Mythic's oracle-style question resolution system revolutionized solo role-playing. The Second Edition of the Mythic Game Master Emulator updates the ground-breaking 2003 ruleset with essential new additions, a wide range of options to customize your adventures, and numerous refinements.
This new edition contains:
- A revised and simplified Fate Chart for faster and more intuitive Fate Question resolution.
- The new Fate Check system, receive answers without a chart.
- Numerous rules refinements and enhancements taking into account two decades worth of Mythic player experiences.
- Many options for fine-tuning Mythic to get the kind of role-playing experience you want.
- 47 Meaning Tables to add just the right detail to your adventures when you need it.
Mythic Magazine #48
Mythic Magazine #48 brings a combination of light and relaxing, with heroic and epic. This issue contains:
Cozy Solo: Chill out with solo adventures that focus on peace, tranquility, and feel-good energy!
Steal The Rebellion!: This complete mini-RPG sends you off on a high-stakes heist to topple an empire and save the galaxy!
Mythic GME Mobile App
The app is back! Bring your Mythic adventures on the go with the Mythic Game Master Emulator 2nd Edition mobile app. This comprehensive tool brings the power of the Mythic system to your fingertips.
Mythic Magazine Compilation #7 Now Available In PDF On DriveThruRPG!
The 7th Compilation brings together issues #37-42 into one big book with 12 articles! Rules expansions in this collection includes Solo Setting & World Creation System, 3-Act Structure For Mythic Adventures, NPC Evolving Motivations, and lots more!
Mythic Magazine #47 Now Available In PDF On DriveThruRPG!
Issue #47 brings mysteries to life with "One-Page Mystery Crafter", and explores strengthening the bond with your Player Characters to keep you coming back with "Making Characters You Can Connect With".
Mythic Magazine Compilation #6 Is Now Available In Print On DriveThruRPG!
The sixth Compilation includes Mythic Magazine issues #31-36. The print options include Hardcover and Softcover, Premium Color and Standard Color.
Mythic Magazine #46
Mythic Magazine is a monthly ezine with tips, rules, and more goodies for the Mythic Role-Playing System, Mythic Game Master Emulator, and Crafter Series.
This issue contains:
Star System Creator: This is a system for generating star systems and their points of interest, including planets and mysterious elements. It includes name generators and events that take place when exploring the system.
Solo Adventures In The Style Of Found Journals: Transport your Mythic adventures into the found journal and found footage genre with simple guidelines and rules that bring out the found journal flavor. Found journal adventures can stand on their own or serve as interludes in a larger adventure.
Mythic Magazine #45
Mythic Magazine is a monthly ezine with tips, rules, and more goodies for the Mythic Role-Playing System, Mythic Game Master Emulator, and Crafter Series.
This issue contains:
One-Page Character Crafter: Roll up Characters quickly with Descriptors, providing NPC's whenever you need them.
Magical Tradition Generator: Make mystic organizations, complete with history, spells, a unique look and feel, and other details to make them come alive.
Mythic Magazine #44
Mythic Magazine is a monthly ezine with tips, rules, and more goodies for the Mythic Role-Playing System, Mythic Game Master Emulator, and Crafter Series.
This issue contains:
The Crypts of Kozen Crest: This is a solo fantasy classic dungeon crawl quest. While this can be used as a standalone adventure, it's also a random dungeon generator for any fantasy game.
Running Solo Slice Of Life Adventures: Strategies for how to get an everyday, slice of life experience from a solo adventure.
Mythic Magazine #43
Mythic Magazine is a monthly ezine with tips, rules, and more goodies for the Mythic Role-Playing System, Mythic Game Master Emulator, and Crafter Series.
This issue contains:
Creating Game Loops In Solo Play: Translate familiar game loops, recurring action patterns that are fun to play through, into your Mythic adventures.
Writing Fiction With Mythic: Use your solo roleplaying skills to write a novel, or take the techniques in this article and make your solo play as narratively rich as possible.
Mythic Magazine #42
Mythic Magazine is a monthly ezine with tips, rules, and more goodies for the Mythic Role-Playing System, Mythic Game Master Emulator, and Crafter Series from Word Mill Games.
This issue contains:
Dealing With Solo Play Fatigue: An overview of common problems that keep us from solo roleplaying, with strategies for overcoming them.
3-Act Structure For Mythic Adventures: Apply the classic 3-act story structure to Mythic's freeform adventure generation to give your games more narrative energy.
Mythic Magazine Compilation #5 Print Editions Available On DriveThruRPG
Mythic Magazine Compilation #5, including issues 25 through 30, is now available in softcover and hardcover editions through DriveThruRPG.
Options include premium and standard color versions.
This compilation contains some of Mythic Magazine's most popular articles, including One-Page Mythic and One-Page Adventure Crafter!
Happy adventuring!
Mythic Magazine #41 PDF Available On DriveThruRPG
This issue contains:
The Villain Crafter: Rules for generating villains by archetype, to quickly bring their nefarious schemes, organizations, lieutenants, and minions into your solo adventures.
Mythic As A Player Emulator: Switch roles with Mythic and play as Game Master with emulated Players and Characters. Suggestions for how to make this work.
Mythic Magazine #40 PDF Available On DriveThruRPG
This issue contains:
Meaning Table Collections - Horror & Mystery: Take themed Meaning generation to a new level of detail with these two collections of Meaning Tables tuned toward Horror and Mystery adventures.
Rules & Tools For Science Fiction Adventures: Boldly take your adventures where no adventure has gone before with this simple framework for generating sci-fi content as you go. Plus, quick and easy rules for ship to ship combat and damage.
COMING SOON:
Mythic Roleplaying Second Edition
The Mythic "red book" is getting an update, combining the GM emulator rules from Mythic Game Master Emulator Second Edition with roleplaying mechanics for a full solo RPG.
Play in any genre with any character, generating not only adventures but entire worlds, settings, and the rules that define them as you play.
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New Actual Play Added To The Resources Page:
A Wasteland Story
A fallout solo-rpg podcast
Find more actual plays, as well as other goodies like downloads and reviews, check out the Resources Page.
Italian Language Edition Of Mythic GME 2e From Need Games!
Popular Italian TTPRG publisher Need Games has released a translated edition of Mythic Game Master Emulator Second Edition! You can find it here.
Tabletop Bro Plays Mythic For The First Time
This is a great actual play video of a seasoned role-player trying solo play for the first time. He's using Dungeon World with Mythic first edition.
Coming Soon: Micro Mythic, Super Simple Solo Roleplaying
Micro Mythic is the One-Pagizing of core Mythic and Crafter rules, to give you the most streamlined and complete version of the ruleset all packed together. There are 9 individual One-Page rulesets, which is everything you need to play. Use them individually, or all together for a complete RPG! The rest of the book provides suggestions for additional uses, and lots of examples.
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Mythic Magazine Index
Click the link above for a thorough index of Mythic Magazine articles broken down by subject. Thank you Robin for making this!
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Marketplace Author Pages
Got a favorite place you like to pick up your roleplaying treasures? Word Mill Games books can be found at a number of online marketplaces. The links below lead to Tana Pigeon's author pages.
Want To Make Mythic Stuff?
Most Word Mill Games books are attached to a non-commercial Creative Commons license to make it easier for players to make community content.
A Mighty Mythic Collection!
Curious about older issues of Mythic Magazine?
Click here to check out the full collection!
Season 4 Of Me, Myself, & Die
Trevor Devall has launched a new season of his amazing actual play show, featuring his own creation of the Broken Empires RPG used with Mythic GME 2e!
Get New Monthly Content With Mythic Magazine!
Mythic Magazine presents new rules and ideas for Mythic and Crafter gameplay.
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Download Suggestions
See a form in one of the books or magazine issues that you'd like to download from the Resources page, but it isn't there? Send me a note requesting it and I'll get it there as soon as I can!
Exchange Ideas With Mythic Players Online
Join other Mythic players for tips, discussions, and more Mythic goodness on Discord, Reddit, and Groups.io!
Mythic Downloads & Tutorials
Find useful downloads, like form-fillable PDF files for Mythic sheets, in the Resources section. You can also find links to online tutorials and actual plays so you can watch solo roleplaying in action!
RESOURCES
Mythic & Crafter Books, PDF & Print
Downloadable PDFs and printed Mythic and Crafter books can be found at DriveThruRPG.com and Amazon.
The popularity of solo and GM-less RPG play has grown ever since.
The Mythic system has been expanded with further books offering additional options for your solo RPG experience. The monthly ezine Mythic Magazine regularly presents new rules and tips.
Word Mill Games has also released the Crafter Series of books, designed to give Game Masters more tools to make adventure creation quick and fun.
Mythic Magazine is available for automatic monthly delivery through Patreon, or you can find individual copies on DriveThruRPG.com as they become available.
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