This is the complete film, part of which was aired on TV back in 1967. Patty doesn't show up until the latter half. I have to ask myself, what suit?
Number of dice
Type of die:
Modifier
Result:
Pondering Death
When I consider all the times in my existence I have died I have to ask just when is Death going to get the hint?
The Merchant
We return to my series on magick on a fantasy setting and the City Builder work From Mike Varhola. Now officially the fund raiser is done and a success, but I do encourage you to send in a preorder for when the book is released. In any case we'll be taking a look at the subject of chapter 6, the merchant.
In a nutshell a merchant is interested in goods, suppliers, and customers. For the most part he is a distributor, focusing in items of value and items most producers don't have the resources to handle beyond the immediate area. For this reason the merchant will focus on magick dealing with information, preservation, and security. The proprietor of a scroll shop for instance will be most interested in magick that helps him verify an item, keep it safe from damage, and secure it against theft. The owner of a brokerage will be most interested in magick helping him investigate an offer or a potential customer or source.
Sheila the Grump owns a pawn shop. She uses divination to learn what she can about a customer seeking a loan, and the item he's putting up as collateral. In addition, truly valuable items are under a dweomer that warns of impending danger. Finally, she has incense enchanted to calm a customer constantly smoldering in a dish.
Coming up we have Service Places
Wiki Work
I'm working on the wiki again, and this time around I've done some work on the organization. Not all of it, but I do have a few things done. For you I now present what I have done in terms of the organization.
- Mythus
- Introduction
- What Mythus Is
- What Mythus isn’t
- The Player
- The Guide
- Persona
- What A Persona is
- Player’s: Heroic Persona
- Guide’s: Other Persona
- Creating Persona
- Deciding on Gender
- Determining Social Class
- Species
- Race
- Quirks
- Age
- Determining Statistics
- Choose Vocation
- Additional Information
- Resources
- What A Persona is
- Mechanics
- Procedure
- Conflict
- Setting
- Encounters
- Introduction
Long aint it? And it's going to get longer
Update: And the wiki didn't work out, so I'm doing it as a set of pages.
A Malevolent Mutation: Mucking With the Mechanics
So I've had a look at the AG Zweihander and I've concluded that where the fighting mechanics are concerned it's too dang abstract. The guide's author is right in that the typical AG makes injury just too abstract what with their limited hit points and all that, and his attempt to present a descriptive scheme for wounds is commendable, but it just doesn't work.
So I've decided to have a look at how Mythus handles injury and harm and I've come to the conclusion that it does offer openings for adjustment.
Now in Mythus a Persona will have a Physical Trait ranging from 36 (a real wimp) to 180 (a gnarly dude) points. Injuries can range from just 1 point, to more than 200 depending on circumstances. So I decided to try setting the amount of damage done to a Persona as a ratio of PTrait. Your HP has taken half damage for instance, he functions at half capability. So Bob has a PTrait of 90 and he's taken 44 points of "ouch". 44/90ths factors out to be 22/45ths, and as near as I can figure it means that Bob functions are at 48% of his normal capability. Don't you hate reality?
You can adapt this to your favorite engine, but it could be a fair amount of tinkering. Tinker away.
What is Mythus?
The first thing is, Mythus is not a game. Far as I can see not a single so called RPG qualifies as a game. The RPGs I've seen are complex, complicated, and essentially unlimited. A game is more properly limited, constrained if you like. A limited field of play, limited actions, limited goals. In something like Mythus the possibilities are not constrained, but rather nearly unlimited.
The term I prefer for such as Mythus is "Adventure Guide" (AG). A guide to adventure, and more particularly to adventuring in an imaginary world. A guide to playing the role of a person living in an imaginary world, and a person who tends to find himself in the sort of situations that could put your life in dire peril. Or which are just damned inconvenient.
Just as important, "RPGs" can not be about story telling. They do have elements of story, but given that you cannot reliably predict how an adventure will turn out they can't involve story. Just too unpredictable. "Story" is about predestination, RPGs are about free will.
In short Mythus is a guide to adventure, an Adventure Guide (AG). A guide to playing a role in an imaginary world, a fantasy world where goblins dance in seedy dives, elves lecture on metaphysics at the local college, and rakshasas give financial advice. Mythus is about life, and life can be adventurous. That's how I approach things and how I will handle matter in my upcoming wiki.
And please note that AGs don't have rules, they have mechanics. They have an engine or system consisting of the mechanics that describe how the AG works. Rules are prescriptive, mechanics are descriptive. Mechanics tell you how things work, and you can't cheat in all reality. (Yes, I have tried flying by jumping out off a window while wearing a cape. I was 8 and it was fun.)
So forget about all that crap about game and story and just have a good adventure. And remember that adventures aren't always voluntary and sometimes they come to you.
I am so Ready…
...To punt the fuss budgets a mile. People, stop making things so complicated
Not so Fast
Turns out the character who put together the interface for Apple News is a Microsoft Reject. The interface is just a bitch. So I won't be publishing through AN.
Guess What I Did?
I am now a publisher, provisionally speaking, publishing through Apple News. Can't really promise anything, or even that you'll like everything I write, but now you have another place to find my gabbling. More jibber-jabber coming up.
A Request
I have started work on a Mythus Wiki, at present I'm setting it up and that means organizing it. The basic organization is...
- Mythus
- Introduction
- Persona
- Mechanics
- Magick
- Settings
- Encounters
Mechanics will include the engine behind fighting in a Mythus setting.
My problem is, how do I sub-divide it. What chapters and sub-chapters do I include? Something like a Mythus wiki needs to be planned instead of improvised.