thank you very much for this video. i had my first try at mythic just today and had the impression that my way of asking the questions is a little bit off and could need some tuning. i played a short deadlands adventure using swade. absolutely looking forward to the next episode! i asked mythic and it said i better leave a like and subscription! 😅
I'm familiar with SWADE, so this was easy to follow. Very helpful. Thank you. I have MGEM2E and I have been struggling with how to start with it since I've never played any of my TTRPGs solo before. I look forward to more helpful examples like this.
Culinary Roleplaying, this was truly incredible to experience. I was grinning across my face the entire time, watching as you ran over these scenarios was awe-inspiring. Prince Dareon had one of the most beautiful demonstrations of Mythic's Power I've ever seen. He seems like a good lad; I hope he gets to sit upon the throne one day. He should take some ballroom classes. He has two left feet!
this is an amazing video on Mythic! I've been bumbling about it for ageas and having fun but this video has given me more ideas! Thanks. I'd not concidered removing random events as one of the elements I have the hardest time getting my head around in game is when a random event interacts with the theme (often just closing the theme) and I had no intention of that happening which then makes me wonder if I was using themes wrong.
Yeah! You should really just tinker with it to make it suit your needs! Like one can definitely also just remove some of the random event things and just leave things that make sense as well.
Thank you for this tutorial video! I have been promoting Mythic here and there but never use it myself (I used another oracle, lol). This is informative and your example is clear enough to understand. Will be waiting for future episodes. And maybe you want to revise the "turorial" on the title😅
Word Mill has also put out a One-Page Mythic GME you can use which is just the Fate Chart and Discover Meaning tables (no Chaos Factor though you can use that if you want!) However it makes up for it's stripped down nature by having more random events when you roll doubles and you use the Discover Meaning table to generate what happens.
I am glad you found the video helpful! Yeah for better and worse Mythic has a lot of options and moving parts so knowing with what to start with and where to expand helps a bit.
Thank you so much for doing this. This is the perfect way for me to learn this system. I would absolutely love to see you cover running mysteries with Mythic. I know there is a variation that covers it. Ive been wanting to try Mythic with Call of Cthulhu and Monster of the Week, but the mystery variation of mythic seems daunting. Would you be willing to make such a video?
Thank you for the suggestion! I am right now filming the 3rd. Part of the mythic tutorial. While not giving any guarantees I have been looking into mystery gameplay using mythic. It is definitely something I am looking into!
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I haven’t watched the second part yet so I’m not sure if it’s explained there but when I was just glancing through the channel, it seemed like part 3 is not out yet. Hope you make the 3rd part (And maybe also the 4th part)!
OSR has some nice stuff as well! If you are interested in Scarlet Heroes I have a video for that as well 🤭 highly recommend picking up Scarlet Heroes it has some essential rules to solo OSR
oh it seems you have watched my SH video thanks! I also have few episodes of NPC adventures where I throw just punch of different OSR stuff together while playing a campaign.
I really like your video, also watched your 5 rpgs to play solo video. Really great stuff and of course subscribed. I hope you still plan to do part 3 for the "prewritten adventures" :) Great stuff, keep it coming.
Excellent tutorial intro for Mythic GME 2e!! Now, I understand how to approach that system and use it. I was so affraid of all these tables, all these options... I didn't knew HOW TO start with them. I also didn't understood the Chaos factor. What was that?? How to use it?? When??... Now, with your advice, I will use the simple No-Chaos table. Good!! I can't wait to use MGME2e with the Cypher System Revised!! AND with the BEAUTIFUL Fabula Ultima!! One thing about the video is that the music is a bit too high. Your voice and the music seemed to be on the same volume level. Anyway, EXCELSIOR video!!
An excellent tuturial but that music?? For me I had to pause it every few minutes but again a really good explanation, am serously considering getting it.
I would love to watch all 4 parts of mythics. You made very good guide. My recommendation is lower your background audio, since it is a distraction to your voice.
My issue with mythic was I kept rolling altered scenes and random events and spent more time figuring those out than playing the actual quest…it got boring a tedious fast. I will say I like the tiers (Likely, Unlikely, etc) which can be used in place of skill rolls very easily.
That can happen! And that's why it's nice to sometimes just not do those. Likewhen I know that the story is in intense place. I will just ignore random events. Random events are really fun, when your character, for example, travel from a place to another and then you could check if a random event happens while the time and place changes.
Weird to me that you're into Mythic enough to make a multipart tutorial of hour long videos on it, but then you're wondering about some magazine and maybe some modular rules, which sounds like you're a newcomer to Mythic yourself. There is a full Mythic RPG. It's the 1st edition Mythic book with the red cover. The 1st edition Mythic book with the blue cover is the Mythic GM Emulator with the oracle tables taken out of the original red book and made into a separate product. They then added the Creature Crafter, Location Crafter, Adventure Crafter, and Mythic Variations books and a deck of cards. Then the magazine has been going for over 3 years.
Well at least I am into Mythic GME 2nd. Edition. But I would definitely want to check out the Mythic RPG! Do you have any idea if it's on Drive-thruRPG? I am definitely quite a newcomer to Mythic myself! I have know mythic GME first edition and then bought the second one.
Curious about what software you are using for this? For the Mythic charts and SWADE character sheet, are those just trimmed screen captures you have brought into your software. How did you fill out the text on them?
Yes they are Screen captures and I am using a browser based whiteboard app called Miro. Really easy to drag and drop pictures and also nice tools to write with and such!
Great stuff and looking forward to next episodes! Was wondering if you could help me with a question.. I have been toying with trying to create a solo RPG adventure and have looked at different systems, but Im having difficulty with generating encounters with appropriate difficulty.. Any advice for instance if you are new player and you trying to decide on strength and numbers of enemies? What should your chance of success in combat in general be?
Encounter balance is at the same time the most difficult thing and also the easiest to achieve. It's easy in the sense that when playing alone, you can decide how many difficulties or enemies come across. On the other hand, encountering difficulty is very specific for every game system. So the best thing I can give you right now are just a few examples and ideas: 1) In narrative games (like Ironsowrn) the encounter difficulty is quite easy to grasp and do because the difficulty is rarely based on the individual or in "unit" strength. Narrative games tend to have more general difficulty for different things and the game focuses more on how things are happening rather than what. 2) Level-based games like DnD and Pathfinder, it is a little bit trickier because the games have been clearly balanced to have these tactical combat scenarios with different individuals. However, I have a few tips for you: A) action economy is everything, even tho how strong your character is, things rarely go well for them if they are facing multiple enemies alone. So unless your character is specialized in taking down multiple enemies, I would throw max 3 enemies against 1 PC B) This tip actually comes from the Mythic core book (and we will dive into this in part 3) but this idea of 3 works well also when thinking about encounter difficulty in level-based games because most adventures have been made for 3-4 players in mind, you can scale adventures by rising your PCs power to 3 times vs. encounter meant for 3 characters. example: you can make an encounter for 3 level 1 characters, but this encounter could be used for solo level 3 character. 3) some systems support solo characters better. If you want to use mythic I could recommend games like savage worlds, barbarians of Lemuria, scarlet heroes, advanced fighting fantasy, troika, Cyberpunk red, basically all borg games...these at least come to mind while I am writing this comment to you. PS: Dragonbane is an amazing adventure fantasy game that has its own solo rules which work wonderfully, it has its own oracle or you can easily use Mythic with it ( I have a video about Dragonbane in my channel) hopefully, you get some ideas from this comment! Stay tuned for part 3 because this is something we will probably talk about then
Now, if I can use this to run games other than D&D (Mutants and Masterminds, Pathfinder, 7th Sea, Little Fears, GURPS, Call of Cthulhu, Open Legend, Star Wars, etc. etc.), then we’re in business.
Yeah, Mythic is system agnostic. I have run/played Rolemaster, Vampire the Requiem, Scion, Hero System, Aeon Trinity and Call of Cthulhu with it. The first four as true solo games with Mythic handling the GMing, and the last two as parties with Mythic handling the "PC" group running through prewritten adventures.
@CRP-Waltteri Thank you very much. I was attempting to create a "giant JPG" and then pan around it in a browser. It was not working, so I really appreciate your help.
Not sure if I missed it, but what system are you using for the character sheet? Also, do you have any plans to go over the Mythic Role Playing system itself (the red book)? Such as its own character sheet and generation?
I am using a browser based whiteboard app called Miro, it's really handy! I have actually never read the mythic rulesystem itself! I will have to check it out and see what it's all about. Thank you for the suggestion.
Thread can be a mission, a story point or something else I feel like I want the character/s to accomplish. This can be something you decide yourself. You can also just use the Mythic GME tables to help you figure that out. Or you can use additional tables to create these goals for your character. Easiest way to create threads is just to think about one grand mission to your character (like, become a king, for example) Then you can just think about what is something, the character can do right now, in order to be closer to that goal. For example: if I am not the current noble of the family, my first thread could be just to meet with the king. Hopefully this gave you some ideas :)
Nice video but can I strongly recommend you rebalance the music volume in future videos? The volume is higher than your voice and is extremely distracting especially given the soundtrack repeats itself about 40 times over the length of the video.
Yeah thank you for the feedback. As you can see many people have already commented about this and it is something that is fixed in the future videos :)
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thank you very much for this video. i had my first try at mythic just today and had the impression that my way of asking the questions is a little bit off and could need some tuning. i played a short deadlands adventure using swade. absolutely looking forward to the next episode! i asked mythic and it said i better leave a like and subscription! 😅
Thank you for the subscription! Dice never lie!
This is a great video, really helpful. I found Mythic 2E really overwhelming, but this has helped. I'll be checking out the other parts too.
I'm glad that my video was helpful!
I definitely appreciate a break down of how exactly the table work and where they're applied.
I'm glad my video was helpful!
Can't wait for the next episodes. This was a well thought out, well explained video brother. Thanks so much!
I'm glad to hear it!
Thanks so much for making this video. It is really helpful in understanding both Mythic and Solo in general. Looking forward to more.
Can't wait for your video on how to use Mythic with prewritten adventures!
Yet another great series. I`m so glad I discovered your channel.
Glad you're here! Welcome along to this journey!
I'm familiar with SWADE, so this was easy to follow. Very helpful. Thank you. I have MGEM2E and I have been struggling with how to start with it since I've never played any of my TTRPGs solo before. I look forward to more helpful examples like this.
Culinary Roleplaying, this was truly incredible to experience. I was grinning across my face the entire time, watching as you ran over these scenarios was awe-inspiring.
Prince Dareon had one of the most beautiful demonstrations of Mythic's Power I've ever seen. He seems like a good lad; I hope he gets to sit upon the throne one day. He should take some ballroom classes. He has two left feet!
Thank you. Your comment was heart warming and I'm really glad you liked it!
this is an amazing video on Mythic! I've been bumbling about it for ageas and having fun but this video has given me more ideas! Thanks. I'd not concidered removing random events as one of the elements I have the hardest time getting my head around in game is when a random event interacts with the theme (often just closing the theme) and I had no intention of that happening which then makes me wonder if I was using themes wrong.
Yeah! You should really just tinker with it to make it suit your needs! Like one can definitely also just remove some of the random event things and just leave things that make sense as well.
Thank you for this tutorial video! I have been promoting Mythic here and there but never use it myself (I used another oracle, lol). This is informative and your example is clear enough to understand. Will be waiting for future episodes.
And maybe you want to revise the "turorial" on the title😅
Haha Fixed! Thanks for noticing! And thank you for the positive comment as well!
Word Mill has also put out a One-Page Mythic GME you can use which is just the Fate Chart and Discover Meaning tables (no Chaos Factor though you can use that if you want!)
However it makes up for it's stripped down nature by having more random events when you roll doubles and you use the Discover Meaning table to generate what happens.
Thanks for the video, the tip to focus on one story thread really helped me get comfortable using Mythic
I am glad you found the video helpful! Yeah for better and worse Mythic has a lot of options and moving parts so knowing with what to start with and where to expand helps a bit.
Thank you so much for doing this. This is the perfect way for me to learn this system.
I would absolutely love to see you cover running mysteries with Mythic. I know there is a variation that covers it. Ive been wanting to try Mythic with Call of Cthulhu and Monster of the Week, but the mystery variation of mythic seems daunting.
Would you be willing to make such a video?
Thank you for the suggestion! I am right now filming the 3rd. Part of the mythic tutorial. While not giving any guarantees I have been looking into mystery gameplay using mythic. It is definitely something I am looking into!
Thank you for video its very helpful to understand how to play solo :)
I’m surprised more people don’t use Miro for their rpg games. It’s so useful; like a virtual GM screen.
Yeah true! And even more conveniently it's completely free which always lowers the bar of entry!
Part 4, yes please!
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I haven’t watched the second part yet so I’m not sure if it’s explained there but when I was just glancing through the channel, it seemed like part 3 is not out yet. Hope you make the 3rd part (And maybe also the 4th part)!
Thank you! Part 3 is on the video pipeline! It's probably going to be out next month at the latest!
Thank you for this fun and informative video! 👍
Great video. Background music not ideal for me listening to you but that’s just me 😊
Yeah, unfortunately I would need to make this video completely again in order to fix the balance, but it is fixed in my other videos so don't worry :)
Mythic and SW in one Video nice. Have both books here. Wanted to start with SW, come to Mythic, landed at OSR 🤣
OSR has some nice stuff as well! If you are interested in Scarlet Heroes I have a video for that as well 🤭 highly recommend picking up Scarlet Heroes it has some essential rules to solo OSR
oh it seems you have watched my SH video thanks! I also have few episodes of NPC adventures where I throw just punch of different OSR stuff together while playing a campaign.
@@CRP-Waltteri a lot of vids to watch i think, thanks 😊
I really like your video, also watched your 5 rpgs to play solo video. Really great stuff and of course subscribed. I hope you still plan to do part 3 for the "prewritten adventures" :) Great stuff, keep it coming.
Thank you for the comment and sub! I have definitely plans to do the part 3 it is the next video on my list!
Excellent tutorial intro for Mythic GME 2e!! Now, I understand how to approach that system and use it. I was so affraid of all these tables, all these options... I didn't knew HOW TO start with them. I also didn't understood the Chaos factor. What was that?? How to use it?? When??... Now, with your advice, I will use the simple No-Chaos table. Good!! I can't wait to use MGME2e with the Cypher System Revised!! AND with the BEAUTIFUL Fabula Ultima!! One thing about the video is that the music is a bit too high. Your voice and the music seemed to be on the same volume level. Anyway, EXCELSIOR video!!
I'm glad if my video was helpful! And also thank you for your feedback I will definitely check my volume balance more carefully in the future.
Just found the channel, very helpful, thank you.
I'm glad! Welcome aboard and I hope you enjoy my content!
An excellent tuturial but that music??
For me I had to pause it every few minutes but again a really good explanation, am serously considering getting it.
Yeah the music volume is a bit loud in this video my apologies. It is fixed in the later parts :)
I would love to watch all 4 parts of mythics. You made very good guide. My recommendation is lower your background audio, since it is a distraction to your voice.
Thank you for your comment! I will check the Background audio more carefully next time.
My issue with mythic was I kept rolling altered scenes and random events and spent more time figuring those out than playing the actual quest…it got boring a tedious fast.
I will say I like the tiers (Likely, Unlikely, etc) which can be used in place of skill rolls very easily.
That can happen! And that's why it's nice to sometimes just not do those. Likewhen I know that the story is in intense place. I will just ignore random events.
Random events are really fun, when your character, for example, travel from a place to another and then you could check if a random event happens while the time and place changes.
Weird to me that you're into Mythic enough to make a multipart tutorial of hour long videos on it, but then you're wondering about some magazine and maybe some modular rules, which sounds like you're a newcomer to Mythic yourself.
There is a full Mythic RPG. It's the 1st edition Mythic book with the red cover. The 1st edition Mythic book with the blue cover is the Mythic GM Emulator with the oracle tables taken out of the original red book and made into a separate product. They then added the Creature Crafter, Location Crafter, Adventure Crafter, and Mythic Variations books and a deck of cards. Then the magazine has been going for over 3 years.
Well at least I am into Mythic GME 2nd. Edition. But I would definitely want to check out the Mythic RPG! Do you have any idea if it's on Drive-thruRPG?
I am definitely quite a newcomer to Mythic myself! I have know mythic GME first edition and then bought the second one.
What program did you use in video for game environment? Its very convenient, but i cant recognise
It is called Miro and it is a browser based whiteboard app. It is very handy to use indeed !
New sub. Great content.
Curious about what software you are using for this? For the Mythic charts and SWADE character sheet, are those just trimmed screen captures you have brought into your software. How did you fill out the text on them?
Yes they are Screen captures and I am using a browser based whiteboard app called Miro.
Really easy to drag and drop pictures and also nice tools to write with and such!
On my side, I use the offline OpenBoard base on Open-Sakore, an African free foundation software for institutors.
Great stuff and looking forward to next episodes! Was wondering if you could help me with a question.. I have been toying with trying to create a solo RPG adventure and have looked at different systems, but Im having difficulty with generating encounters with appropriate difficulty.. Any advice for instance if you are new player and you trying to decide on strength and numbers of enemies? What should your chance of success in combat in general be?
Encounter balance is at the same time the most difficult thing and also the easiest to achieve. It's easy in the sense that when playing alone, you can decide how many difficulties or enemies come across. On the other hand, encountering difficulty is very specific for every game system. So the best thing I can give you right now are just a few examples and ideas:
1) In narrative games (like Ironsowrn) the encounter difficulty is quite easy to grasp and do because the difficulty is rarely based on the individual or in "unit" strength. Narrative games tend to have more general difficulty for different things and the game focuses more on how things are happening rather than what.
2) Level-based games like DnD and Pathfinder, it is a little bit trickier because the games have been clearly balanced to have these tactical combat scenarios with different individuals. However, I have a few tips for you:
A) action economy is everything, even tho how strong your character is, things rarely go well for them if they are facing multiple enemies alone. So unless your character is specialized in taking down multiple enemies, I would throw max 3 enemies against 1 PC
B) This tip actually comes from the Mythic core book (and we will dive into this in part 3) but this idea of 3 works well also when thinking about encounter difficulty in level-based games because most adventures have been made for 3-4 players in mind, you can scale adventures by rising your PCs power to 3 times vs. encounter meant for 3 characters.
example: you can make an encounter for 3 level 1 characters, but this encounter could be used for solo level 3 character.
3) some systems support solo characters better. If you want to use mythic I could recommend games like
savage worlds, barbarians of Lemuria, scarlet heroes, advanced fighting fantasy, troika, Cyberpunk red, basically all borg games...these at least come to mind while I am writing this comment to you.
PS: Dragonbane is an amazing adventure fantasy game that has its own solo rules which work wonderfully, it has its own oracle or you can easily use Mythic with it ( I have a video about Dragonbane in my channel)
hopefully, you get some ideas from this comment! Stay tuned for part 3 because this is something we will probably talk about then
Now, if I can use this to run games other than D&D (Mutants and Masterminds, Pathfinder, 7th Sea, Little Fears, GURPS, Call of Cthulhu, Open Legend, Star Wars, etc. etc.), then we’re in business.
Yes you definitely can! The oracle is very universal.
Yeah, Mythic is system agnostic. I have run/played Rolemaster, Vampire the Requiem, Scion, Hero System, Aeon Trinity and Call of Cthulhu with it. The first four as true solo games with Mythic handling the GMing, and the last two as parties with Mythic handling the "PC" group running through prewritten adventures.
Just wondering @culinary rollplaying. What are you useing to place all of your sheets on? Is it google something?
It is a browser based whiteboard app called Miro.com
@CRP-Waltteri Thank you very much. I was attempting to create a "giant JPG" and then pan around it in a browser. It was not working, so I really appreciate your help.
Not sure if I missed it, but what system are you using for the character sheet? Also, do you have any plans to go over the Mythic Role Playing system itself (the red book)? Such as its own character sheet and generation?
I am using a browser based whiteboard app called Miro, it's really handy!
I have actually never read the mythic rulesystem itself! I will have to check it out and see what it's all about. Thank you for the suggestion.
You started with a thread... How did you get that?
Thread can be a mission, a story point or something else I feel like I want the character/s to accomplish. This can be something you decide yourself. You can also just use the Mythic GME tables to help you figure that out. Or you can use additional tables to create these goals for your character.
Easiest way to create threads is just to think about one grand mission to your character (like, become a king, for example)
Then you can just think about what is something, the character can do right now, in order to be closer to that goal.
For example: if I am not the current noble of the family, my first thread could be just to meet with the king.
Hopefully this gave you some ideas :)
Nice video but can I strongly recommend you rebalance the music volume in future videos? The volume is higher than your voice and is extremely distracting especially given the soundtrack repeats itself about 40 times over the length of the video.
Yeah thank you for the feedback. As you can see many people have already commented about this and it is something that is fixed in the future videos :)