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A Suggestion

Mythusmage Today Posted on October 22, 2019 by MythusmageOctober 22, 2019

That we criminalize greed. We would have four degrees of criminal greed, these being...

  1. Greed in the third degree: Charging $8 for a gallon of milk for example.
  2. Greed in the second degree: The small front wheels on a folding cart for example.
  3. Greed in the first degree: Doing the absolute minimum required by law.
  4. Aggravated Greed: Charging very high prices for necessary medicine.

Oil companies would fall under Greed in the 3rd degree, a city like San Diego Ca Greed in the First Degree. Fines would go towards providing the poor with what they need.

The greedy won't spend the money, then they get encouraged to.

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Promotion

Mythusmage Today Posted on September 27, 2019 by MythusmageSeptember 27, 2019

Over in the Reddit's RPG forum I caught a thread in which the commenters get blabbing on and on about how complicated your sales pitch has to be. Seeing as the thread had been closed I made a post at Reddit in which I basically said, "No you don't." But so far no response.

I have the feeling that all too many people have to insist on making things complicated when they don't need to be complicated. When you want to sell something to a party, keep it short and keep it simple.

Use an elevator pitch. One I remember was, "Wagon Train in out space." Gene Roddenberry offered that when pitching the original Star Trek. These days it might be something like, "Hogwarts as an American high school. ' Or, "Star Trek in a 17th century Pacific Ocean complete with Klingons and Vulcans."

Now let your imagination run riot.

And since it just might work.

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Have You Considered?

Mythusmage Today Posted on May 24, 2019 by MythusmageMay 24, 2019

That yes, they are games, but they have damn all to do with role playing. You can role play in one, but that's not really what they're for. What they are for is achieving goals, the role playing is just something you can do but don't really have to. Your play can be entirely mechanistic, emoting is entirely something else.

My experience in this matter goes back to 1976, when my prestidigitator (now a word) character found himself faced with a dragon. Knowing I was out matched I backed off. The greatly amused dragon let him go, knowing full well that a 1st level MU was just no challenge. (Then there was the fact the DM playing the dragon was greatly amused.) A bit later I talked a balrog into almost killing the dragon for me (I lied outrageously), which lead to my PC getting tons of loot and 8 7th level dwarven henchmen (different mechanics concerning henchmen back in those days).

My experience was, it matters more how you handle a situation than what you can handle. And that your goal is really to amuse the guide.

Years later I read about an encounter in the adventure Necropolis for Mythus. (Spoiler) The encounter involved a demon driven insane by long incarceration by the big bad in a room in a crypt. Said demon really had no trouble taking care of the party, but he was more interested in using them to stymie his foe. So he told them how they could escape, and what they needed to do to defeat the villain Rahotep. Note that they could escape his room, he just couldn't.

From these two incidents I learned that you can handle matters differently, and that how you handle things can profit you. You have more tools than just your weapons, and more alternatives than just mindless violence. And I first learned this when I was 20, an age when boys are nitwits by and large. To put this simply, this is why I much prefer to treat them as guides to adventure, because that's really what they are. Adventure Guides is what I'd rather call them, for in my experience treating them as such works a lot better than insisting on them as games.

So use your initiative and be flexible. You're there to have fun, not to slavishly follow some thoughtless regulations.

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I'm getting close to 3,000 subscribers to this blog. But seeing as they are excessively shy they haven't told me why. What the heck am I doing right?

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