BREAK!! A Ghibli inspired Tabletop RPG, and my experiences with the genre.
I'm not really a tabletop guy until recently. For most of my life, the genre was treated as that thing nerdy kids do and because I, with my vast collection of Megaman action figures, was not a nerd, I never really gave it the time of day. Save for some short stints with friends in college. Honestly, I had my reasons for not diving into the mystical world of tabletop role playing games (TTRPGs) but they wouldn't be cohesive until years later. I had a lot of complicated feelings, being a first generation black person living in white suburban America. While I was always happy to express my nerdier habits in private, I struggled for many years to be anything other than black in public. Whenever the cracks showed, I was deemed to an "oreo" or "one of the good ones," because black people never did that nerdy stuff, all we liked were sports and rap music. It was complicated, and I still have a lot of those feelings buried in the back of my mind today. In white spac...