Setting Sketch: Miyamoto Academy Combatters
| MIYAMOTO ACADEMY COMBATTERS Fight for your honor! Fight for your humanity! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!  |
| Honnouji Academy from Kill la Kill |
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| True Cross Academy from Blue Exorcist |
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| Statue of Miyamoto Musashi |
Fueled by the Five Elements of Power – magic, miracles, psionics, super
powers, and weird science – Combatters have emerged from the youth of the world
since the 1950s, increasing in number as the decades have progressed until they
threaten the world with their inhuman fury and strength. The United Nations Security Council established
the Reformatory Academy program in the 1980s, creating quarantine schools where
teenaged Combatters could battle amongst themselves under the watchful eyes of
mature Combatters who have learned to control their powers and rage. Now, as a new and idealistic generation of
Combatters are inducted into Miyamoto Academy, the Reformatory Academy program
itself faces challenges from within and without.
The new students come from all walks of life,
but all are marked by the strange powers and uncontrollable fighting spirit of
Combatters. One might be an A student
who has dabbled in the mystic arts to boost her grades while another might be a
dropout who is the reincarnation of a Buddhist warrior monk. The class president might be a powerful
mentalist who uses his psionic powers to dominate the class. One pair of rivals might be a
second-generation superhero and a genius inventor who fight over the affections
of the most innocent girl in school. All
of them, though, have been forced to attend the mysterious and terrifying
Miyamoto Reformatory Academy and must discover its secrets to survive to
graduation.
Who are the shadowy forces that seek to use the Reformatory Academies to
their own ends? What secrets will the new
students discover about their powers? Where will the trials of tournaments of
Academy life lead their destinies? Why does the future of all mankind rest on
the shoulders of these children? How will
the purity of youth defeat the compromises of age?
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Miyamoto Academy Combatters is a tournament
fighting setting for Savage Worlds inspired by such high school manga and anime
as Bleach, Blue Exorcist, Cromartie High
School, Great Teacher Onizuka, Kill la Kill, Project A-ko, Ranma ½, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Tenjho Tenge.
Requires: Savage Worlds Deluxe
Compatible with: Fantasy, Horror, and Sci-Fi Companions
OR Super Powers Companion.
Player characters are students at the Academy who have just
transferred in at the beginning of the school year. All player characters receive an Arcane
Background (Magic, Miracles, Psionics, Super Powers, or Weird Science) for free
(or the Super Powers Companion version
of Super Powers as per that book). As
infamous delinquents, all player characters begin at Seasoned.
New Setting Rule:
Psyche-Out
Combatters challenge their foes head-on. Every fight begins with a Social Combat in
which the Combatters may attempt to psyche each other out. Players should role-play out the exchange of
insults and boasts; for every on of their opponent’s Hindrances they manage to
invoke, the players gain a bonus to their social attack roll (+2 for a Major
Hindrance and +1 for a Minor Hindrance).
The winner of the Social Combat may choose to either have her opponent
begin the fight Shaken or begin the fight with a Wild Attack that leaves her
opponent with a reduced Parry; the winner of the Social Combat may choose the
result after initiative cards are dealt.
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| Kill la Kill |
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| Blue Exorcist |
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| Project A-Ko |
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