BASTIONLAND: Building Bastionland - A Career Retrospective
I’ve been making games professionally for long enough now that people sometimes ask me how I got here. I don’t really know the answer, but ...| www.bastionland.com
A BASTION OF ODDITY| www.bastionland.com
I’ve been making games professionally for long enough now that people sometimes ask me how I got here. I don’t really know the answer, but ...| www.bastionland.com
A BASTION OF ODDITY| www.bastionland.com
Here's what the rules of Mythic Bastionland have to say: PRIMACY OF ACTION Even when using the rules for travel, exploration, and combat...| www.bastionland.com
You’ll have noticed that if you stick around a holding in Mythic Bastionland then the land is, well, less mythic. In fact, Myths kind of pau...| www.bastionland.com
A BASTION OF ODDITY| www.bastionland.com
Not The River, of course. A typical Mythic Bastionland realm, following the procedure in the book, has a navigable river. It’s an extremely...| www.bastionland.com
There are essays about this, so I'm not about to add my own to the mix. Instead, just a couple of thoughts that always come to mind when I t...| www.bastionland.com
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A BASTION OF ODDITY| www.bastionland.com
If you play in any of my in-person groups, turn back now! No huge spoilers, but stuff that would be more fun to discover in game. Okay? Righ...| www.bastionland.com
And finally, Mythic Pigeons| bastionland.substack.com
And Bastionland Broadcasting Returns| bastionland.substack.com
Bastiards of the electric epoch are known for their badly designed dice games , but what about the knights, vassals, and vagabonds of the my...| www.bastionland.com
Old characters in Mythic Bastionland stand a chance of just dying off-screen between Ages. But what happened to that person? Roll d66 11: T...| www.bastionland.com
Mythic Bastionland assumes that you’ll advance through the Seasons, and likely through the Ages, seeing your Knights grow old and maybe die ...| www.bastionland.com
The next two landmarks will be the overtly bad ones. No positive spin on this, a Hazard is just a place you want to avoid. Unless... Well, l...| www.bastionland.com
Described as places of inspiration. Spending a phase here restores Spirit, so they’re typically one of the most straightforwardly beneficial...| www.bastionland.com
Each Sanctum is a sacred home to a seer. They are typically mysterious by nature, so by expanding this sanctum into a site we can make it di...| www.bastionland.com
I have a handful of games that I don't want to outright review, but would like to talk about briefly. Because I'm away for the next few we...| www.bastionland.com
I've always been aware of Paranoia , but I only played it for the first time at Grogmeet in December. Its reputation as a silly game of b...| www.bastionland.com
Sites read like a bit of a side-dish in Mythic Bastionland . I wanted to include a simple little system to create more zoomed-in locations, ...| www.bastionland.com
I recently ran Paranoia, my third time through a very loose scenario that I’d prepared, using my hacked version of the current edition. Al...| www.bastionland.com
As with the trade system, I think any space travel system prompts the question "okay but why?" You've got niche stuff like "how many hours d...| www.bastionland.com
What's it like trading goods among the living stars? MONEY AND POWER Small currencies aren’t tracked in the game. Major transactions use ste...| www.bastionland.com
Four years ago, I wrote about my history with miniature games and getting back into them during the lockdown. Summer 1995 saw me seduced by...| www.bastionland.com
