Lone Horizons

Tarnen is in the small city of Queenstead trying to solve the mystery of how an unemployed ropemaker, Anmah Yarvan was killed on the roadside south of the city. A man called Faval, gardener at the temple of Asoth and friend of Anmah, is helping him. I'm using Mythras: Classic Fantasy, Mythic GME 2nd Edition and the D30 Sandbox Companion. Scene 3 | The Veteran’s Garden, Queenstead | Year 645, 2nd of 7th Month | Chaos Factor: 5 Threads: Find work in Queenstead, The Beast, Investigate the dead Var follower, Ogres near Queenstead, Queenstead economic crash Characters: Family, Ally 1, Ally 2, Contact 1, Faval When I used the D30 Sandbox Companion to generate Queenstead it determined that an economic crash was imminent in the city, and that there's a 1 in 30 chance of it happening each day. I've decided to incorporate this as a Mythic thread instead so it becomes part of the "core rules". Testing the Expected Scene Expected: Tarnen tries to find a ranger or someone with...

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...