Tenchi Muyo! Role-Playing Game and Resource Book

Guardians of Order continues to produce top-notch books that work well whether you are a gamer or just a fan of the cartoon series that they are adapting/describing.This release describes the "Tenchi universe" as it appears in the original animated series (and the follow-on, excellent graphic novels), and it does an excellent job of describing the characters, the setting, and the storylines. The simple and versitile game mechanics that are featured in all Guardians of Order anime adaptation games once again do a cracker-jack job at simulating the characters and action of the series.The selection of images from the animated series are also reproduced with excellent quality. (I faulted an early effort from Guardians for its murky reproductions--I have no such complaints to offer with this volume! The full-color pages and stills are stunning to look at!)I recommend this book highly, whether you're a gamer or just a Tenchi fan. (Heck, I recommend this game if you're a gamer who's never heard of the Tenchi franchise; this book is chock-ful of ideas for a lighthearted science fantasy setting/game.

Not only does the book have a timeline of the episodes, bios on all major and minor characters, but it also has a great, easy-to-learn game system. 500 full color images, a chapter on Japan and the settings of the Tenchi Universe and a GM chapter with two small games already made for you to start with.

well i think this book is brill a must have for all tenchi muyo fans and i think the Ryoko section is of extremally high quallity but the aeka section could be inproved for more reader intrest but overall this is a great book also it makes a great imaganetive feeling like you are really talking to ryoko, sasami,mahoshi and wahuu it came to a real suprise when i read that washuu was ryokos genetic mother come on she looks nothing like her but anyway this proves a great lot of imaganetiveness has been put in to writeing this book and all the tenchi muyo ideas are very origanal a well planed book i rate it 5 stars

Thorough is an understatement. This book really does a great job of analyzing the Tenchi OAV and putting it all down on paper. A great resource that will greatly add to your enjoyment of Tenchi, and help you understand it better. Plus, the hundreds of full color photos aren't anything to sneeze at.As for the RPGing aspect of it, well I haven't exactly gotten that far yet. I really need to sit down & read the whole thing straight through before I'll comment on the mechanics. But then again, I had trouble picking up the mechanics to Paranoia, 2nd edition (one of the easiest to use RPGs ever, and then some), so I'm not one to comment.Overall, a really great buy and worth the price.