Player's Handbook · Chapter 1

The Basics

Eastbound is a contemporary life roleplaying game set in fictional cities inspired by East Asia. You play an adult with a job, a family, and a daily routine — and a life that is about to get complicated.

Most play lives in ordinary days: commutes, deadlines, dinners, late-night convenience stores. When the table wants it, those same ordinary days turn into television-scale drama: confrontations, confessions, betrayals, reconciliations. The game moves between the two registers, and the contrast is the point.

What you do

Pick a built campaign and a seat at its table, or bring your own person and walk in from outside. Each session, you say what your person does and says; the game master plays the world back — people, consequences, interruptions.

There is no fixed script beyond the established history. Stories grow from what your person wants, owes, and hides.

Checks

When what you attempt could fail, cost something, or get complicated, roll 2d6 + one stat.

Roll	Result
10+	Clean success.
7–9	Success with a cost or complication.
6–	Things escalate.

Your stats are Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma, and Looks. If there is no meaningful risk, do not roll — just say what you do.

Tone

All drama is between consenting adults at the table. Before play, the table sets its dials: how heightened the drama gets, how central romance is, how heavy dark material runs, and what the screen may show. Anyone can soften a scene at any time.

Read The Drama Engine next for the small set of mechanics, then Making Your Person, then Campaign Flavors to pick the season's tone.

Manual updated Nov 2, 2026.

Eastbound

A contemporary East Asian life RPG — ordinary days, work, family, and romance that can turn into television-scale drama. Set in fictional cities inspired by Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan. Play anyone adult; the table sets the tone together.

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Eastbound

Ordinary days. Extraordinary drama.

A contemporary life RPG set in fictional cities inspired by East Asia. Work, family, friendship and romance in ordinary days — which can turn, when the table wants it, into full television drama. Pick up a built campaign or walk in with your own person.

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