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Or patches, badges, tattoos. This covers a broad category of unofficial trophies that can be earned by a member of a starship crew in the form of some sort of physical mark to...Linked by the ring
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So what about those unsettled and unexplored worlds in Intergalactic Bastionland?They won't get the same detail that the main worlds get, but I want to include some information...Linked by the ring
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This was prompted by hearing a discussion about tracking torches in a dungeon crawling game. This is something that I find that adds work, rarely becomes impactful, and the...Linked by the ring
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Intergalactic Bastionland is now ready for public playtesting. Go here to find everything you need.We're a way off the Kickstarter yet, but you can be first to follow here.Linked by the ring
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That's right. When you run a playtest it's not about those parasitic players. You're the one who should be under the microscope.Not exclusively, and I talked about player...Linked by the ring
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Oh, you thought your job on the ship would give you skills?As if. Only life can give you skills, and that's something you don't get much choice in.When rolling an Intergalactic...Linked by the ring
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Getting around a ship can sometimes be worse than getting around the galaxy. Any point on a ship is defined by its Deck and Compartment numbers. DecksStandard-sized ships have...Linked by the ring
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You’ve probably met knights from other realms, but these are different. While they resemble familiar knights in many ways, they have a different oath and a different set of...Linked by the ring
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The Mythic Bastionland realm creation procedure suggests a 12x12 hex Realm, but I've drifted more toward 12x18 mostly because it's a nice easy fit to print out on a regular...Linked by the ring
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I’ve been making games professionally for long enough now that people sometimes ask me how I got here. I don’t really know the answer, but I know these things are true: I’d be...Linked by the ring
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Not The River, of course. A typical Mythic Bastionland realm, following the procedure in the book, has a navigable river. It’s an extremely fast way to get around! You might...Linked by the ring
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Just got back from GenCon, so this one is fuelled by jet lag. In triple Ennie award winning smash hit Mythic Bastionland there are a number of effects that can cause Virtue...Linked by the ring
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Much has been discussed about the ease or deadliness of combat in Mythic Bastionland and I think the following can all be true at the same time.Combat is fast and brutal and a...
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By the book, Squires get a pony, a dagger, and an okay weapon from a d6 table.Want to give your Squires a bit more flavour? Roll d6 and d12, reading them in that...Linked by the ring
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Travelling between Realms usually just has you arrive in the following season. Maybe we can roll to find out what actually happened on the journey.I’m currently messing with a...Linked by the ring
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Bastiards of the electric epoch are known for their badly designed dice games, but what about the knights, vassals, and vagabonds of the mythic age? They have lots of their own...Linked by the ring
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How do you run a Mythic Bastionland one shot?There’s some guidance on the “Starts and Scopes” page at the front of the book, but it seems to be a recurring question. I figured...Linked by the ring
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Old characters in Mythic Bastionland stand a chance of just dying off-screen between Ages.But what happened to that person?Roll d6611: The life was coughed out of their...Linked by the ring
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Following on from last week, here are some events that might happen between Ages.Other than the inevitableRoll d66 for each Knight:11. You suffered a great failure and must...Linked by the ring
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Mythic Bastionland assumes that you’ll advance through the Seasons, and likely through the Ages, seeing your Knights grow old and maybe die a peaceful death. In terms of what...Linked by the ring
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The next two landmarks will be the overtly bad ones. No positive spin on this, a Hazard is just a place you want to avoid.Unless...Well, let’s make this one a place that you’ll...Linked by the ring
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Described as places of inspiration. Spending a phase here restores Spirit, so they’re typically one of the most straightforwardly beneficial landmarks to come across.But what...Linked by the ring
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Each Sanctum is a sacred home to a seer. They are typically mysterious by nature, so by expanding this sanctum into a site we can make it difficult for the knights to find the...Linked by the ring
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Sites read like a bit of a side-dish in Mythic Bastionland. I wanted to include a simple little system to create more zoomed-in locations, but the game is generally more...
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As so many have said before, an “empty room” doesn’t need to be a literal empty room. Instead, it’s just a room that doesn’t (currently) contain a monster, treasure, or...Linked by the ring
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I’ve ragged on games before for wasting my time with bespoke calendars. Traveller’s names for weekdays are running jokes in my group. It’s the height of worldbuilding...Linked by the ring
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Last week I did this for the positive Landmarks, so let’s look at the negatives. Now, Ruins aren’t strictly negative, but they aren’t as outright beneficial as the...Linked by the ring
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One of the goals of MAC Attack is to put the players in pilot view This is where they focus in on the active unit, look at its modules, track its heat, speed, and facing, and...Linked by the ring
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Mythic Bastionland suggests that Holdings are commonly ruled by a Knight. Last time I spoke about this I had one of the four Holdings in a Realm ruled by a non-knight, in that...Linked by the ring
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If I'm not careful I can see a future where I own far too many Tarot decks.Not so much for oracular life guidance, but I'm increasingly drawn to these decks of highly evocative...Linked by the ring
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One-off battles are fun in MAC Attack, but what if you want a campaign?Before writing anything resembling a campaign system I wanted to think about campaigns. I mean, what's...Linked by the ring
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My favourite RPG books do their work in three distinct stages: GRAB: Get the reader excited to play the game and make it an easy sell to players. PREP: Give the GM what they...Linked by the ring
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Mythic Bastionland is largely a game about travelling. How does that work?PLAY The Company are part way through a journey between two distant holdings. Ref points to their...Linked by the ring
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Mythic Bastionland is approaching its final week of funding! Go and check it out.Now onto the actual post.So you've built a nice Mythic Bastionland realm where everybody lives...Linked by the ring
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Mythic Bastionland doesn't really use money, or at least it isn't really a game about earning wealth and spending it on better gear. Only the rich deal in coins. Most trade...Linked by the ring
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It was fun playing around with another type of Universal Profile last week, so let's keep it rolling. Can we make this work for creatures?UNIVERSAL CREATURE PROFILERoll 5d6,...Linked by the ring
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I've had a week off, enjoying/surviving Paris, one of my favourite cities to visit. To go full cliché, it's a city of many halves, each one beautiful and terrifying in its own...
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EDIT: If you read this on Patreon last week, be aware there are some changes as I've worked on the game a bit.There's a meme somewhere about how miniature wargamers move to...Linked by the ring
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There are more.Blood Drinker OxAface ared in fields avuneAveins, a pulse apower attuneWith cloven hoof he crushed red grainA gory mark on face and maneBut all who'd felted wash...Linked by the ring
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In Mythic Bastionland I refer to a six step process for adjudicating player action.INTENT - What are you trying to do?LEVERAGE - What makes it possible?COST - Would it use a...
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What am I looking for in a Mech game?My wishlist was something like: 1. Field every type of unit from infantry squads up to huge mechs 2. Have unit and weapon types feel...Linked by the ring
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You'd be forgivenfor thinking that I want every game to be rules lite. While I love that style of game I can't deny the draw of crunchier systems, at least on paper.The reality...Linked by the ring
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Earlier this year I wrote about my first dip into Traveller, but I didn't get onto talking about the Universal World Profiles and Universal Personality Profiles. In short, it's...
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I don't think I'd ever want to make an RPG without testing it. It's not that testing is completely necessary. You can make something and put it out right away, and this might...Linked by the ring
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Last week I wrote about how I was prepping for my Primeval Bastionland playtest (which went well!). In particular, how I wanted a world that felt real, like it existed outside...Linked by the ring
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A land born of myth. The past that never was now is. Petty domains in wildland. Horrors from story and song.But in our dreams, the shining city. A haven of civilisation.All...Linked by the ring
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Relax everyone, I've solved Soulslike Combat in RPGs™ Like all the great rules of our time this was written for my games but works with anything. SLOW ACTIONS: Some actions or...Linked by the ring
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This Bastionland Editorial was originally sent as a reward to all Patreon supporters, and is released freely on this site a week after its original publication.If you want to...Linked by the ring
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This Bastionland Editorial was originally sent as a reward to all Patreon supporters, and is released freely on this site a week after its original publication.If you want to...Linked by the ring
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This Bastionland Editorial was originally sent as a reward to all Patreon supporters, and is released freely on this site a week after its original publication.If you want to...