Watching your video, but commenting at/around 22-minute mark and I can understand your frustration COMPLETELY! I get there myself, especially when using Mythic. May help to know that at the back of the book and before the repeated tables, there's a summary appendix that makes things a little easier.
Great video! I really appreciate your openness about your frustrations - I too am struggling with my solo roll playing toolset. I think we solo gamers ultimately have to create our own toolset that works with the way we think and play. If we continue to grow and learn, I believe that our toolset changes with us as we gain, modify and remove tools to suit our needs. I like my ugly custom d6 (no and, no, no but, yes but, yes, yes and) as my core oracle. It's not enough to be an inspiration table, but for binary questions it's quick and dirty. Inspiration tables are a must, but in a pinch a printed novel written in the genre of the game I am playing can work as well: roll some dice to determine a page and paragraph/line number for a spark (I'm certain you can work out the details.) I particularly distrust the Mythic System because it is needlessly complex. I totally understand how the author created it over many iterations, but it is not intuitive to me. It takes me out of the game flow and into page flipping for tables and explanations of tables. I feel your pain. I am currently digging into the Scene Unfolding Machine and the Plot unfolding Machine (jeansenvaars.itch.io/) as an alternative for RPGs lacking a solo mode. Another tool that I am starting appreciate is the Hex Flower Engine for persistent/incremental environment progression, specifically weather and biome conditions (www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/9524/goblin-s-henchman). Simple hex chart for conditions and I don't have to figure out how to justify why there's suddenly a blizzard in the middle of desert valley, or a swamp in the middle of the stoney mountains. (Of course in a high fantasy, crazy extremes can be fun!)
I absolutely adore the Mythic System. I won't play an RPG without it. Have you tried 1-page Mythic? It is ultra-simplified Mythic. Different strokes for different folks, ya know?
Thanks! It's a preference thing. Somehow I like to have it all in books, and I also want to learn Mythic, at least the basics which are not that complicated i think. After that I might try some other oracles and systems, and I'd also love to use that Fate Mill D20 :)
When the characters are in control, the chaos factor goes down.
I thought of apples as well when I heard orchard!
I also feel strange about using the Hazard Die every watch. I usually use it every other or so.
Watching your video, but commenting at/around 22-minute mark and I can understand your frustration COMPLETELY! I get there myself, especially when using Mythic.
May help to know that at the back of the book and before the repeated tables, there's a summary appendix that makes things a little easier.
Thanks! It's nice to know that it's normal :) Yeah, the tables in the back are great. And I like having them printed and cut out on that thick paper.
Great video! I really appreciate your openness about your frustrations - I too am struggling with my solo roll playing toolset. I think we solo gamers ultimately have to create our own toolset that works with the way we think and play. If we continue to grow and learn, I believe that our toolset changes with us as we gain, modify and remove tools to suit our needs.
I like my ugly custom d6 (no and, no, no but, yes but, yes, yes and) as my core oracle. It's not enough to be an inspiration table, but for binary questions it's quick and dirty. Inspiration tables are a must, but in a pinch a printed novel written in the genre of the game I am playing can work as well: roll some dice to determine a page and paragraph/line number for a spark (I'm certain you can work out the details.)
I particularly distrust the Mythic System because it is needlessly complex. I totally understand how the author created it over many iterations, but it is not intuitive to me. It takes me out of the game flow and into page flipping for tables and explanations of tables. I feel your pain. I am currently digging into the Scene Unfolding Machine and the Plot unfolding Machine (jeansenvaars.itch.io/) as an alternative for RPGs lacking a solo mode.
Another tool that I am starting appreciate is the Hex Flower Engine for persistent/incremental environment progression, specifically weather and biome conditions (www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/9524/goblin-s-henchman). Simple hex chart for conditions and I don't have to figure out how to justify why there's suddenly a blizzard in the middle of desert valley, or a swamp in the middle of the stoney mountains. (Of course in a high fantasy, crazy extremes can be fun!)
I absolutely adore the Mythic System. I won't play an RPG without it.
Have you tried 1-page Mythic? It is ultra-simplified Mythic.
Different strokes for different folks, ya know?
Thanks! It's a preference thing. Somehow I like to have it all in books, and I also want to learn Mythic, at least the basics which are not that complicated i think. After that I might try some other oracles and systems, and I'd also love to use that Fate Mill D20 :)
@@GustenDungeon Once you learn Mythic, you can play it with just the printed tables. It becomes second nature.