counterpart of this ability, which was cosmic in scope.

* TheFairFolk: The Miraculous Arc Creature of Fable makes a character more like a creature from a fairy tale or mythology, with the ability to do stuff in-between scenes, have an iconic appearance and become a supernatural hunter. The overall thematic fits that of the Fair Folk.

* FisherKing: A main characteristic of the A Keeper of Gardens Miraculous Arc - a character takes dominion over one or more areas (Gardens) and is able to shape everything in them like it was made of clay, creating guides and guardians and even bringing things to life.

* OneWingedAngel: Characters on the Child of the Ash Miraculous Arc gain an alternate form and the ability to turn into a giant creature of some sort, usually a giant robot or a snake in the case of Chuubo. Not that it'd help or anything.

* PowerAtAPrice: Wounds can grant temporary abilities so long as there's some kind of drawback to them. Taken one step further with the Miraculous Arc Wounded Angel, which allows you to ritually bind your wounds and obtain several miraculous abilities from them, as exemplified by Leonardo de Montreal.
* PowerOfTheVoid: Characters on the Accursed Miraculous Arc obtain an ability called the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast World-Breaker's Hand]], which allows them to completely destroy or banish anything from the world with a thought or a wave of their hand.
* RealityWarping: All characters with access to miraculous abilities can do this, honestly, but the ones who do it most blatantly are the ones with access to the Miraculous Arc Reality Syndrome - which allows them some variant power of a Wish, such as the titular Wish-Granting Engine.

** Billy Sovereign, the bully, is this to Seizhi. He is to Leonardo as Seizhi is to Chuubo, only with an antagonistic relationship instead of being close friends. He is everything Seizhi is not: Brutal, a jerk, angry, resentful and [[HumanoidAbomination he doesn't technically exist or is aware of what it's like to do so]]. Even his abilities are a mirror to Seizhi's: where Seizhi has Existing as a skill, Billy has Survive (it's what allowed him to survive being burned alive by Leonardo), and both have the same Miraculous Arc as well.

* TheAce: A character type (exemplified by The Prodigy) and quest arc.

* 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 ghosts 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.

''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.

-->'''[[LampshadeHanging Literary Medal Bait]]''': ''The [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Heartwarming]], [[TearJerker Heart-rending]][[ComingOfAgeStory Coming-of-Age Stories]] of Natalia Koutolika''

* EvilOverlordList: Going against Rule 34 ([[RuleThirtyFour no, not that one]]), [[GenreSavvy is explicitly a bad idea]]. See ScaledUp, below.

** Jasmine/Jasper Apocynum very obviously mixed [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] and [[{{FLCL}} Haruko]] into an [[{{Nobilis}} Excrucian]]. You can run, now.

** Also, the official story is that the first Lord 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.

* 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.

* TheRival: The, um, Rival, also known as Nightmare's Angel or Leonardo de Montreal.

* DeathByNewberyMedal: Lampshaded like crazy with The Prodigy's general character and story. She's TheAce at anything a normal human can do, but her TrainingFromHell 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''