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How To Play Gates of Krystalia

Hi everyone, this is a special how to play episode of Firebreathing Kittens podcast. I’m the game master for an upcoming session using the rules for a tabletop roleplaying game called Gates of Krystalia. This episode is a summary of what I learned after reading the rule book. Hopefully this will be a handy guide for how to play for my players, will help me organize myself, and will be useful for you listeners, too, who are looking to play your own Gates of Krystalia game at home. My only level of expertise here is that I read the rule book, so, I possibly could and probably have gotten some of the following things wrong. But that’s okay, let’s begin.

I’ll organize this how to play guide into sections.

1. Game category

2. Generic test

3. Four hero abilities

4. Competency tests

5. ASMD instead of PEMDAS

6. Combat encounters

7. Fleeing

8. Passing your turn

9. Healing

10. Dying

11. Conditions

12. Weapons

13. Trauma and madness

14. Corruption

15. Coins

16. Objects

17. Carrying capacity

18. Potions and gadgets

19. Building a character

Game category. Gates of Krystalia is a table top role playing game that is themed around the isekai anime genre. Isekai stories involve a person from our world being suddenly transported, transmigrated, dying and reincarnating, being summoned, or otherwise ending up in a magical world. Some of the most famous examples are So I’m A Spider So What?, Re: Zero Starting Life In Another World, and My Next Life As A Villainess All Routes Lead To Doom. There are also not yet animated manga, manwha, webtoons etc, such as The Greatest Estate Developer and Concubine Walkthough. You might notic