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Progress Journal, February #1
🕑 Added 2025-02-12 04:51:46 +0000 UTCGreetings Mythicists! I hope your month is going well, and you're deconstructing adventure modules for solo play :) Those modules never saw it coming.
The latest issue of Mythic Magazine was exciting to make, I love subjects like running solo games with published adventures. There are so many ways to go about it, that it's fun to ask, "What if we try doing this ... ?"
A lot of what's currently cooking are things you know about, but here's the scoop:
Translations
Mythic GME 2e Spanish and Portuguese editions have been in crowdfunding, and both are doing well. It's fun watching the numbers go up :) The publishers have been asking about more Mythic material, such as the magazines, so it looks like the Mythic community is growing :) There's a German version in the works out there as well, and the Italian edition was already completed. That's all the languages currently planned at the moment.
Mythic RPG 2e
I've been working on, and playtesting, the combat rules. While they largely follow the "narrative" combat mechanics from Mythic Magazine #28, I've been doing a lot of refining and simplifying. There are various ways to go about handling combat, depending on how much detail you want in a fight and how much control you want to hand over to the system. However, whichever level of granularity you choose, they all use the same rules.
The Broken Empires
I've been working on solo systems for Trevor Devall's The Broken Empires RPG, which has been a blast to do :) I'm just about done with those. You'll recognize some of One-Page Mythic GME in them, as well as concepts from the magazine. I'm looking forward to seeing this game when it's published!
Micro Mythic
This book has gone through some reorganizing. I brought all the one-pagers up front, presenting them right away so you can use it all quickly. The rest of the book is supporting material, worksheets, and examples. So many examples! I'm coordinating the development of this book with Mythic RPG 2e since many of the systems mirror each other. When both are done, I want them to be recognizably related to each other. That way, Micro can feel like a streamlined version of MRPG2e.
Mythic Magazine #51
The next issue of Mythic Magazine is starting to come together. This one will feature articles about gamifying your solo adventures with The Mechanics Crafter, and a collection of Event Crafter tables for various themes you can plug into your adventures right away! I've been wanting to do something with the Event Crafter ever since it first appeared in issue #24 :)
That's about it for now! Happy adventuring, everyone :)
Comments
Tana Pigeon
Yes, you beat me to the punch! I was going to ask for Event Crafter themes, and here you have them :) Thank you Bill, those are great ideas.
Tana Pigeon
That sounds like a good combination, One-Page Mythic with deconstructed adventures. That sounds so lightweight it might be a formula for making published adventures feel like Fighting Fantasy novels or other lightweight approaches.
Tana Pigeon
Hi Gustel :) I'm working on Compilation #8 and I expect it to appear next month, in March, in PDF. The POD should follow about two months later.
Gustel
Thank you for that update! Any news about the work on the Mythic Magazine Compilation 8? I'm relative new to the gang and some of that topics are very interesting for me. So I'm waiting on this. Is the timeline more like summer or later? Then, maybe I go now for the most interesting issue... and wait for the rest later.
thePooka
Good to hear the word "simplifying" with regard to the combat stuff - thanks for that! Very much looking forward to Mythic RPG 2e and to Micro Mythic. The deconstructed adventure stuff has been a fun, relatively low-effort way to play with toys I've already got and that's cool! I'm thinking I might want to try to combine that - the Adventure Tables and Crisis Events stuff with one-page Mythic for a no scene and no (or almost no) list super lightweight thing to play with. Great work!
Bill
Are you taking requests for the Event Crafter table themes? Please provide something to use with the rules for the Mystery Matrix, Horror adventures, and political intrigue. For a change of pace, I'd like to throw my characters into a soap opera of interpersonal relationships to create backstory and emotional tension for future adventures. Thanks again, Tana.
Tana Pigeon
Yeah, I didn't really plan it that way, it just kind of evolved lol Some of the effort to minimize Mythic rules into a one-page format also coincided with efforts to contain a lot of rules within Mythic RPG 2e. Since I'm trying to streamline the rules so everything fits nicely and works together well, the minimizing work from Micro Mythic is also serving MRPG2e well.
Jeremy W. Sherman
I hope Discovery Prompts and Adventure Seeds are options again for next month! It also sounds like we’re going to have two new Mythic books to pick up at once later this year. I didn’t realize Micro-Mythic would be so twinned with Mythic RPG 2e. Curious to see how they compare!
