BASTIONLAND: Mythic Rivers
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
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's lots of talk of deadly combat, tactical combat, cinematic combat. The goal with Into the Odd is for combat to be Decisive . I want...| www.bastionland.com
Just got back from GenCon, so this one is fuelled by jet lag. | BASTIONLAND
Much has been discussed about the ease or deadliness of combat in Mythic Bastionland and I think the following can all be true at the same t...| www.bastionland.com
My measure of a good trap: At least one part of it is immediately visible. It allows interaction and investigation. it has impactful ...| 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
A BASTION OF ODDITY| www.bastionland.com
A BASTION OF ODDITY| www.bastionland.com
By the book, Squires get a pony, a dagger, and an okay| BASTIONLAND
Sticking this here for ease of access and update. | BASTIONLAND
Following on from last week's Slugblaster-Planescape| BASTIONLAND
I just launched MAC Attack on Backerkit.| BASTIONLAND
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
Want to learn to play MAC Attack in 16 minutes? | BASTIONLAND
Travelling between Realms usually just has you arrive in the following season. Maybe we can roll to find out what actually happened on the journey.| BASTIONLAND
I made this as an intro video for my Deep Dives , but it also serves as good mood setting for Mythic Bastionland .| www.bastionland.com
A BASTION OF ODDITY| www.bastionland.com
A BASTION OF ODDITY| www.bastionland.com
A BASTION OF ODDITY| www.bastionland.com
A BASTION OF ODDITY| www.bastionland.com
These games rely heavily on luck, bluffing, pushing luck, and other things that work well in a bar or alleyway. The most popular ones are o...| www.bastionland.com
A BASTION OF ODDITY| www.bastionland.com
So we played around with the shittiest MACs you| BASTIONLAND
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
A BASTION OF ODDITY| www.bastionland.com
What’s the smallest possible game of MAC Attack?| BASTIONLAND
How do you run a Mythic Bastionland one shot?| BASTIONLAND
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
Following on from last week, here are some events that might happen between Ages.| BASTIONLAND
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
After last week’s holiday I’m taking a little break from Mythic places, but I’ll return to that series at some point. | BASTIONLAND
Electric Bastionland puts you in debt, with a failed career, and generally assumes you've left home in order to pursue your get-out-of-debt-quick scheme.| BASTIONLAND
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 landmarks to come across.| BASTIONLAND
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, but the game is generally more focused on the larger scale of hex crawling. | BASTIONLAND
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
Bastion has been modern for a long time. This is the next step. If you can think of something from the modern world, it's here, but in ...| 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
Here's the first half of a nice handy d100 table for what I think to be interesting magic items. I'll describe the effects for each but leav...| 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
Electric Bastionland doesn't have modifiers, difficulty classes, or many of the mechanics that other games use to differentiate between an e...| www.bastionland.com
Into the Odd doesn't have many moving parts, but your game should have lots of interesting decisions to be made. For interesting choices yo...| www.bastionland.com
This series of posts has been pretty heavy going, but we're at the end now! Skip to the bottom if you want a summary of how to actually appl...| www.bastionland.com
Doctrine might be a bit strong. Still, I'm trying to keep these three words in my head whenever I'm planning or running a game. They're th...| www.bastionland.com
