Yellow Magic

Yellow Magic is a roleplaying game developed, written and illustrated by the extradimensional wizard Myghul Ilosu Csoelephaïon ub Zirque, nervously humored across Cerulea by his stage name — Byzanto!

Nominally a nonschool RPG, Yellow Magic's design is very much informed by the history and theory of roleplaying games, as its developer has incorporated and synergized what's best of all schools: 

• The simulationist realism wargaming ushered into the early RPGs;
• The rich mechanical intricacy and customizability of the 90s & 00s;
• The intuitivity and inventive freedom enjoyed by the new wave.

All in a system that decouples itself from the limits of genre, so that a gamemaster could run science fantasy as easily as they might German existentialism, but really to help RPGs throw off the yoke of such useless (worse, harmful) categorization.

Yellow Magic 0e is a question: how can RPGs be better than they've ever been? Through further play and refinement over the years, it will become its own answer. And in publishing it, Myghul has asked us all to help be a part of that answer.