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A Forever Waltz

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One Shot Open Table Play Report Mythic Bastionland The Fanged Knight The Amber Knight Myths No omens occurred in this session, but the following myths were used for content: The Sprite The River The Dead Prologue The previous session ended with the Company retrieving the Keystone, wherein a ruler was trapped (think Han Solo in carbonite). This session was going to see the knights freeing Lady Bellamonte, the unlucky victim inside. For prep I worked out 2 options: Freeing her by water, this would require a climb up a mountain and navigating a site. The other required a visit to the Dwarf who had recently come to the realm after the Colossus was slain. I accidentally left my iPad at home, I generally use it for showing players the map, so I made an executive decision and that the Dwarf would remain undisturbed, at least for today. The players liked the idea of the Lady's love interest playing a role. And they really latched on to the idea of her having fallen for someone of lower bu...
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Foul Moving Castle

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One Shot Open Table Play Report Mythic Bastionland The Fanged Knight The Amber Knight The Bone Knight The Leaf Knight Myths The Legion Prologue I started by asking the players what they wanted to do this session and the players soon decided that there was a moving castle so ugly that it's existence was unwarranted. Sweat pouring down my brow I scoured the Myths to find something that would fit for I couldn't see the castle plot point filling more than 30 minutes in a 3-hour-session. The players suggested more narrative elements and were, to my dismay, trending towards Disney-esque. Which is something that I don't enjoy as much as Arthurian/mythological. But I landed on the Legion as a good jumping off point for the session. The Company had recently freed one of the four missing rulers from supernatural imprisonment, and we decided that should happen again today. The recently freed ruler had, in his supernatural cell, learned the way to locate the Moving Castle. This info w...
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Maximising Omens and Myths

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Maximising Omens and Myths Advice for running Mythic Bastionland An ongoing attempt to maximise narrative potential. I would like to think that over time I have developed a specific style of running the  award-winning  game Mythic Bastionland. This is the first post out of 3 or so where I’ll summarise some things I do that I think might be of use to others. Chris McDowall has an almost obscene love for doing things in 3's and as an ode this blogpost will present things in 3's as much as possible. The Wyvern will be used as an example throughout. The first omen from the Demon and from the Wight are also included. So spoilers obviously follow. I. Expanding Omens The book does a pretty good job of presenting omens in an evocative way. Nonetheless, having a procedure to assist improvisation can help. This section shows how to do that by asking three W-Questions , by thinking about Chronology and finally by Cross-Pollinating Myths !  The Three W-Questions The following q...
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Returning Grey

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One Shot Open Table Play Report Mythic Bastionland The Fanged Knight Squire Suzy Myths The Catacomb The Cave The Demon Prologue Two returning players! One player had previously been the Salt Knight. But the Salt Knight died horrifically and the player had continued with Suzy, who was to take on the role of squire today. It seemed fitting to all at the table that this session should see her take a more prominent role in helping the realm, followed by her being knighted. Her backstory was that her hamlet (002.003) had been ravaged when she was but a child and that today's session would play into that somehow. This is cool backstory but didn't answer the question of how today's session would start. So I gave some suggestions and we decided the party would begin at the Fetid Sanctum (004.001) and would see the Company escort an acolyte to Windswept Spire (004.006). There was something buried there and the acolyte would help find it and help convince the locals that this diggin...
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Woland - A Collaborative Mythic Realm - Part 12 - 14

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  This is part of an ongoing project that you can read about here . Part XII - The Devil's Spine The Devil's Spine dropped about a week ago on this blog. I am just mentioning it here because I have now added the hexmap to the realm map. Check out the post here . Part XIII - Tide's Edge This entry is created by 1pagedungeons (creator of a very cool Whale myth). With the oyster Seer and some Holland-inspired terrain. Read it here . Part XIV - The Rainlands Tucked away in the south eastern corner is an area that came to life using Tarot cards. You can find it here . Progress Map And here's the map update. It's really coming together !  Would you like to participate? Let me know here . ---
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