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BESM Fourth Edition Core RPG

BESM Fourth Edition core role-playing game book contains everything you need to create your anime and manga characters and start playing. No other books are required, though we have an entire expansion line in the works to support your gaming adventures. This gorgeous volume is a hefty 336 full-color pages with well over 100 beautiful illustrations from talented artist across the world. BESM Fourth Edition features a laminated hardcover with spot UV varnish and a durable Smyth-sewn binding that allows your book to easily lay flat and stay open to any page.

BESM Deluxe Limited Fourth Edition Core RPG

BESM and role-playing aficionados won't want to miss out on this stunning version of the game: the BESM Deluxe Limited Fourth Edition RPG. Each volume has been hand numbered and signed by BESM creator, Mark MacKinnon. The BESM logo is foil stamped onto a vibrant purple leatherette cover, the pages are accented with silver gilded edges, and the binding is enhanced with three handy bookmark ribbons to keep your place while playing. The BESM Deluxe Limited Fourth Edition RPG will normally not be available to purchase in retail stores and is available exclusively from Dyskami Publishing and our publishing partner, Japanime Games. We are only printing a limited number of this edition for sales at conventions and through our web store.

BESM Naked Core RPG – A Stripped-Down Version of the Rules

BESM 4 is actually two distinct games. In addition to the standard BESM Fourth Edition, we are also releasing a stripped-down core role-playing game called BESM Naked that a complete, stand-alone, alternate edition. See what we did there? BESM Naked is a “gateway product” of a sorts, targeted at anime and manga fans who may know something about role-playing but aren’t traditional gamers. It’s also for role-playing enthusiasts who enjoy indie-style RPGs with simple rules and more narrative game flow. With a structural simplicity closer to BESM First Edition from 1997 — yet presented with an eye on illustration and graphic design that lives up to the expectations of today’s gamers — BESM Naked contains everything you need to play, wrapped in one small volume at an attractive price.

BESM Extras

We have created an entire book dedicated to BESM Fourth Edition rules variations, extended game mechanics, expanded optional guidelines, creative adventuring elements, and plenty of ready-to-use examples of spells, powers, and items. Along with the BESM core book and BESM Naked, BESM Extras is a foundational pillar for the game line. This gorgeous volume is 144 full-colour pages with beautiful illustrations from talented artist across the world. BESM Extras features a sturdy hardcover with spot UV lamination, a convenient bookmark ribbon, and a durable Smyth-sewn binding that allows your book to easily lay flat and stay open to any page.

BESM Multiverse

This books details the Anime Multiverse: BESM Fourth Edition’s official setting that spans across all genres and themes. Journey throughout the six Prime Worlds, a dozen Inner Worlds, 42 Outer Worlds, and an endless variety of Beyonder and Parallel Worlds. At the centre of it all lies the wondrous Omphalos – our own Earth. An essential setting companion for any BESM campaign.

BESM Ikaris

The BESM Ikaris expansion offers your group a world of epic fantasy anime adventures! Ikaris is one of seven Prime Worlds of BESM’s official Anime Multiverse setting. This book explores the fantasy realm’s history and its many regions, peoples, alliances, monsters, heroes, and villains. Featuring plenty of ready-to-play game stats for equipment, weapons, vehicles, magical artefacts, and NPCs – as well as advice for running epic fantasy anime adventures – BESM Ikaris is an essential expansion for your RPG campaign.

BESM Game Screen and Adventure

This handy and sturdy 4-panel reference screen for game masters features a one-stop location for BESM tables, charts, and other resources, wrapped in a stunning full-color panoramic image on the front. As a bonus, inside you’ll find the engaging two-part, multi-genre adventure "You Have Chosen...Wisely" that can be dropped into nearly any campaign. Additionally, we include a weapons and armour quick reference sheet. With gorgeous art and an intriguing story, this BESM Game Screen and Adventure is a great addition to your anime RPG collection.

BESM Character Folio

Some players desire more than a simple character sheet to present their creation. The BESM Character Folio is the ultimate journal for detailing characters from any style of game campaign. The folio includes: a deluxe character sheet with expanded areas for stats and descriptions; sections for detailing your character’s abilities, background, personality; and journal pages on which you can record your character’s inner thoughts, secrets learned during each session, and other important game notes.

BESM Dramatis Personae

Do you like NPCs? Because we've got NPCs! The small Dramatis Personae PDF volumes of adventure NPCs have been a hit with BESM Fourth Edition fans, and so we are collecting them all into one printed printed volume. We are also adding a dozen never-seen-before new entries, plus a section on NPC organisations in the BESM Multiverse. Like BESM Extras, BESM Dramatis Personae clocks in at 144 full-colour pages with gorgeous illustrations. Hardcover, Smyth-sewn binding, spot UV lamination, bookmark ribbon – it's all here, too!

BESM Denizens of the Multiverse Deck

This BESM Fourth Edition RPG accessory features a convenient deck of 136 characters and monsters from across the Anime Multiverse. Characters are illustrated on the front of each 4” x 6” card with their BESM game stats listed on the back. These cards can be used at your gaming table in conjunction with only the core rules, or they can be paired with background details provided in the BESM Dramatis Personae and BESM Multiverse expansions.

BESM Uresia: Grave of Heaven

This volume collects nearly the entirety of S. John Ross’s extensive works on Uresia over the past 20 years (which started as a BESM Second Edition expansion in 2004), then adds new exclusive material and BESM Fourth Edition game content. It provides a general overview of the world setting, delves into several specific locales more closely, and suggests many new character templates and options – all in S. John’s distinctive writing style.

BESM Multiverse Maps

This boxed set contains eight full-colour maps of worlds from the Anime Multiverse, as detailed in the BESM Fourth Edition role-playing game and its BESM Multiverse expansion book. The maps are sufficiently large (30” x 24”) that they can be prominently displayed on a wall or overlayed on your gaming table during play. A sheet of building stickers is also included for marking custom places on your maps.

BESM 2D-Animinis

BESM 2D-Animinis are cardboard miniature standees that helps bring dynamic characters and NPCs to life in your gaming adventures – adding over 100 monsters, characters, mecha, and animals to your anime tabletop RPG stories. These gorgeous illustrations are printed in a variety of sizes on sturdy punchboards, and are ready to be inserted into the included plastic bases. It's an affordable and compact way to bring your adventures to the next level!

BESM Dice Tower and Trays

With table space often at a premium, it's handy to have a compact option for dice rolling. With the BESM Dice Tower and Trays, we are packaging together a functional yet beautiful constructible cardboard dice tower, plus two snap-together neoprene dice trays. The tower represents a whimsical waterslide for the Asrai and their winged lemur friends, set within a hollow giant tree in the lands of Aradia. The two dice trays each portray a scene from the Prime Worlds of the BESM Multiverse – one of the space-opera setting of Cathedral, and one of the post-apocalyptic setting of Enid. When paired with the previously available BESM Dice to accent your gaming table, you'll be ready to roll along in your adventures (see what we did there?).

BESM Dice

Purchase a custom set of BESM Dice for your gameplay, too: eight six-sided dice, with four dice of each of two colors (purple and pink). The dice have two different custom designs on them: the full Tri-Stat System logo that powers BESM Fourth Edition (replacing the 3s; reflecting a group of players) and one-third of the logo (replacing the 1s; reflecting a single player). Add a touch of elegance to your gaming table!

BESM Adventures – Volume 1

Welcome to Carousel Obscrua – the first story module in the BESM Adventures line. When the characters are summoned across dimensions from their homeworld of Molybdos to the strange fantasy world, Magenta, they gain wondrous supernatural abilities. A 32-page introductory level adventure for 4-6 players with 90-Point characters.

BESM Tokyo Sidekick

In a special partnership with Japanime Games, we have statted out 20 larger-than-life personalities (and their items) for BESM Fourth Edition that are featured in the upcoming Tokyo Sidekick anime superhero board game. Combining anime and superheroes together in a full-colour, 24-page NPC expansion? Yes, please!

BESM Retro Second Edition

BESM 2E has been out of print for over 20 years, but now the BESM multi-genre anime and manga role-playing game is back in a special Retro Second Edition! Get ready for expanded and updated content, including new character options, templates, rules, monsters, examples, and artwork. Whether your gaming preference runs towards comedy or drama, fantasy or science fiction, horror or romance, shojo or shonen, Big Eyes, Small Mouth has everything you need to help you make your favourite anime characters and stories come to life. Available in a standard softcover edition and an exclusive hardcover collector’s limited edition.

Ikarion: A BESM Isekai LitRPG Novel Trilogy

The Ikarion Trilogy is an isekai LitRPG adventure novel series that unfolds in BESM's Anime Multiverse setting and provides in-game BESM Fourth Edition stats for the characters. Ikarion Gate (Book 1) and Ikarion Quest (Book 2) are complete, with Book 3 following in 2025. The novel follows the exploits of Tito, a down-on-his-luck and anonymous Imago slummer. Daily, he logs in to Monad’s Ikarion VR MMO to earn survival “gang protection” money in his alter ego identity as Card, the Hedge Merchant. With his fellow player friend Perk, the cheerful Agrarian Dwarf, and a host of other unlikely companions, Card is about to discover there is much more to the Ikarion game and its mysterious gate than he could have ever imagined.

BESM Primer

The FREE BESM Primer gives you a general overview of what you can expect from BESM Fourth Edition, including a walkthrough of the steps involved in creating a character. Additionally, we provide you with a comprehensive summary of BESM’s underlying Tri-Stat System game mechanics so you can see how all the pieces fit together. Updated, rebalanced, streamlined, and expanded, BESM is now available in a standard Fourth Edition as well as a simpler, “stripped-down” Naked Edition. Download the BESM Primer NOW!