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Starship crew refer to the reliably repetitive pattern of ship life as a rotating wheel with three handles.Transit, Dock, Layover, Transit, Dock, Layover, and so on forever. 1...
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Ships large enough to travel between the stars are a big investment, so most interstellar travellers get around as part of a captain’s crew. A standard sized ship has a crew...
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The life of a Knight isn’t all myth-seeking and feast-eating. Sometimes you’re called in for proper work, namely taking stuff from vassals and bringing it to their ruler. Of...
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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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Glorantha is a famously deep but daunting setting. I won’t try to summarise it here, but open up any of the books and you’re sure to be swarmed by proper nouns you’ve never...
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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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Mythic Bastionland has this spark table for it's lands.Want to go a further step deeper? Let's see how deep this place...
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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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What makes a Feast? Three things, as you’d expect.Ceremony - How is the official purpose of the feast observed?Spectacle - How is the host showing off how wealthy, powerful, or...
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You’ll have noticed that if you stick around a holding in Mythic Bastionland then the land is, well, less mythic. In fact, Myths kind of pause when the Knights aren’t out...
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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...
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Sticking this here for ease of access and update. With thanks to Udy Kumra in the discord for getting this started.Do Scars remove Virtues permanently?No. They are temporary as...
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Following on from last week's Slugblaster-Planescape mashup, let's look at some crews loosely inspired by the Factions of Planescape. A few of the individual members are pulled...
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I just launched MAC Attack on Backerkit.If you've been following this blog at all then you've seen me write about it before. If you follow the link above there's a free...
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If you play in any of my in-person groups, turn back now! No huge spoilers, but stuff that would be more fun to discover in game.Okay?Right.So I've been reading through the...
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Want to learn to play MAC Attack in 16 minutes? Like the look of it? Get ready for the Backerkit launch soon.
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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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I made this as an intro video for my Deep Dives, but it also serves as good mood setting for Mythic Bastionland.
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So we played around with the shittiest MACs you can field in MAC Attack, but what about the best?Presenting MegaMACs.Take a Class 3 MAC, the biggest in the game, and apply the...
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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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What’s the smallest possible game of MAC Attack?By the book a force must have at least three MACs. The cheapest MAC you can build is a Class 1 (12pts) with the maximum of...
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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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After last week’s holiday I’m taking a little break from Mythic places, but I’ll return to that series at some point. Let’s go back to Alpha Complex. I mentioned previously...
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Electric Bastionland puts you in debt, with a failed career, and generally assumes you've left home in order to pursue your get-out-of-debt-quick scheme.But I've certainly had...