''Tenchi Muyo!'' is a role-playing game published by

Guardians of Order Guardians of Order was a Canadian company founded in 1996 by Mark C. MacKinnon in Guelph, Ontario. The company's business output consisted of role-playing games (RPGs). Their first game is the anime inspired '' Big Eyes, Small Mouth''. In 2006 Gu ...

in 2000, based on the 1992 ''Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki'' (天地無用! 魎皇鬼) anime series.

Description

''Tenchi Muyo!'' is a role-playing game that uses the

Tri-Stat System Guardians of Order was a Canadian company founded in 1996 by Mark C. MacKinnon in Guelph, Ontario. The company's business output consisted of role-playing games (RPGs). Their first game is the anime inspired ''Big Eyes, Small Mouth''. In 2006 Gua ...

of role-playing game rules. Players can take on the roles of any of the main characters in the anime series, even the villains. Alternatively players can make up their own characters.

Publication history

In 1992,

Masaki Kajishima Masaki Kajishima (梶島正樹 ''Kajishima Masaki'', born March 16, 1962) is a Japanese animator and storyboard artist who works for AIC in a freelance capacity. He is best known as the creator of ''Tenchi Muyo!'' and ''Dual! Parallel Trouble Ad ...

created the six-part

OVA , abbreviated as OVA and sometimes as OAV (original animation video), are Japanese animated films and special episodes of a series made specially for release in home video formats without prior showings on television or in theaters, though the ...

''Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki''. In 2000,

acquired the license to create a role-playing game. David L. Pulver, who had worked on a number of licensed, standalone games for Guardians of Order, also designed this 200-page softcover book, with contributions by Karen McLarney, and artwork by McLarney and Jeff Mackintosh. It was published in 2000.

Reception

''Tenchi Muyo!'' was reviewed in the online second version of ''

Pyramid A pyramid () is a structure whose visible surfaces are triangular in broad outline and converge toward the top, making the appearance roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense. The base of a pyramid can be of any polygon shape, such as trian ...

'' which said "Based on the Tri-Stat system (first published in ''Big Eyes, Small Mouth''), ''TM!RPGaRB'' is a complete RPG. You don't have to buy anything else to dive into the game. This may cause some grumbling from those who don't want to buy multiple versions of the same game mechanics, but for licenses such as this it makes perfect sense."

Reviews

*''The Guildsman'', Issue 7 (Fall 2000)

References

{{Tenchi Muyo! Canadian role-playing games Fantasy role-playing games based on anime and manga Guardians of Order games Role-playing games introduced in 2000 Tenchi Muyo!