{"id":89,"date":"2013-06-19T02:01:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T02:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2022-12-18T10:21:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T10:21:51","slug":"doublecross-in-english-preorder-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Doublecross in English: Preorder Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doublecross, one of my favorite Japanese RPGs of all times, is now available in English, through Amazon!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Double Cross Role-playing Game - Core Rulebook (Double Cross Role-playing Game)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"620\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_MY5YLPrzozh24n&#038;asin=0615708110&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A note from the publisher, though:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/101235997413051519555\/posts\/E1uszhzQeYS<\/p>\n<p>Please treat these as a preorder, and give him some time to fulfill them. The books are set to arrive any day now.<\/p>\n<p>Doublecross 3rd edition is the latest and greatest version of one of my favorite RPGs. The best way to describe it is as a very story-focused &#8220;Japanese X-Men&#8221;. I think it refers to itself as &#8220;Dark Conspiracy Action&#8221;, and it&#8217;s that in equal amounts: The conspiracy stuff is baked into the setting, and the action is baked into the rules: All the rules are pretty much geared towards the &#8220;Effects&#8221;, or character powers, which reside under &#8220;Syndromes&#8221;, or power sets. So my character might have the syndromes Salamander and Hanuman, which are the domains of Fire Control and Speed (respectively), and a number of Effects\/powers under each.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a d10 dice pool system with just a little bit of math involved in each roll (tallying the number totals on pools of dice), but it&#8217;s fast and solid. The power sets are evocative and awesome. The story-focused play keeps you tied socially to the other players, with the major NPCs in your life offering you strength so you don&#8217;t &#8220;turn to the dark side&#8221; (but as relationships, they can be burned to keep you alive, basically flipping from Lois Lane to Lex Luthor types in the process).<\/p>\n<p>Also, KH Shu, the translator, basically didn&#8217;t just translate and sell one book in the series, he combined at least three Japanese releases (Rulebooks 1 and 2, and I believe another, likely the Advanced Rulebook) together into one massive English tome.<\/p>\n<p>If you like X-Men style young supers, Exalted-like Charms (for combos, etc, but without Exalted&#8217;s &#8220;massive amounts of dice ultimately doing nothing&#8221; effect), and dark conspiracy\/betrayal, this game is totally for you.<\/p>\n<p>I ordered four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doublecross, one of my favorite Japanese RPGs of all times, is now available in English, through Amazon! A note from the publisher, though: https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/101235997413051519555\/posts\/E1uszhzQeYS Please treat these as a preorder, and give him some time to fulfill them. The books &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/?p=89\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}