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📖 Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

🕯Introduction

🍺Adventurers’ Tavern

1 💪Attributes

2 🌈Attribute PRISMs

3 ⚒Skills

4 ⭐Experience Points

5 ⭐Action Star Level

6 🕊Favor Points

7 💰Earnings

8 🫀Human Type

9 🎭Character Class

10 🗨️Dialog Scenes

11 ▶️Action Scenes

12 🎬Example Actions

13 💥Damage & Defense

14 ❤️Healing Scenes

15 📜Magic System

16 🪱The Gloom

17 ✍Character Creation

      📎 Appendix A — Actions

      📎 Appendix B — Bestiary

      📎 Appendix C — Characters

      📎 Appendix D — Dungeon

      📎 Appendix E — Equipment

💌 About the Author

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