Lone Horizons

After playing through the first scene I realised Mythic GME sort of clashes a bit with the old school D&D methods of hexcrawling. The D30 Sandbox Companion provides a lot of encounters and ways to generate terrain and locations in the wilderness, but Mythic expects you to do this by asking it questions like “Does Tarnen encounter anyone on the road today?” rather than rolling a D6. I’m going to continue using the hexmap I’m generating (which I haven’t scanned for the blog yet), rolling dice to determine the biome of each hex but asking the oracle about encounters once per day. Scene 2 | The Downs | Year 645, 1st of 7th Month | Chaos Factor: 4 Threads: Find work in Queenstead, The Beast, Investigate the dead Var follower Characters: Family, Ally 1, Ally 2, Contact 1 Testing the Expected Scene Expected: Tarnen arrives at Queenstead City and begins making enquiries about the dead body. D10 roll: 9. Over chaos factor = Scene goes as expected. Tarnen continues along the road through the...

Let's just get right into playing this time, we can generate the world as we go from here. Tarnen is roughly 20 miles south of the small city of Queenstead, having left his hometown (to be detailed later) and set off for the nearest settlement. One quick note is that I moved "The Beast" from the characters list to the threads list as on closer inspection of the tables it makes more sense for it to be treated as a kind of plot thread than a character. Scene 1 | The Downs | Year 645, 1st of 7th Month | Chaos Factor: 5 Threads: Find work in Queenstead, The Beast Characters: Family, Ally 1, Ally 2, Contact 1 Tarnen has had an uneventful journey north so far, through the region known as the Downs. It's mid morning on the first official day of summer and it's warm and pleasant, with almost no clouds in the sky. (I'm using the simplified weather tables in D30 Sandbox Companion). He's following a well-worn track towards the city so we don’t need any skill rolls or...

Introduction Welcome to my solo campaign of Mythras: Classic Fantasy. We did the prep work for this over on the YouTube channel where you can watch the playlist to get up to speed. In the video series we created our hero Tarnen Setor, the son of a successful bowyer in a grim medieval world mostly populated by humans. His mother died long ago and after his father succumbed to blacklung when Tarnen was 26, he saw his life laid out ahead of him, working in the family workshop, having children with a homely wife and then dying mostly likely the same way as his father, never experiencing life outside their settlement. Since he has an older brother who naturally inherited the business from his father, he realised he could follow his heart and give in to the pull of the outside world, setting out for a life of exploration and adventure. His brother and two younger sisters would be able to handle the family business together anyway. Character Stats I made a bit of a mistake in the character c...

Just a quick update to say my YouTube series where I share my preparations for playing Mythras solo is now complete and online here .

Introduction Ok, we've got the second combat in the round of eight. This time it's Ploix the goblin vs Vrog the orog (think LOTR's uruk hai). But first I forgot last time that Lovar the dwarf gets his experience rolls to see if he gains any skill points. We're going to give the contestants two experience rolls each time they win a battle. In this case they need to roll equal to or greater their skill level to receive an increase of 1D4+1 points. If they roll under their skill level they still receive a 1%/1 point increase anyway. Lovar makes an experience roll: 53 +18 Intelligence = 71 vs 70 Combat. Success! Combat skill increased to (+1D4+1): 75% Lovar makes an experience roll: 24 +18 Int = 42 vs 60 Brawn. Failure! Brawn increased to (+1%): 61% Here's where we're up to with the round of eight: 1. Lovar, Dwarf vs Traynon, Half-Orc 2. Ploix, Goblin vs Vrog, Orog 3. Hebnec, Deep Gnome vs Chaggos, Gnoll 4. Ook, Awakened Baboon vs Koz, Hobgoblin 5. Gorgo, Orc vs Ful...

In a distant world there is a place called The Badlands, ruled over by the evil overlord Baithorian. One day he decided to find a champion to be his personal retainer and bodyguard, so he announced a grand tournament. Participants would fight to the death in front of his dreadful court, with the winner of the tournament crowned his personal protector and showered with riches and respect.  They would fight almost naked with naught but rags to cover their modesty. They would fight with weapons randomly chosen for them and be rewarded with a piece of armour for each fight they won. Fights would take place on the seventh day of each week, and survivors would be provided with healing while they awaited their next duel. It would not be fair in any way. Introduction This is my second attempt at a Mythras tournament after I tried a while ago using Dark Sun as a setting. My upcoming Mythras Classic Fantasy campaign will feature Baithorian as the bad guy and the winner of this tournament as ...