On Mythic
Well, I suppose I can talk a little bit about my current RPG project, since it's reached the critical mass where I can't really give up on it. Plus I made an informal new years resolution to see it through to the end of the year.
See, children, uncle Stinja suffers from chronic poor follow-through. It isn't that I'm not burdened with an overabundance of ideas, it's that I usually find some way to let the new shiny ones distract me from my work on the ones that, through exploration, have become slightly less shiny.
My current RPG that has weathered the appearance of other possible projects, is called Mythic, and is an attempt to blend semi-realistic portrayals of feudal-era life with heroic action, as one sees in myths like Beowulf, the Homeric poems, or other epics.
It's a decidedly low-fantasy system, with an emphasis on heroes, superstition, and magic. It also serves as a vehicle to correct a number of things that fantasy games get wrong about the middle ages. Most of these can be summed up in one word:
SCAAAAAAAAALE.
D&D 4E, for example, states that a "small town" consists of several thousand, and large cities of several million. This is a blatant fabrication. In reality, the largest cities were scarcely larger than 5000 souls. For comparison, that is about the population of a single modern aircraft carrier.
Swords, suits of plate mail, and other implements of war were never available easily, hanging in the windows of shops. They were always expensive, and one of the biggest perks of being a knight was that your lord would provide you with arms and armor. But I digress.
The system itself uses a 2d6 roll-under system for conflict resolution. It has a resource management system for combat. There are four attributes, whose values are not chosen or randomly determined, but derived from the other traits. Character creation is partially streamlined, but that's rarely the actual limiting factor in the amount of time it takes to make a character.
I'm looking at you, henne.
Put some pants on,
-Stinja
See, children, uncle Stinja suffers from chronic poor follow-through. It isn't that I'm not burdened with an overabundance of ideas, it's that I usually find some way to let the new shiny ones distract me from my work on the ones that, through exploration, have become slightly less shiny.
My current RPG that has weathered the appearance of other possible projects, is called Mythic, and is an attempt to blend semi-realistic portrayals of feudal-era life with heroic action, as one sees in myths like Beowulf, the Homeric poems, or other epics.
It's a decidedly low-fantasy system, with an emphasis on heroes, superstition, and magic. It also serves as a vehicle to correct a number of things that fantasy games get wrong about the middle ages. Most of these can be summed up in one word:
SCAAAAAAAAALE.
D&D 4E, for example, states that a "small town" consists of several thousand, and large cities of several million. This is a blatant fabrication. In reality, the largest cities were scarcely larger than 5000 souls. For comparison, that is about the population of a single modern aircraft carrier.
Swords, suits of plate mail, and other implements of war were never available easily, hanging in the windows of shops. They were always expensive, and one of the biggest perks of being a knight was that your lord would provide you with arms and armor. But I digress.
The system itself uses a 2d6 roll-under system for conflict resolution. It has a resource management system for combat. There are four attributes, whose values are not chosen or randomly determined, but derived from the other traits. Character creation is partially streamlined, but that's rarely the actual limiting factor in the amount of time it takes to make a character.
I'm looking at you, henne.
Put some pants on,
-Stinja
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